Poverty Policing Pandemic
An urgent poem for these times of rebellion.
Demetrius Noble (better known as D. Noble) is an activist, teacher and radical cultural worker. He currently serves as a professor in the African American & Diaspora Studies department at University of North Carolina Greensboro. His work has been published in The African American Review, The Journal of Pan African Studies, The Journal of Black Masculinity, Works and Days, Cultural Logic, Red Wedge and other leftist digital and print publications.
The documentary film What Binds Us to This Place illuminates North Carolina's rich history of antiracist struggle and points a way forward for our collective liberation today.