The assassinations of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor ignited the dormant outrage the Black community has felt towards law enforcement and the justice system since the unpunished killing of Emmet Till in...
Author - Onyekachi Akalonu
Onyekachi Akalonu
Nicki Minaj Should’ve Had A No 1. Bill Board Hit A LONG TIME Ago
On May 11, rappers Nicki Minaj and Doja Cat made history as the first female collaboration to hold the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in six years. Their song, a remix of Doja Cat’s “Say...
Can Black People Be Racist?
While scrolling on my Facebook timeline, I came across a post that asked: “Can Black People Be Racist?”. I immediately took to the comments that were filled with dictionary definitions of the word...
COVIDISM
We have currently been quarantined for over 2 months now. A new normal has taken hold as people across the globe are connecting in ways more than ever as we practice social distancing. As a way of commemorating National...
Kenya Barris’s #blackAF Presents An Important Question About Black Creativity
In an interview at the 2017 Emmy Awards, Insecure writer, creator, and lead actress Issa Rae declared that she was “rooting for anybody black” to take home an award that night. Her comments resonated with a...
Can White Storytellers Tell Non-White Stories?
This past January, Oprah Winfrey announced American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins to be her latest Oprah’s Book Club pick. The book is centered on the treacherous journey a mother and her son must make across the...
If You’re A Writer
If you are a writer, you almost never write. You experience things, things that are sad, happy, weird, funny and just plain real. However, if you are like me, you almost never open your laptop to write these experiences...
How Netflix Series Raising Dion Tells the Tragic Truth of Raising Black Boys in America
Raising Dion is a superhero science fiction series on Netflix created by Carol Barbee based on the 2015 comic book series and short film by Dennis Liu. The series, executively produced by Michael B. Jordan who also has...
Instagram “Likes” Will Soon Be No More. Yay or Nay for Creatives?
Last month at the WIRED25 Conference, Instagram CEO Adam Monsseri revealed his plan to remove the option to like content on the social media app. The plan, Monsseri argues, is an effort to make Instagram a “safe space...
Let’s Talk About the N-Word (Again)
It’s pretty difficult to not hear the n-word in everyday language. The colloquial “nigga” is derived from the racial slur “nigger”, the replacement of the -er and addition of the -a linguistically diminishes the...
ANC 1D is Fed Up!
September 24, 2019 The Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting for Ward 1D was held at 7pm in the Mount Pleasant Library on 16th Street N.W. The crowd consisted mainly of older homeowners with an attitude that can be...
A Retail Space for Desire: A Look At A Ma Maniere Luxury Living
As we witness the rise of the cyber marketplace, the traditional brick and mortar retail space has started to diminish from prominence. In the early 2000s, sneaker heads lined the streets early Friday mornings in hopes...
