‘BlacKkKlansman’s false promise in America’s next chapter and police
What could possibly come in the next chapter for America if these are our heroes?
Here’s what happens when you proclaim “Black Lives Matter” in the whitest sport in America
To say the lack of diversity is disheartening is an understatement for Black hockey players and fans.
“I mean Black folks are God”: An interview with ‘The Hole’ playwright Zhailon Levingston
When the walls of prison rub up against the walls of identity, love can be a violent thing.
‘Sorry To Bother You’ crucially legitimizes “violence” as a response to violent oppression
By Devyn Springer "...on the agenda of the bourgeoisie there is—there can be nothing but—violence, corruption, and barbarism." - Aimé Cèsaire It was clear from the conversations in the full theater that none of us really knew what to expect…
The social media we rely upon is killing us
By Arielle Iniko Newton I’m banned from Facebook again. This time for thirty days. Apparently, “Straights are weird. Goodnight.” is hate speech. The algorithms of a global capitalist enterprise that allegedly shares data with law enforcement, determined that my rhetoric…
“Abolition begins with imagination, but it certainly does not end there”: An interview with ‘Neptune’ playwright Timothy DuWhite
By Hari Ziyad On July 13th, poet, writer, RaceBaitR deputy editor, performance artist and playwright Timothy DuWhite’s one-man show Neptune had its world premiere at Dixon Place in NYC, during the venue’s annual HOT! Festival: The NYC Celebration of Queer…
How to derail productive Black discourse: mention white women
By JaKeen Fox May 6th 2018. The date will go down in infamy, not as the day John McCain said he wouldn’t want Donald Trump to attend his funeral. You won’t remember that in Hawaii, lava from a volcano destroyed…
The art of the drug deal: Kanye West, ‘Daytona,’ and the exploitation of addiction
By Tochi Onyebuchi It’s not the bathroom she died in. She would find that bathroom six years later in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. She would find it after rehearsals with Brandy and Monica for Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy…
The NFL doesn’t fear punishing Black players because integration doomed mass Black protests
Integration has completely warped the way many Black Americans deal with race issues.
Carried by corpses: ‘This is America’ or the ingenuity of lynching in 10 parts
By Jonathan Moore “Is it possible to consider, let alone imagine, the agency of the performative when the black performative is inextricably linked with the specter of contented subjection, the tortuous display of the captive body, and the ravishing of…
