Frederick McKindra

Writer. Editor.

Associate Editor @oxfordamerican magazine
Email: [email protected]

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My honor to write this essay sharing the story of Ed Johnson, head coach of the Sunset Tigers Little League football team, on the occasion of his retirement after 50+ years for the @ArkTimes. Please read and share across your platforms if so inclined.

https://t.co/0u4eP7aWVH

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My latest essay for @ArkTimes on the AR Queer Mens Social Club. Happy Pride!

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A queer men’s group in Arkansas is building a social network beyond the transactional world of dating apps. https://t.co/p86kAYgdLT

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Looking for a We Out Here 2026 ticket https://t.co/FAkb1s9XfW

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New essay by me on public recreation in Little Rock.

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“Rather than a food desert, have I lived most of my life in a health and wellness desert?” Frederick McKindra ponders in this send-up of Jim Dailey Fitness & Aquatic Center, the people’s gym. https://t.co/eh7HTjyLmg

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New essay of mine in the May issue of the @ArkTimes on Jim Dailey Fitness & Aquatic Center and public recreation in Little Rock. On newsstands now.

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A new piece for the @ArkTimes on the history of LR's University Park neighborhood, an examination of White flight, the Black middle class, and racial enclaves.

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Sitting just west of University Ave. on a small slice of land, the University Park neighborhood began in the late 1960s as an idea, a stubborn redoubt against the notion that Black citizens should be corralled in the old eastern and southern zones of LR. https://t.co/C7E7mYUqXH

[DJ Kam Bennett @KameronBennett]

This gonna be our new president?

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New article on LR's McGraw Learning Institute and afrocentric education in the 90s for the July issue of @ArkTimes .
https://t.co/tE1vzRnd0h

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Get into this COWBOY CARTER Roundtable from the OG Southern music mashup publication @oxfordamerican https://t.co/JQ5iUku2Om

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We’re thrilled to welcome Frederick McKindra (@boxfade) to the OA team as a new associate editor!

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THIS!

[Jerèmone, tutti frutti. @JD0892]

I’m sick of seeing Jerrod Carmichael and Tyler the Creator discourse from straight people. Gay people don’t get to learn to navigate interpersonal relationships until their older.

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@VanLathan Alot of blk gay men castigate those that pursue interracial desire as self-hating, without allowing for the fact that some blk gay men start "brother zoning" their peers as a survival tactic, oftentimes in hostile environments, and wht men become their preference.

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The lingo I’m grateful for being brought into the zeitgeist is “brother zoning” bc THAT has been my sexuality concerning blk men forever and I’ve never had lingo to talk about it! #JerrodCarmichaelRealityShow

[ᴇᴍᴀɴɴʏ @emannymusic]

Wait is this clip I’m seeing of Tyler the Creator “brother zoning” Jerrod Carmichael real or a part of a show?

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Loved this thread giving some thought to interracial desire being result of blk men putting other blk men in friend/family zone rather than eroticizing them. So oftentimes ppl see interracial desire as internalized racism w/o considering this as a valid form of loving.

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Unpopular Opinion: I just realized this AM that I MIGHT prefer Danielle’s voice to Tasia’s…😫🫣 Me, a 20 year Fantasia stan. Not that it’s a competition or nothin’, but I’m having to reevaluate some thangs. #TheColorPurple

[Heather Jochens (ヘザー•ジョケンス) @heatherjochens]

“Butterfly in the sky, I’d like to see a bitch try~”

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Universal public education was far from guaranteed in early America, @AdamHSays writes.

The work of freedpeople and their advocates during Reconstruction persuaded the nation to embrace the idea. https://t.co/XDl6j6K7ey

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Fred McKindra (@boxfade) discusses America’s War on Drugs, examining the ways he received and subconsciously absorbed messaging that criminalized Blackness. https://t.co/W6cGew4aN1

[Tim Cowlishaw @TimCowlishaw]

Biggest achievement of the weekend is the number of people that learned how to spell Shedeur.

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@donovanxramsey @NPRItsBeenAMin @bmluse Needed this! TY!