Bad Juju: Big Budget Black Movies at the Box Office
Or Why I Cried After Seeing Black Panther
You’ve probably noticed that a majority of my articles have a ...
A page right out of the totalitarian playbook
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An exhibit called the Topography of Terror stands in front of a remaining section of the Berlin Wall. It’...
To the Police Officers of America,
On behalf of the black men and women of this country, I would like to apologize for our resistance. Our actions are reacti...
Where’d You Go, Robert E. Lee?
Dona Maria, queen of Portugal from 1777-1815, had a collection of little people. Most were gifts given to her by slave traders...
As a gay dude, I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with the Pride Flag. On the one hand, I derive a sense of empowerment from bringing together homosexual...
‘ Violence Against Black Bodies ’ is about more than Black deaths
I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I kno...
Is blerd the word? The shadiness of blerdiness.
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
But I am sure that comes as no shock. And as a person who lives for show ...
Picture this: You're at a party, and after having a few beers you casually say something like "Donald Trump is a lying golf-playing motherfucking nazi." Right a...
Does Racism Have More Than One Definition?
Racial identity. Half of America seems to want to avoid talking about it altogether. The other half wants to tal...
