Lake Micah Lake Micah is a writer on literature and the arts.

Far-Flung Commiserators | Jubilee Gestures and Revolutionary Stirrings in Black Lives Matter

Lake Micah

“This is the fire that terrifies our pitiful enemies. That not only are we alive but shatteringly precise in our songs and our scorn.”—Amiri Baraka “But what I'd like to know / Is could a place like this exist, so beautiful?”—Stevie Wonder The condition of our history is one of abject reduction—to metonyms and to misapprehensions, to causes and to effects, to trite little truisms: a surfeit of errant narratives...