Devyn Springer

Butter.ATL • 1st December 2021

James Baldwin’s Enduring Relevance To Atlanta

In 1979 Walter Lowe, Jr, the first Black editor at Playboy, called his literary hero James Baldwin in France to convince him to cover something that had began to capture the American public’s attention: the Atlanta Child Murders. As the story goes,...

Butter.ATL • 19th November 2021

Why Remembering ATL's Native American History Is So Important

The area that would eventually become the Atlanta we know and love, situated beside the Chattahoochee River, was originally inhabited by the Creek and Cherokee Native tribes. The space where Peachtree Creek — one of Atlanta’s major tributaries — flows...

Protean Magazine • 3rd November 2020

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The Independent • 1st June 2020

Killer Mike, T.I. and Atlanta's Black Misleadership Class

The entire spectacle was a mishmash of scolding, empty political sloganeering, tone-deaf pleads for “peace” in response to systemic state violence, and the treachery of the Black misleadership class. In his 2018 article, Black Agenda Report executive...

Shadowproof • 12th May 2020

Street Medics See Cuba As A Model For COVID-19 Response In Vulnerable Communities

Prevention is key to the successes of Cuba’s free and universal healthcare system, which is a direct result of the revolution’s progress. Some of their health achievements include one of the highest doctor-patient ratios in the world, a higher life...

Wear Your Voice • 21st February 2020

George Washington Carver: Touching Infinity

Cursory research into the life of Carver reveals a sort of apolitical figure, someone who cared about peanuts and plants and little more. This could not be further from the truth.

The Independent • 5th December 2019

If you think calling Kamala Harris a cop was racist, you need to talk to black feminists

To be certain, Kamala Harris faces obstacles of oppression and perception as a black woman; few would argue against this. At the same time, however — to put it into her own words — Kamala is California’s “top cop.” As the 32nd Attorney General of...

Wear Your Voice • 22nd November 2019

A Primer On Bolivia’s US-Backed Coup

“I am resigning just so that my sisters and brothers, leaders and authorities of the movement towards socialism, are not harassed, persecuted, and threatened,” Evo Morales, the democratically elected president of Bolivia, told the world in his somber...

Academia • 12th November 2019

Groundings: A Revolutionary Pan-African Pedagogy for Guerilla Intellectuals

Walter Rodney’s utilization and subsequent coining of the “groundings” pedagogical model, along with his conceptualization of the "guerilla intellectual", are among the most potent manifestations of a (Black) critical pedagogy or educational praxis...

Mondoweiss • 30th September 2019

The illusion of electoral politics from Palestine to Black America

Electoral politics are asked to carry that which they cannot hold; or possibly more aptly, electoral politics are made to be the face of a change which they’ve never known. As the elections in Israel and the possible ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu as...

Mondoweiss • 28th August 2019

A look at Washington DC’s Museum of the Palestinian People

A feeling of family welcomes you when you walk into the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington DC. Conversations flow, anecdotes and oral histories echo all around. Walls covered with pictures show faces and legacies that invite...

PAPER Magazine • 9th January 2019

The Violent Implications of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Shows

Despite the shallow gimmick of the film's interactive style, Bandersnatch raises for me a number of pressing social and political questions. Important in analyzing any film is paying close attention to the way violence is framed — the way the director...

Truthout • 25th October 2018

DeRay Mckesson's Misguided Case for Hope

There are two histories which have always battled each other, publicly and loudly: domination’s history—the history of the class in position to dominate the masses—and the people’s history, which is the history of colonized and oppressed peoples...

RaceBaitR • 24th July 2018

What 'Sorry To Bother You' Says About Violence And Capitalism

Sorry To Bother You illustrates the anxiousness of our dispossessed future, painting with vivid colors an absurd, afro-surrealist, and sporadically sci-fi picture of that vampiric falling empire Bob Marley sung about.

Mondoweiss • 20th April 2018

The symbol of political prisoners resonates beyond borders

Among all movements of oppressed people, but particularly those of Black and Palestinian people, political prisoners become the face and embodiment of this unjust carcerality, recognizable figures from Angela Davis’ afro to Ahed Tamimi’s smile. We...

Workers World • 10th April 2018

How I remember Winnie Madikizela Mandela

News broke on April 2 that Winnie Madikizela Mandela, revolutionary South African anti-apartheid activist, died at age 81. Also known by her birth name, Zanyiwe Madikizela, Winnie played a key role in the struggle against the brutal apartheid regime...

Mondoweiss • 16th February 2018

Extracting a legacy of Black, Southern organizing for Palestine

The particularity of racism’s history in the South has not been overlooked, and has given way to an understanding of immense commonality between contemporary Palestine and the Jim Crow apartheid system in the U.S. It should come at no surprise, then,...

Workers World • 30th January 2018

Atlanta artists drop banners for Palestine

A collective of artists in Atlanta on Jan. 25 dropped several 12-by-20 foot banners in solidarity with Palestine over busy freeway bridges. One banner also addressed Atlanta’s gentrification problem, while another demanded an end to the GILEE (Georgia...

Medium • 15th January 2018

Florida Prisoners To Launch ‘Operation PUSH’ Strike Against Prison Slavery

Incarcerated people in Florida have announced a prison strike called ‘Operation PUSH’ beginning Monday, January 15th, coinciding with MLK Day. The organizers plan to disrupt as much economic flow of the prisons as possible by waging a labor strike;...

Zine • 16th October 2017

Theirs and Ours: Terrorism’s “Inclusivity” Argument

I don’t know that we can say with clarity that arguing for the application of the term “terrorist” to certain individuals is actually useful. The conversation is positioned on the equalization of the term’s application, not on the total deconstruction...