Winter 2026 Issue #5
ERROR Magazine Winter Issue #5: Unveiling Black history Month
This matter doesn't simply narrate — it disrupts structures.
The 2026 Issue of Error Magazine arrives as one of the publication’s most urgent and uncompromising editions yet—where Black history, Alaska truth, power, and resistance collide in real time. Grounded in lived experience and fearless reporting, this issue refuses comfort in favor of clarity.
At its heart is “Just Saying: It’s a Brooks Thang,” a legacy feature on Chef Jeffery L. Brooks, whose decades-long stewardship of Pike’s Landing reveals how leadership, love, and consistency can quietly shape an entire community JUST SAYING.
The issue also honors Alaska’s Black pioneers through “ICEMAN,” the remarkable story of J.P. Jones, a civil-rights leader and entrepreneur who carved dignity and opportunity out of Fairbanks’ frozen frontier while standing unflinching in the face of threats and discrimination.
This edition amplifies modern Black power and infrastructure-building in “Black Girl Rox,” a commanding profile of Jasmin Smith that reframes activism, wealth, and leadership as disciplined, strategic labor—not performance.
On the investigative front, Error exposes the next frontier of surveillance in “The Invisible Eye,” unpacking how 5G and emerging technologies could turn every wall into a window, quietly eroding privacy before laws can keep up.
The issue’s most chilling reporting comes in “The New American Gestapo,” a hard-hitting investigation into ICE’s expanding culture of fear, anchored by the real-life detention of Fairbanks mother Atcharee Buntow—an account that rippled through an entire community and raised national questions about power, transparency, and civil rights.
Rounding out the issue is “Borrowed Culture, Buried History,” a searing Black History Month op-ed that exposes how America celebrates Black culture while actively sanitizing, shrinking, and rewriting Black history itself.
The issue also pays tribute to trailblazer Norma Merrick Sklarek, the “Rosa Parks of Architecture,” whose brilliance and technical mastery reshaped a profession that was never built to include her.
Together, the 2026 Issue of Error Magazine is not just a collection of stories—it’s a record of resistance, a challenge to erasure, and a declaration that truth, when documented honestly, still has the power to disrupt.
