Black Experience
Black Experience
The New Engagement literature and art journal celebrates the voices of the black community in the United States and those who are touched by the cultural mores generated and spread by the United States. We will continue to publish and champion stories, essays, poems, plays, films, paintings, illustrations, and photography that dissects and meditates on the experiences distinct to African-American society.
By Lola Rainey
With beautiful bafflement and clear-eyed precision, the work of Lola Rainey rails and revolts. "Darkness in The Margins" provides a much needed dose of light in unseen places.
By Nahum Welang
Though the continental context may change, the fixation on stereotypes, archetypes, and harmful assumptions persist.
By Dennis Leroy Kangalee
Incendiary, confrontational, and necessary. The excerpt from a feature film that presents a relevant and challenging moral struggle.
By Ashley Doggett
A reckoning for the blackface minstrel show-runners.
By Nicole Goodwin
Dignified curtsies in dark corners, empowering pirouettes atop threatening structures, liberating heel turns through unfriendly places.
By Jessica Gallion
On the margins and in darkness, the survivor takes adversity as a necessity for growth.
By Tyree Daye
Like catching breath, surmounting the burdens of anger, of normality, of memory requires great work.
By Jessica Edwards
Indignities and exploitation are righted with sharp words and a blunt defense.
The New Engagement
The New Engagement endeavors a novel approach to discovering, introducing, and showcasing writers, artists, and filmmakers, by providing them digital and print platforms, while encouraging and supporting their social-consciousness.