Month: January 2020

• When We Cope with Grief, It’s Okay to Not Understand “Why” (A Word from Candice Benbow)

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  January 30, 2020

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  Life

  When tragedy strikes, how do we react? What goes through our mind? How do we cope? The passing of legendary basketball icon Kobe Bryant earlier this week made me reflect on this. As my mind raced, trying to process the magnitude and devastating nature of this loss, I kept asking the same question — “Why,…

  

• Hip-hop doesn’t need any more “White Savior” rappers

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  January 25, 2020

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  Music

  Hip-hop can do without the egotistical Eminem clones who feel they need to “liberate” Black culture from the clutches of Auto-tune

  

• “We are all Human” …but what does that mean?

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  January 2, 2020

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  Blackness, Life

  Recently, I was having a conversation with both my brother and a very close mutual friend of ours who we’ve known since we were children. We had a conversation about our personal growths since our high school days (we attended the same high school) and I began telling them about my journey through self-hate and…