Category: Weekly Newsletter

Welcome back to The Black Urbanist Weekly. I’m Kristen Jeffers and I’m currently producing this weekly digital newsletter on my site, via email and various other places,to share my thoughts, my Black, Spiritual, Southern, Working-Class, Educated, Queer, Femme thoughts on how places and communities work. Think of this as my weekly column, sitting on your… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly #12– Five Years a Published Author in Traditional Form

Welcome to The Black Urbanist Weekly. If it’s been a while since you’ve opened this or if you’re brand new, let me re-introduce myself. I’m Kristen Jeffers and I’m currently producing this weekly digital newsletter on my site and via email to share my thoughts, my Black, Spiritual, Southern,Working-Class, Educated, Queer, Femme thoughts on how… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly #8–The Real Goblins of Our Urban Lives

Welcome to The Black Urbanist Weekly #7. I’m trying something different this week by putting the introduction up at the top so that it won’t get lost in the meat of the newsletter.  I reintroduced this newsletter as a place where I focus on one big idea a week, then several smaller ideas/articles and then link… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly #7–Is California Still Worth Dreaming About?

I’m currently on the final leg of my “bonus” round trip to Los Angeles to work on amplifying the site with the wonderful folks of the Maynard Institute. I wanted to take a moment and reflect on how the airport, especially National Hall at Reagan Washington National Airport, is a slept on gathering place. Well, soon,… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly #6- Head in the Clouds

My name is Kermit The Frog and I’m sitting on a log Miss Piggy too She ain’t wearing no shoes We went to the mall On a Saturday We ain’t have Nowhere to play I’ve chosen to open this week’s newsletter with an untitled blues song created by my late father, Sam Jeffers, one Saturday… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly #5–Mall Madness

Every day I drive past it. The nets are still in place, but I can see cracks coming up from the concrete. Yet, there’s a wall in the corner. A practice wall, something that is highly coveted if you find yourself wanting to play the game alone and you already have your racket and ball.… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly #4 You Only Really Miss the Swings You Don’t Take

When I first started the platform, I wanted to make it clear to folks that this wasn’t a hip-hop blog.  No shade to any part of hip-hop, but I didn’t want folks disappointed that I wasn’t a black person writing about hip-hop records. Especially since even in an article about a diversity and inclusion initiative,… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly #3-Spinning a Sensibility, Without the Records