The Stone The Builder Refused

WHEN MUHAMAD ALI REFUSED TO GO TO WAR HE SAID THIS:

“I don’t hide from recruiting. I don't burn flags I'm not escaping to Canada I'm staying right here. Do you want to send me to jail? Okay, go ahead. Been In Jail 400 Years. I can be another four or five more, but I will not go 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I'll die here, now, fighting you, if I want to die. You are my enemy, not Chinese, not Vietcong, not Japanese. You are the one who opposes me when I want freedom. You are the one who opposes me when I want justice. You are the one who opposes me when I want equality. Do you want me to go somewhere and fight for you? Not even here in America you defend my rights and beliefs. You don't even defend me here at home."

Muhammad Ali.

where would we be without them

This month, in celebration of Pride and James Baldwin’s crucial contributions to queer literature, we commissioned digital artist Danielle Taphanel, @dtaphanel, to create a Tumblr-only, reimagined cover for Baldwin’s debut novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, one of America’s greatest classics.

Danielle Taphanel, a self-taught, disabled, non-binary, first-generation Filipino-Latino artist who loves plants and folklore, delicately captures the mosaic of themes presented in a book titled after a beloved Black American spiritual song of the same name.