This consolidation of music is an invitation to find fuel with me. In 2017, my most refueling hobby while living in the Pacific Northwest was writing music, during that time I picked up my guitar and wrote the prelude to an neo-soul album I didn’t even know existed, a project destined for release March 2023. […]
This past weekend All of Us or None Publishing hosted a book release event at Rutgers University’s Center for Law and Justice in celebration of Rutger’s alma mater, Tia Ryans and Karen Kaplan’s new book Your Journey Behind the Cell: Pre-Release Manual for People Incarcerated in New Jersey. This manual consolidates the stories of several […]
I refuse to endorse films profiting off of Black history that are directed by non-Black people centering non-fiction African descendant of slaves as main characters because it feels more like puppeteering than storytelling. This is the reason why I have yet to see popular Black history inspired movies like Hidden Figures, directed by a white […]
Jordan Peele did it again with another movie that’s just as entertaining as it is insightful. I saw the movie against my will. Not because I don’t like Peele’s work, but I am not a scary movie person. I’m insistent on not allowing certain images to enter my conscience that I don’t feel comfortable with […]
If Beale Street Could Talk it would whisper to us all that the stories made on it are worth telling. It would remind us of the lives that were enhanced by its presence and it would sob for every life stolen from its sidewalks, screaming for all the potential greatness lost for every man that […]
One of the most glorified celebrity couples in hip hop right now represents a symptom of a much larger issue in our community; especially in relation to promiscuity, commitment and self control. When Cardi B and Offset’s relationship began it sprouted out of a bed of confusion. Their public engagement quickly followed with a baby. As […]
Hey…Princess Shuri? “Have you seen the Black Panther Movie?” my coworker asked me as I passed him on the stairwell. I responded the way I had been since opening weekend a few days before, “Not yet” “Oh” he said with disappointment, “Well you look like the princess in the movie” I was flattered but since […]
With the reigniting of the Black Panther moment as a result of the Black panther movie I can’t help but think about the history of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 in Oakland, CA the same city where Ryan Coogler, young black director of the Black Panther movie, was […]
The First Annual 206 Zulu Gala On Saturday November 5th, 206 Zulu is an organization that caught my eye when I first visited Pongo’s office in the historic Washington Hall building on 14th Ave. 206 Zulu works to empower local communities ranging from youth, low income and people of color in the Seattle region by […]
Jordan Peele’s thriller film, Get Out, is number one in the box office and has earned over $30 million during its opening weekend. Audiences are curious to see Peele’s non-comedic perspective on racism completely outside of what we’re used to seeing in his skits from MADtv to his own show, Key & Peele. I must […]