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On July 4th 2025, America murdered its safety net: Medicaid gutted, food stamps slashed, Arctic drilled—all for billionaire tax cuts. "The cupboards testify: nothing grows in hunger's house.”

When’s the last time you dreamed? Collaging on a Budget

Zariah Cameron continues her adventures in creativity, all through her experiences at the local library.

A collage of album covers including: DON'T TAP THE GLASS, Let God Sort 'Em Out, Black British Music (2025), and REST IN BASS

The Most Notable Album Covers of July, from Jim Legxacy to Clipse: Cover Stories

Welcome to Cover Stories, a monthly column celebrating and shading anything and everything related to design and music.

Photograph featuring the full range of products from Àrokò's first capsule collection, including a scarf, a t-shirt, 2 cermaic cups, a poster, and a zine.

Buy Cool Stuff, Support Our Work

Our first collection of products is available now! Read on for more details about how everything came together.

Image of Van Newman, who is a Black man wearing a trucker hat, glasses, a white t-shirt, and a gold necklace.

How Van Newman is Divesting From Big Tech, Artificial Urgency, and the U.S.A.

We spoke to Van Newman about divestment as a practice and a source of joy in an increasingly cruel world.

A meme featuring the cast of characters of 'Arthur' with the text, "HAVING FUN ISNT HARD WHEN YOU'VE GOT A LIBRARY CARD"

Want Some Joy on a Budget? Sounds Like You Need a Library Card

Zariah Cameron kicks off her column on how to get the most out of your library card.

Juneteenth 2025: The Fire This Time

You want to know what Juneteenth means in 2025? It means we're still breathing despite every plan to make us die. Every law designed to break us, every vote they tried to steal. Every knee pressed to our necks, every wound they wouldn't heal.

Movie Theaters as Modern Underground Railroads: How 'Sinners' Created Freedom Spaces in Plain Sight

For 137 minutes, "Sinners" transforms theaters into Underground Railroad stations—where Black truth flows freely. Darkened spaces become corridors of breath. Tears fall uncensored. And for a moment, liberation exists in plain sight.

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Welcome to ÀROKÒ.WORLD

Welcome to the ÀROKÒ.WORLD, a home for critique, reflection, and conversation at the intersection of Blackness and design. Brought to you by Àrokò Cooperative.

Totoro, Tanks & the Theft of Wonder: Ghibli Aesthetics in the Age of AI

When nostalgia becomes a weapon, truth blurs. As AI-generated Ghibli-style imagery floods the political arena, we must ask: What happens when the visual language of peace is hijacked to launder state violence?

THE STORM THEY NAMED DEMOCRACY

The debut of the “Verses in the Wake” poetry column tears through illusion with lyrical fury. It strips democracy of its costume, revealing empire’s raw face—where ballots bury dreams and language launders violence. This is poetry as reckoning. As resistance.

A Brief History of Àrokò Cooperative

If you’ve ever wondered who we are or what fuels our work at Àrokò Cooperative, you’re in the right place.

Gathering of seven members of Àròko Cooperative gathered at Alkali Rye in Oakland, CA. They are sitting in a semi-circle with their backs to a full-length window.

Community

The Power of Nine

"It's not one plus one, or even two times two. It’s Àròko to the power of nine members. We're all multiplying our skills and our time together, rather than trying to add them or divide them or subtract them."

Collage of the poster for The Encampments, which shows an anonymous student wearing a keffiyeh around their shoulders, with the words "THE ENCAMPMENTS" across their face.

Dignify through Design

What's So Funny About 'The Encampments'?

In the first entry in their column, Food for Thought (Literally), Kellyn Nettles digs into The Encampments. They pair the film with a hearty spicy mushroom risotto, "something that will provide you sustenance and get you off your ass and into action."

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