My first introduction to the word “twerk” was on Usher’s highly anticipated 8701 albums. The album, released in the summer … More
Category: Social Commentary
Themes of race, gender etc explored in popular culture.
Remembering Toni Morrison
Though I met Morrison as a child, I did not understand her until I was an adult. I was an … More
Oh Marianne, The Great White Hope Ain’t the GOAT
This country has an obsession with aesthetical emotion. By aesthetical emotion, I speak to the appearance of emotion being far … More
#NotOurAriel
Unlike the “original” Ariel, black women need not be “part of their world.”
What To The Displaced African in America is The Fourth of July?
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than … More
Kamala Harris, The Presidential Race and the Race Card
Before I begin this post, please allow me to state what I am sure will get lost in translation. To … More
The Politics of Black Female Invisibility
It was a beautiful Sunday— a dichotomous backdrop to the tension that accompanies my weekly trips to acquire the fruits … More
The Burning House of Black Space
I am not friendly, and I seldom smile when among gentrifiers in a diluted black space. I have … More
Aladdin, A Warning to Black Voters?
Aladdin, in its most recent adaption, merges theatre and Bollywood on the big screen. Though inundated with Indian actors who … More
What White People Want: A Tamed Shrew (What Women Want, A Review)
Will Packer (writer/director of 2017’s Girl Trip) kicks off 2019 with a remake of Mel Gibson’s What Women Want (2000) … More
