Justin A. Davis

Justin A. Davis has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in January 2021. The social media accounts linked to from Justin A. Davis are: • Instagram Besides social media accounts, justindaviswrites has populated their site with: • During the Great Depression, Black women fought for better pay [MLK50: Justice through Journalism] • The Great Janice Payne Dorliae [Lux Magazine] • The sanitation workers’ strike without a name [MLK50: Justice through Journalism] • Can Free Public Transit Eliminate the Need for Police? [YES! Magazine] • The Conceptual House Album That Tells the Bittersweet Story of Newark’s Post-Civil Rights Era [Hearing Things] • A Political History of the NFL Jersey [Strange Matters] • Who were the United Socialists: The Black anarchist squatters you’ve never heard of [The Emancipator] • My 15 Favorite Rap Lines of 2024, Based Purely on Delivery [No Bells] • Book Review: How pandemic-era prison life shows the stakes of abolition [Waging Nonviolence] • How Black people fought for dignity from behind the bars at 201 Poplar [MLK50: Justice through Journalism] • They charged Frances Thompson with indecency when all she wanted to do was live a safe life [MLK50: Justice through Journalism] • The long, hot winter of St. Louis drill [No Bells] • Interviews at Waging Nonviolence: protest movements // reproductive rights // political prisoners // disability justice // organized labor // transit justice // abolition // direct democracy • Album Reviews at Post-Trash: Mach-Hommy // Gangrene // MIKE // DJ Muggs // The Alchemist // Navy Blue // Wiki // Oh No & Roy Ayers // Larry June // YUNGMORPHEUS • Memphis' First Tenant Movement: a Black History Month series for MLK50 • Advocates say Nashville’s "Cop City" is an escalation in militarized policing [Prism] • Playing Around After the Party: "Because the Internet" 10 Years Later [Paste Magazine] • Piece: Some Brief Notes on Necropolitics and Gunplay [(De)Cypher: Black Notes on Culture and Criticism] • Hip-hop is 50. Twenty-five years ago, Memphis rappers started writing rhymes of resistance [MLK50: Justice through Journalism] • "Pull up your pants or go to jail!" [Scalawag Magazine] - How 2000s pop rap and homophobia shaped the moral panic over sagging pants • Another Kind of Memphis Blues [Scalawag Magazine] - How Black musicians challenged police power in Memphis, from Louis Armstrong to John Gary Williams • Stolen Moments: pop justice x Black Music Month [Scalawag Magazine] • How Tina Turner's trauma remains a hip-hop trope—and why we need to abolish it [Scalawag Magazine] • How "the shadow of state abandonment" fostered then foiled Young Thug’s YSL [Scalawag Magazine] • Cop City, Gentrification, and Young Thug: Atlanta's uneven war over greenspace in "The City of the Forest" [Scalawag Magazine] • Fear of a Black Planet: Archival Notes [Science for the People Magazine] - How the antiblack legacy of U.S. agriculture has shaped the climate crisis • Longtime Memphis rapper Princess Loko died in obscurity. Will a Beyoncé feature grant her the "Renaissance" she’s overdue? [Scalawag Magazine] • Memphis Riders and Drivers Team Up to Win Back Historic Bus Route [Labor Notes, co-written with Bennett Foster] • "Murkiness in the West" (Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape) • “Notes on the Field” (Washington Square Review) • "Pig Ears" (DIAGRAM) • "We've Survived So Much to Get Here" + "Damien Hirst Says That Money is His Medium" (Protean Magazine) • "If the Blues Are a Kind of Resistance..." + "I Used to Think Those Strawberry Candies..." (Tinderbox Poetry Journal) • "The ? Remains" + "Damn, Son, Where'd You Find This?" + "Poem Snitching on Another Poem" + "I Thought It Was a Drought..." (Puerto Del Sol) • "I Didn't See Anything" + "Drapetomania" (Poetry Online) • "Ghazal Dressed as a Mid-2000s Snap Rapper" (Breakwater Review) • "Critical Whiteness Studies (2020)" (ANMLY) • "Sketch with Beetle, Pessimism, and SCORPION" + "Check" (Apogee Journal) • "Sketch with Warming Sea, Cortes, and Danger" (wildness) • "Flu Season" + "African Dodging while the President Eats Dinner in Philadelphia" (Up the Staircase Quarterly) • Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef: What makes this music feud so significant? (USA TODAY) • How Biden's Goal to 'Electrify Everything' Contributed to a Flooding Crisis (Capital B) • Here’s what some Memphians want from Mayor-elect Paul Young (MLK50) • Interview: Puerto Del Sol's Black Voices Series • 3 Young Civic Leaders Cultivating an Ecosystem of Impact (We Are Memphis)