The NFL’s War on The Black Body
Ohioans have dueling misery on either side of the state: In Cleveland, the Browns serve as unapologetic harbingers of misery each year. In Cincinnati, the Bengals drag fans slowly through a bright and...
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“Key & Peele”: A Comedic Identity Study
Honest hour, I was not a day one “Key & Peele” fan. My first formal introduction into the world created by co-creators/stars Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, and director Peter Atencio was this...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Kendrick Lamar
Something special happened to me four years ago at the 9:30 Club in D.C, slam in the middle of the awful August 2011 heat wave in a room full of sweated-out shirts. A concert with some friends, one of...
View ArticleThoughts on Chi-Raq
I genuinely don’t know where to begin. All I know is that I watched Chi-Raq last night and I feel…feelings. So let me tease them out. First of all, Chi-Raq is a beautiful film, visually. Director Spike...
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The 💯 Blackest People of 2015
CP time anyone? 2015 went by in a blur and there were tons of amazing things created by black folks. Of course, we’re already two weeks into 2016, but we really wanted to let things marinate....
View ArticleThe Wonderful Afrofuturism of ‘The Wiz’
The Wizard of Oz is, as the saying goes, as American as apple pie. Every year at least, I’d crowd around a screen with family to watch Dorothy’s teleportation from sepia-seeped Kansas to technicolor...
View ArticleReclaiming Narratives With African Science-Fiction Film
Is it worse to be invisible or to suffer misrepresentation? Generally those have been the only options available to people of color — especially those in the African diaspora. Characters were either...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Get in Formation
If there is a Church of Beyoncé, then I am a late convert, a Christmas-Easter heathen who found an altar call a night after a club visit that ran too late. I’m the cat making change out of the...
View ArticleWhat We Bring to Light: A Conversation with John Legend
John Legend has ten Grammy awards. This may be the least interesting thing about him. After all, plenty of remarkably talented musicians also choose silence— especially in times like this one, where...
View ArticleAfro Brasil
A year ago, I decided to quit a Portuguese language course at the University of São Paulo, because I felt that the professors failed to represent the Afro-Brazilian and indigenous culture in their so...
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View ArticleThe 💯 Blackest People of 2015
There aren't actually 100, and they aren't actually all people, but this MLK Day, enjoy our list of people we loved in 2015 and expect to see more from in 2016. The post The 💯 Blackest People of 2015...
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View ArticleA Love That Takes Off Masks: On Assumptions, Intentions and Lemonade
In the wake of Beyoncé’s audiovisual masterpiece Lemonade, critics have decided they can see straight past the work and into the mind of Beyoncé herself, and they have determined that ... The post A...
View ArticleLife After Losing Jordan: When 3 1/2 Minutes Becomes Forever
“You were supposed to protect him.” Barely five minutes into the HBO documentary 3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets, director Marc Silver depicts Jordan Davis’s parents, Lucia McBath and Ron Davis, ... The post...
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