This week in North Philly Notes, we present the new issue of our journal, Kalfou.
Special Issue: “In These Uncertain Times, Pittsburgh”
Guest Editors: Leon Ford and Deanna Fracul
FEATURE ARTICLES
Introduction: In These Uncertain Times, Pittsburgh • Deanna Fracul and Leon Ford
Uncertainty, Discourse, and Democracy in John Edgar Wideman’s Writing, 1980s to Today • Leila Kamali
Call-and-Response in the City: Embodied Mercy in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone • Kathy Glass
Resisting Arrest: Race and Pittsburghers’ Struggles against Police Power from the 1840s through the 1950s • Elaine Frantz
Tomorrow Never Came • Jamaal Scott
Working Together for Health Equity: How a Multidisciplinary, Community-Engaged Partnership Reframed Our Understandings of Pittsburgh’s Maternal-Child Health Crisis • Cathleen J. Appelt, Andrew T. Simpson, Jessica A. Devido, Sarah Greenwald, and Brittany Urban
Pittsburgh, the Realest City: Shit Talk’n’, Storytell’n’, Social Livin’ • Jacqueline Roebuck Sakho
IDEAS, ART, AND ACTIVISM
TALKATIVE ANCESTORS
Derrick Bell on Living in Relation to Others
KEYWORDS
Frankstown Was the World with a Big W: Pittsburgh and Beyond, an Interview with John Edgar Wideman • Leila Kamali
LA MESA POPULAR
Black Lives and the Tree of Life • Emmai Alaquiva and Lauren Apter Bairnsfather
ART AND SOCIAL ACTION
East Pittsburgh: White Supremacy, Radical Relationships, and Chosen Family • Norman Conti
MOBILIZED 4 MOVEMENT
Where Have All the Black Revolutionaries Gone in Steel City? An Interview with Sala Udin • Tony Gaskew
TEACHING AND TRUTH
Redreaming Boundaries and Community Engagement: John Edgar Wideman and the Homewood Reading Series • Esohe Osai and Dan Kubis
Khalifa • Richard Khalifa Diggs, with postscript by Norman Conti
IN MEMORIAM
Memorial Quilt: Patchworked Remembrances of Those Stolen from Us • Mian Laubscher, Lauren Apter Bairnsfather, and Keith David Miles
REVIEW
A City Divided: Race, Fear, and the Law in Police Confrontations, by David A. Harris • Jesse S. G. Wozniak
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MOBILIZED 4 MOVEMENT
Scholar Collectives Advocating for Social Justice in Education • Lois A. Yamauchi, Joni B. Acuff, Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Bill Ayers, Margarita Berta-Ávila, Kari Kokka, Kevin Kumashiro, Therese Quinn, Colleen Rost-Banik, and Katherine Schultz
IN MEMORIAM
The People’s Artist: In Loving Memory of Eugene Eda Wade, 1939–2021 • Hannah Jeffery
REVIEW
Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration, by Ashley E. Lucas • Chinua Thelwell
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