Dave Chappelle and The Age of Spin
If I asked Dave Chappelle why it seems like the majority of his online audience doesn’t have anything nice to say about him, he’d...
What They Say: Is ‘Black-ish’ Racist?
This past Monday, Andrea Peyser of the New York Post published an article claiming the show Black-ish perpetuates racist stereotypes of Black people.
Among other...
‘Dope’: Blackness, Pop Culture, and Growing Up in 2015
Revolving around a circus of coinciding storylines and Malcolm's issues of self-understanding, Dope serves as a humorous representation of popular youth culture in 2015...
Fox News Might Be More Tolerant Than MSNBC
Yeah, I said it. I think we give Fox News too much of a hard time.
I mean, there was that time Outnumbered co-host Andrea...
Donald Glover Had A ‘Dream’
Hip-hop culture's most prominent creatives tend to have running themes throughout their work. Kanye West's music and video projects are commentaries on the limitations...
‘Wind River’ and Wow We Don’t Care About Native Americans
Light spoilers are contained in the article. No major plot twists or reveals though, promise!
Wind River is star-studded, brilliant, and you don't even know...
Joseph Allen, The Suspicious GCU, And “Good Energy”
Note: If you're just here for my take on the strange involvement of Grand Canyon University in Joseph Allen's audition, scroll down to 'The...
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is not our ‘Black Panther’
I know there’s this hope that CRA is going to be our Black Panther. I see a lot of exuberance surrounding it. We did...
Take Your Gay Ass to See Moonlight
Since the shit I wrote on my site about this flick was more homophobic than preferring prostate cancer to a prostate exam, I decided to give this...
He Ain’t Totally Wrong: Marvel Villain Ideologies I Can Respect
This piece contains some spoilers, but it’s been a hot minute since two of these movies came out and about a month since "Endgame"...