![Pinhook Day Embrace, 2015. Image courtesy of David Todd Lawrence.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Pinhook-Day-Embrace-2015-e1706740457295.jpg?fit=330%2C220&ssl=1)
Storying Pinhook: Representing the Community, the Floods, and the Struggle
When They Blew the Levee is a fierce love letter to the power of community, one encoded to Black sociality, the broader American social imaginary, and the mythical power of the Mississippi River. In praxis, it is a political tool—a lyrical baseball bat—for the residents of Pinhook, Missouri to wield in a rally against the sustained structural violence of a biased justice system and racialized world.