By Phillip B. Williams 1. “All my niggas in the whole wide world/made this song to make it all y’all turn/ for us/ this shit is for us†Solange sings this in her song “F.U.B.U.†from her stunning third album…
by Thomas Washington, Jr. At a glance, it appears that he is Better. Which means that I have to look closely. I have to see what’s actually in front of me. To hear what is actually said. His pseudonym—“Flash Knows…
Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. His first book, Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize…
Born in Baltimore and raised in Southern California, Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer. She is an alumna of Spelman College and the University of Maryland and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's…
by RJ Eldridge A couple of years ago, before Baltimore and Ferguson reinvigorated an American conversation around black bodies and the law, an article about an often-used phrase caught my eye. Entitled, “What’s Wrong with the Term ‘Person of Color,’”…
