By dmingus Trapped inside the groove, I didn’t like that so much. He sang with that shrill voice that endears you to a man as long as that man’s intention is fostering clarity and your complete understanding. Outside of that, you don’t have to understand everything poppa say as long as you get the point. That’sContinueContinue reading “Return of the Black Messiah of Groove: A Review of D’Angelo’s New Album”
Category Archives: CULTURE
Dark. Nude. Storytellers: A Review
By Dr. Herukhuti It’s Sunday night in the black box of the WOW Café Theatre where performance artist and sex worker The Magnificent Akynos presents Dark. Nude. Storytellers: In Tales of Conquest. Opening with an irreverent, alcohol enriched welcome Akynos provides the audience with a context for the show, which is a revue of sorts—exploringContinueContinue reading “Dark. Nude. Storytellers: A Review”
Convicted Cop Killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Dr. Herukhuti “Convicted cop killer” That’s the meme that spread across social media and conservative cable tv to refer to the fall 2014 Goddard College Undergraduate Programs and BFA Creative Writing Program commencement speaker, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Abu-Jamal is a Goddard College alumnus serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officerContinueContinue reading “Convicted Cop Killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal”
Ray Rice and Janay Rice, Who’s to Blame?
By Dr. Herukhuti When I was child, my mother told me that my father, a Vietnam veteran and black belt in karate, kicked her in her stomach while she was pregnant and the kick led to a miscarriage of her unborn daughter, my sister. My father had left when I was an infant so thisContinueContinue reading “Ray Rice and Janay Rice, Who’s to Blame?”
Long Hot Summer: A Poet Speaks of Murder
By Dr. Herukhuti It is not easy to speak of murder. Summer heat catches the air I need to form the sounds of anguish and rage. In their place is a choking noise coming from the space where my throat should be. The news broke while I have been here in Black Mecca of theContinueContinue reading “Long Hot Summer: A Poet Speaks of Murder”
Notes from a Native Son about the 4th of July
by Dr. Herukhuti “To side with the right, against the wrong, with the weak against the strong, and with the oppressed against the oppressor! here lies the merit, and the one which, of all others, seems unfashionable in our day. The cause of liberty may be stabbed by the men who glory in the deedsContinueContinue reading “Notes from a Native Son about the 4th of July”
You Are Triggering me! The Neo-Liberal Rhetoric of Harm, Danger and Trauma
The Role of Techno-Vernacular Creativity in STEAM Education
A Few Solutions: A My Brother’s Keeper Follow-Up
by Dr. Herukhuti A lot of people liked, shared, and discussed yesterday’s article, Juneteenth: Lessons for My Brother’s Keeper. Of the criticisms of the article was the claim that I did not provide any specific alternative solutions. The last paragraph of the article offered a vision that some felt did not give them sufficient specificity inContinueContinue reading “A Few Solutions: A My Brother’s Keeper Follow-Up”
Juneteenth: Lessons for My Brother’s Keeper
By Dr. Herukhuti Imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy is so fucking seductive. The addiction to it is really fucking deep. I know a number of readers are already turned off by my use of profanity. I want you to hold onto your discomfort with my profanity as I explain my rage at the profanity ofContinueContinue reading “Juneteenth: Lessons for My Brother’s Keeper”