The coercive nature of jobs within the immigrant detention industrial complex—whether at privately-run ICE facilities in economically disinvested areas or with ICE itself—is not so different from the coercion that drives people to join the military. Read more via Scalawag: ICE and the military use the same playbook—exploiting impoverished communities.| Scalawag
Steve Muhammad is a decorated martial artist who developed his own form—Ken Wing Tai Ba—by watching the creative movements of his predominantly Black students over his 60-year career. While his talents and military career took him all over, his legacy begins in the Mississippi Delta, with his paw-paw and a peckerwood. Four-year-old Steve Sander's cinnamon-colored […] Read more via Scalawag: Molded in the Delta: The Mississippi Origins of Steve Muhammad.| Scalawag