By Dr. Herukhuti Kevin Hart is a Black comedian whose career began in the Black community. In the early 2000s, clubs like Philly’s Laff House provided him with the space and time to develop his comedic style, identity, craft, and content. After many comedy tours and movies since those early days, Hart has remained committedContinueContinue reading “Kevin Hart and the Racial Politics of LGBTQ Call Outs”
Category Archives: CULTURE
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 have written something here that pisses you or someone you know off. And yes, some people who are living with an addiction might be triggered. This is the story of how an aphrodisiac got itsContinueContinue reading “White Gay Men Using Crystal Meth to Enslave and Sexually Exploit Black Men”
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 old child. At the time that tape came out, I considered it child pornography and did not want to watch or even have it in my possession. I watched the enormously painful documentary mini-series, SurvivingContinueContinue reading “Manchild in the Compromised Land: What We Might Learn from Surviving R Kelly”
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 by the murder of dozens of unarmed Black people including children, women and men by the police or any random white men. You, me, us Black folk, individually and collectively have had to suffer andContinueContinue reading “What BlacKkKlansman Poses Is a Problem”
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 an old copy of it somewhere and waded with relative ease through the translation that made his words feel more abstract and opaque than were probably the case in the original Portuguese. It would beContinueContinue reading “Is Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed Possible with the White, Middle Class?”
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 providing me with an opportunity to think about the role of culture, cultural production, and art in the work of revolutionary decolonization. Simultaneous to the reading, other events in my life have been an occasionContinueContinue reading “Sustainability for Creatives: The Importance of Self-Care for Artists”
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, Sexuality, and Spirituality, delivered the following speech at the 2018 New York City Pride Rally at the Stonewall National Park and Monument: I recognize the Lenape and Wappino people as the rightful protectors of thisContinueContinue reading “Dr. Herukhuti’s 2018 New York City Pride Rally Speech (Full Text)”
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 label and critique other Black folks who promote a brand of Black nationalism or cultural nationalism that is frequently rooted in the cisheteropatriarchy of white supremacy and Western thought while purporting to be antagonistic toContinueContinue reading “7 Reasons Not to Call Someone A Hotep”
Coogler’s Black Panther Is Black America’s Proof of Life Statement to Africa
By Dr. Herukhuti There are two types of misconceptions Black folks in the Americas have of Africa–that it is filled of countries of the shithole-variety like the current POTUS characterized and decades of US entertainment/media coverage has promoted or the mythological, fantasy of an ancient African past in which everyone was a great Queen orContinueContinue reading “Coogler’s Black Panther Is Black America’s Proof of Life Statement to Africa”
No Homo | No Hetero and Socially Engaged Arts Reception In DC Jan 25
Join Dr. Herukhuti, founder and chief erotics officer of the Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality, in Washington DC for an evening of celebration Thursday, January 25th, 6pmET. We will be screening some work-in-progress from the forthcoming documentary film on sexual fluidity and manhood among Black men in the United States, “No Homo | NoContinueContinue reading “No Homo | No Hetero and Socially Engaged Arts Reception In DC Jan 25”