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The Latest Casualty of the Stop and Frisk Regime

By Dax-Devlon Ross

Two days ago I was leaving an event at a Harlem youth organization when I came face to face with the tail end of an encounter between the police and a teenager. As I approached the corner one plain clothes cop appeared to be issuing a final statement/warning to the teenager in question while two others hovered outside of an unmarked car parked at a reckless angle suggesting they’d rolled up on the kid jump-out style. My heart quickened. I braced myself. I had no ideas or plans but I felt I needed to be ready. Ready to intervene. Ready to observe. Ready to be frisked myself.

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Outside the Box Publishing was created by Derek Beres and Dax-Devlon Ross in 2005 as the latest in a decade-long literary collaboration between two friends who have experienced enough together to consider themselves family. It is an important and valuable way for us – perhaps more than anyone else – to continue believing in the written word. It seems only fitting in a cyberworld so accessible, so democratic in its way, that companies like ours are a natural outgrowth. Publishing books nowadays isn’t that difficult. So many alternative avenues have opened that anyone can write and publish efficiently. The difficult part is finding people that believe in and support your work. That makes a big difference in whether we move ahead or stand still. If we don’t have someone, that one person besides us, how can we expect the best of ourselves? In many ways, our commitment to literature is an extension of our commitment to fellowship. We have been fortunate enough to have one another to keep us creatively and philosophically alive, despite the setbacks and detours and plain old realities of modern existence. Outside the Box Publishing is our way of opening up the conversation and allowing other serious writers into the fold.

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