The Humanity Archive | Jermaine Fowler | Substack

Every week, I connect today's headlines to the history they never taught us. For the people doing the work of staying informed.

By Jermaine Fowler

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Nobody Used to Charge You for the Quiet

Someone posted a picture of a library. “The only data center I want,” it said underneath. You felt that in your soul.

18 mins ago•Jermaine Fowler

The Kids Are Not Alright

This week Realtor.com reported that 25.2 million adults under thirty-five lived with a parent in 2025.

Jun 21•Jermaine Fowler

Everyone Reads the First Line of the Juneteenth Order. Never the Second.

In Galveston, on June 19, 1865, soldiers tacked up a piece of paper that freed a quarter million people and, in the same breath, ordered them back to…

Jun 19•Jermaine Fowler

They Spent $14 Million on the Mall’s Pool and It Turned Green in a Week

The cesspool is the perfect metaphor for America right now, and it is not a metaphor.

Jun 17•Jermaine Fowler

Anti-Blackness Was Always for Sale

Every platform you touch is making money off the degradation of a Black person.

Jun 16•Jermaine Fowler

They Built A Welfare Queen So You'd Never Look Up

There are two kinds of welfare in America.

Jun 14•Jermaine Fowler

Eight Months In

Eight months ago I made you a promise, and it was a simple one.

Jun 7•Jermaine Fowler

The Rich Are Building Bunkers Because They Fear What's Coming

Watch what the richest men in the world are doing with their billions.

Jun 6•Jermaine Fowler