Donney Rose

poet, advocacy journalist and teaching artist

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native Donney Rose is a New Orleans-based poet, advocacy journalist and teaching artist. He is a past Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow and a recipient of the 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award for Literary Arts, among countless other noteworthy accomplishments in arts and community organizing.


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Donney Rose

1mos ago
Opinion

ICE is coming to New Orleans — its residents are preparing to resist

Federal agents have begun staging in New Orleans to carry out Operation ‘Swamp Sweep,’ a ramped-up deportation drive welcomed by MAGA Gov. Jeff Landry.

6mos ago
MS NOW Opinion

How those who love hip-hop should respond to the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs verdicts

Combs’ trial should prompt those of us who love hip-hop to call out and condemn its sometimes casual attitudes about the humiliation and abuse of women.

7mos ago
MS NOW Opinion

Why it’s hard to get in the spirit of Juneteenth in 2025

Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.

7mos ago
MS NOW Opinion

Confronting the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans

There’s an ongoing attempt to erase knowledge of these atrocities and pretend as if they were just figments of Black folks’ imagination.