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Rolanda JW Spencer

Rolanda Spencer is a sociologist and justice studies professor. She serves as a project-based editor and writes news, healing, culture and re-entry.

Welcome home Brittney Griner. Time for radical self-care in your re-entry

December 12, 2022January 16, 2023
Sports

Griner’s release marks the beginning of a long process of healing from incarceration. Her predicament illuminates how formerly incarcerated people experience reintegration

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Woman shot at Black Lives Matter protest in New Orleans

June 11, 2020June 12, 2020
Crime

Anti-black violence protest ends tragically.

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The changing of San Francisco’s food, culture and identity

October 22, 2019December 10, 2019
Gentrification/Major Collaborative Project

Ark Republic followed up with Chef Wanda Blake on food culture in San Francisco. Through the waves of gentrification since the late

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Blaxit: An Exodus in Los Angeles

October 1, 2019March 6, 2021
Gentrification

Through forced migration and gentrification, which promised a better life, Black folks in Los Angeles, in the early 80s, met resistance and

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Even those who attempted to smear his legacy had not a single leg to stand on | Think Piece

April 12, 2019September 11, 2019
Major Collaborative Project/Nipsey Hussle

We hear about celebrities dying pretty often, and I always do the same thing. Call my cousin, say, “damn that’s too bad”

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