By Shondrea Thornton When news of Aziz Ansari’s alleged sexual assault began to spread, I chalked it up as just another drop in the trough of Hollywood revelations in recent months. Ansari, whose fame is tied to his ability to…
By Taylor Steele Despite having been doing it for six years, I am nowhere near fluent in reading Tarot cards. I couldn’t, at the drop of a hat, tell you the difference in meaning between the seven of pentacles and…
By Gioncarlo Valentine “Where do you go when the pain of staying is stronger than that of leaving?”- Joel Leon I recently happened across a story that shook me into a state of genuine despair. A woman named Marisa Harris,…
By Torraine Walker There's a tradition in Black families when someone passes away. Once everyone has filed into the church and passed by the coffin to view the body of the loved one, and the reverend has finished the sermon,…
By Austin S. Harris In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, one of the year’s most acclaimed films, Sam Rockwell plays a moronic racist cop who is known to have tortured a Black suspect. He has rightfully received critical acclaim for…
By Brittany Frederick I’m not going to front, I binged the Hulu original The Handmaid’s Tale at the behest of my friend who promised me it was exactly like Trump’s America. While the series, and Margaret Atwood’s novel that served…
By Sarah Meron The summer I turned 10 years old, I went on holiday to a beach town somewhere in France with my auntie and uncle. I remember arriving at the beach and plopping myself excitedly on my beach towel,…
By Aisha Mirza To be clear, I am not a fool, and therefore my expectations were not sky-high for a movie about heteronormative interracial love written by Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani comedian, and his white wife Emily Gordon. There were…
By Ahlam Ali "still trying to try to imagine freedom and black joy black love black life reimagined reproduced" — Jamal Lewis I love Black women unconditionally. And with love comes a huge responsibility. Imagining a new and less problematic…
By Hassan Henderson Since receiving it as a gift, now a little over four years ago, I’ve boastfully sported the “I Met God, She’s Black” T-Shirt. It was given to me as a twentieth birthday present by one of my…
