By Hari Ziyad Gregory Anderson-Elysee is a Haitian-American filmmaker, director, writer and model, and has been involved in the arts since he was a child. He is currently in the process of publishing a comic series revolving around characters from…
Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, Illinois native. He is the author of the book of poems Thief in the Interior(Alice James Books, 2016). He’s also co-authored a book of poems and conversations called Prime (Sibling Rivalry Press). He is…
[Click Here to Read Volume I] By Quentin Lucas On a Yahoo! News studio in 2014, pillars of shadow enclosed actors Michael Fassbender and Sir Ian McKellen, centering them for the camera, drawing the eye toward the pair like they were…
What if selling comic books about two white men battling through the world, their adventures founded on the heroism and escapades of two black men, is the closest White America presently stands to being able to honestly discuss the harrowing experiences of Black America — or any other marginalized community?
What does it mean to be "attracted” to someone? What does it mean to find a person desirable? With whom do we want to have sex and why? How do we know a person is beautiful? Are our attractions unchangeable and…
I like to think of myself as a storyteller, but I have never quite figured out how to tell a murder story. 2015 is the deadliest year for transgender women on record, with 22 murdered so far that we know –…
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,’”…
This past Monday, Seatsmart.com published a study conducted by (white) data analyst Andrew Powell-Morse entitled Lyric Intelligence In Popular Music: A Ten Year Analysis. Powell-Morse ran the lyrics of 225 songs that spent at least 3 weeks at #1 on the…
