How MEMFOLK Creates Spaces of Black Joy
A Memphis-based immersive experience brand helping people enjoy life during trying times.
Read MoreTaking Up Space & the Cultural Impact of Black Music: An Interview with SiriusXM’s Dion Summers
I sat down (over Zoom of course) with Dion Summers, the Vice President of Urban Music Programming at SirusXM Radio. We talked history, the influence of Black culture on popular music, and his experience navigating the media/entertainment industry as a Black man.
Read MoreBlack Women On the Record About Sexual Assault
Telling the truth of our stories and experiences is a type of justice for Black survivors of sexual violence. Owning our narratives is a form of taking back power and having the freedom to heal.
Read MoreOn Black Grief & Black Joy
I want to be mindful about what I share and what messages I’m trying to evoke particular in other Black folks. I can do both—speak against injustices and be unapologetic about my joy.
Read MoreOwning My Body, Owning My Protest
Tension was familiar, it was a part of every home I’d known until then. My body, I knew, was not my own. The physical abuse I suffered before being adopted, and after, left scars on my body that are still with me today. My mind was the only safe place, where no-one could enter.
Read MoreMisogynoir Almost Killed My Acting Career
Taking care of and loving ourselves as Black women is one of the most revolutionary things we can do, especially in the entertainment industry.
Read MoreWhy Gen Z Revolutionaries Need to Add Parliament-Funkadelic to Their Playlists
Black youth and young adults of Generation Z may have more in common with the Boomers we so eagerly make fun of than we realize. When comparing the socio-political climate of the 1960s-1970s to that of the current day, the parallels are almost uncanny.
Read MoreWAP: The Sex Anthem of 2020
Yet since WAP’s release, the song has faced the usual backlash, slut-shaming, and censorship from a patriarchal society that upholds the belief that it is inappropriate and unladylike for women to talk publicly about pleasure and sexual desire.
Read More"Black Is King" and The Black Dollar
What happens if we recognize our own power and make wealth-building (and redistribution) top priority?
Read MoreA Hundred Years a Playhouse
Aseelah Shareef, of the historic Karamu House theater, discusses the importance of the arts in healing and amplifying the Black experience.
Read MoreMovies on the Margins: The Legacy of Black Independent Cinema
Black people have been making movies since the early 1900s. Pushed out of white Hollywood, however, Black filmmakers went on to create their own production companies, work with their own resources, and tell the story of the Black experience in groundbreaking ways.
Read MoreThe Rebirth of Peter Coxx
How the Barbadian artist, singer/songwriter overcame tribulations and returned to his first love.
Read MoreThe Racial Divide in Feminism
Until we’re able to recognize our significantly different struggles, no real change can come within the feminist movement. This is possible with more representation both on- and off-camera.
Read MoreImani Coppola: Songs of Protest, Joy, & Black Liberation
Some people know her as the indie-pop singer-songwriter of Legend of Cowgirl or the front-woman of the rhythm and cool musical duo Little Jackie but the truth is that Imani Coppola defies categorization, regardless of whichever of her 14 albums you’re listening to.
Read MoreDough the Freshkid’s Latest Album “Tal’s Cafe” Details Growing Up In South Central LA
South Central artist Dough the Freshkid is a multi-talented entrepreneur and music mogul who began building his music career from the ground.
Read MoreThe Soundtrack of Our Lives and Songs of an Endless Movement
The celebration of Black joy that we get from music is almost a priceless counterculture in the medium, a spotlight that illuminates an audience of Black faces.
Read MoreIt’s Okay That “Friends” Was Not Diverse
So no one told you life was gonna be this…white.
Read MoreTo Toni Morrison and Black Women Writers Who Hold My Shaky Hand
As writers, when we leave this earth, our words will live on. Our thoughts will still take up space in this world.
Read MoreTuned In: Eryn Allen Kane
Mimicking the sounds of musical instruments like Ella Fitzgerald, fusing the nostalgic feelings of genres like R&B and Soul with Jazz and Gospel, while captivating the hearts and genius minds of legends like Prince.
Read MoreTuned In: Kwabs
Here's another British singer for you to become obsessed with. Everything about this performance moves me.
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