CL’s American Debut and Black Culture
With 5 million views in a week on her newest music video 'Lifted', K-Pop star CL is striving to make her way into the U.S. market....
Delta, Laughing In The Faces of Professional Black Women
Tamika Cross is an OBGYN from Houston, Texas. While on a Delta flight from Detroit to Minneapolis, a fellow passenger became unresponsive. As his wife...
Nav and The Minefield of Nigga
Nav is an Indian-Canadian from Rexdale, a racially-diverse low-income neighborhood in Toronto. Clearly his people from the Rex, as he calls it, are cool...
Hope and a Hiccup in BLM NY’s Recognition of the Tigray Genocide
Chivona Renee Newsome, co-founder of the Greater New York chapter of Black Lives Matter, spoke at a Tigray Genocide protest Sunday morning....
Creators, But Not Owners: Black America And Urban Culture
Between Rock and Roll, Hip-hop, countless dance crazes, and additions to the English lexicon, American pop culture has a lot to thank Black people for. What...
Dash Cam Footage of Philando is Psychological Warfare
The release of the dash cam footage of Philando Castile's murder after his killer was acquitted is a form of psychological warfare.
For years, we...
The Whiteness Project Is Necessary
Whiteness is a concept. People who identify as White tend to be the ones who buy into it, but anyone can.
Don't act like it's...
‘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...
The Pulse Shooting and The Erasure of QTPOC
The recent homophobic mass shooting of over 50 LGBTQ+ Latinx* folks at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida has shed light upon an issue...
The Dixon Challenge
An honest, self-identified redneck took to YouTube recently to get real about racism.
The man has since been identified as actor/filmmaker Jorge Eugene Moran. He...