By Iyatunde Oshunade Folayan In 2009, I received my name at the long running Kwanzaa celebration within Detroit’s historic Black…
That Ain’t Forgiveness: On the Political Economy of Hugging
By Dr. Herukhuti Stop it. Stop showing the images, playing the video. Stop talking about how amazing or incredible or…
The Loss of Empathy: When We Can No Longer Mourn Our Dead, We Become Dust
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…