Category: Culture
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You are more than your physical features and your salary.
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A short anecdote about overprotective parenting, church, and my love of Rihanna.
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A lot of people are arguing right now about voting. The same arguments that went on 4 years ago. “Should you vote your conscience, or should you vote for the lesser of two evils?” There’s a lot of shaming, and coercing, and weaponizing people’s statements to get people to vote for the candidate they deem…
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If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won’t even…
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I’m talking about “Love is Blind.” Don’t judge me.
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A look at how an album’s legacy is impacted by subject matter and the streaming era.
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Some brief, barely-edited thoughts about something I’ve been thinking about. So Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky was recently detained in Sweden for over a week now after a fight he was involved in in Stockholm. Fellow rappers like Tyler the Creator, Jaden Smith, SchoolBoy Q, and many other celebrities have shown support for Rocky and have…
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A brief reflection on miseducation.
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“Do not ever erase those identifiers that are held in you…it was given to you at birth and it is yours to own.” —Uzoamaka Aduba I have a European first name and a Nigerian middle and last name. For most of my adolescence I dreaded telling people my middle name It’s not even that my…
Black Spasmodic 