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 …
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The 💯 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.
Georgia on my Mind: An Ode to Southern Gentrification
Last February, I sat in Tierra Burrito Bar off Calle de Sagasta in Madrid, the Spanish city I’d called ‘home’ for six months. Chicken tacos and multiple shots of tequila …
Dance Like Your Friends Are Watching
People these days are increasingly characterizing pop culture as having entered the “age of the booty”. Read a couple think pieces and you’d think twerking was a special magic only …
Thoughts 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 …
A Love Supreme: A Visit to Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church
I live in San Francisco with my boyfriend in a (formerly) predominantly black neighborhood called the Western Addition. I am black and reminiscent of the neighborhood’s past. My boyfriend is …
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 …
Race in “Fear The Walking Dead”: Will the Real Latinos Please Stand Up?
I know it’s full The Walking Dead season after last night’s season premiere, but I am still recovering from its younger sibling’s brief time on TV. After the short six episode run of …
Straw Freshmen: Why the War on Campus PC Culture is Bullshit
PC culture. It’s the new evil gripping the millennials of this country, coddling all of our college students so they become unquestioning, reactive drones; social justice warriors who put their …
Yoncé
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. “I am a human being, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.” - Terence When the Eagles lost the Super Bowl …