When Marginalized Folk Take Our Lives, It’s Because the State Already Has
TW: This essay discusses suicide I had just finished my first and most brutal semester at Morehouse College days before. I went over to my brothers’ house to stay there before heading back home to North Carolina. Sitting in the back
From Colonialism To The Diaspora Wars: We Are All Finding Our Way Back
Our enemy is not each other; our enemy is always white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. One of the most common quarrels among Black people online is one in which we engage in spewing what almost always seems like mistruths and
When They See Us Yesterday: The Black Imagination Beyond State Violence
I believe we can build a world where the Black Imagination no longer has to be a response to state-sanctioned violence. This article contains light spoilers for "See You Yesterday" and "When They See Us". I sat down with my Queer
Gentrification: Rich Black People Pushing Out Poor Black Folks Won’t Solve Anything
Gentrification is, in fact, a structural and cultural phenomenon that specifically and disproportionately targets low-income Black communities. April 26 was the reopening of New York’s Webster Hall. It was also the night that rapper and businessman Jay-Z would freestyle lyrics that
