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We treat individuals in the spotlight as gods or Satan incarnate. We tell broken stories about teams, communities, nations, and other groups to protect our worldviews. We're all human though, meaning our stories deserve more than a TMZ article. This category takes a look at how we look at people

Music Can’t Heal A Dishonest Artist

Read 'I Want To Support XXXTentacion, But Should I?' here. Making music can change an artist for the better. Music got Jay Z into clean-money entrepreneurship. Jay...

Dear women tired of mediocre white men,

Dear women tired of mediocre white men, I’ve heard a lot of you complain about the mediocre white men you date. I’ve heard complaints about how...
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Two Black Frenchmen On BLM and How Racism in France Looks

by Jeffrey Bissoy-Mattis This piece was originally published by Plugged, a partner of ATC, on their blog Views From The...

So…How Does A Multiparty System Get Started?

Growing dissatisfaction with the United States' two-party political system has reached a boiling point in the 2016 election. The American public has been highly...

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...
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Nickelodeon’s PSA and Why Black Girls Are Not Our Soldiers

by Faith Nwachuku-Taite This piece was originally published by Plugged, a partner of ATC, on their blog Views From The...

Mean Girls: An Asian American Retrospective

Mean Girls used to be one of my favorite movies. The plot was full of laugh-out-loud moments and characters who stretched the imagination, but...

Not Your Fun Gay Party Time: Str8 Ppl and Pride

Pride is historical celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, and is for LGBTQ+ people and LGBTQ+ people only. Let me make that more clear: Pride...

Why the Beyonce vs. Kim K Beef Scares Me, And Why It Should Scare...

Originally published on dickiebheeonthestreetz.com After an honest, homophobic yet heartfelt review of Moonlight, Dickie Bhee is back on Across The Culture. His insights on how under-the-radar beefs between...

Young Nudy Said “Nigger” On “4L” And Made Me Uncomfortable

"4L"—a nod to some gang shit in Atlanta that I know nothing about—off of I Am > I Was smacks. 21 Savage's growth as a rapper...