Category: Identity & Culture
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The music industry has always had a parasitic relationship with minority artists. It built itself on Black music—blues, jazz, rock,… Read more
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The world wants Black people exhausted, traumatized, and too tired to fight. Black joy says: not today. Black joy isn’t… Read more
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Pop culture loves cowboys, samurai, and Vikings. What it doesn’t love is admitting that Black people were all three. History… Read more
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Between 1916 and 1970, six million Black Americans left the South, fleeing Jim Crow violence, economic exploitation, and apartheid conditions.… Read more
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Science fiction has always been about the future, but for a long time, it didn’t include Black people in that… Read more
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Between 1918 and 1937, Harlem became the epicenter of Black cultural explosion. Writers, musicians, artists, and intellectuals transformed American culture… Read more
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February rolls around and suddenly everyone’s a Black history expert. Corporate emails celebrate “diversity,” schools dust off their MLK posters,… Read more
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Representation was the dream. Ownership is the reality we’re building. For years, we were told to be grateful for scraps—a… Read more
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For too long, minority art and fashion have been celebrated when convenient and dismissed when inconvenient. We’re “exotic” until we… Read more
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Fast fashion retailers are frantically taking notes. Luxury brands are “discovering” aesthetics that have existed in minority communities for decades.… Read more
