by Dr. Herukhuti We don’t love each other, not because we don’t have the capacity. But because our trauma has…
Reppin’ Ain’t Easy and Some of Us Are Brave
By Dr. Herukhuti Before keeping it real was a thing, we represented. Back in the 90s and early 00s, people…
Kevin Hart and the Racial Politics of LGBTQ Call Outs
By Dr. Herukhuti Kevin Hart is a Black comedian whose career began in the Black community. In the early 2000s,…
White Gay Men Using Crystal Meth to Enslave and Sexually Exploit Black Men
by Dr. Herukhuti I don’t do trigger warnings in my writing but I’m letting you know now that I might…
Manchild in the Compromised Land: What We Might Learn from Surviving R Kelly
By Dr. Herukhuti I watched it. Not the tape of him having sex with a 14, 15, or 16 year…
What BlacKkKlansman Poses Is a Problem
by Steven G. Fullwood BlacKkKlansman wants you and me to wake up. No, seriously. Brown-skinned people who have been terrorized…
Is Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed Possible with the White, Middle Class?
by Dr. Herukhuti I first read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed when I was in high school. I found…
Sustainability for Creatives: The Importance of Self-Care for Artists
By Dr. Herukhuti I’ve been reading Reiland Baraka’s introduction to Resistance and Decolonization by Amilcar Cabral. The text has been…
Dr. Herukhuti’s 2018 New York City Pride Rally Speech (Full Text)
On Friday, June 22, 2018, Dr. H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams, founder and chief erotics officer of the Center for Culture,…
7 Reasons Not to Call Someone A Hotep
By Dr. Herukhuti Recently, I’ve noticed an uptick in progressive Black folks and others using the Kemetic word “hotep” to…