Mind the Rap
Repost: Originally from July 17, 2014 The free Amazon music samplers are one of the great hidden treasures of the internet. There, buried deep on their digital downloads page is a link to literally...
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Context is Everything: This is Us
One of the least understood impacts of technology on modernity is the way it alters context, and the way that, in turn, shapes how we construct meaning. When viewing (for example) your Facebook Feed,...
Some of my best friends are Blackish
In the course of any cross-cultural relationship, there comes an inevitable crisis point, where actual cultural differences and differences in experience become significant. This crisis point can be particularly acute when there are underlying...
The New Black Cinema: Moonlight
My wife had one major concern going into Moonlight. “Is it going to be ‘gay Precious‘?” For the record, I was a fan of Precious, the Oscar nominated story of an obese black teenager...
Allegiance
You may not have heard of the recent Broadway musical Allegiance. You might not even have heard of the real, and newly relevant historical event it was based on, the forced internment of Japanese...
Across the Universe
In honor of the film’s tenth anniversary, a repost from 2007. Julie Taymor is one of my artistic heroes, and the Beatles are the Beatles, so I had high hopes going into this film....
I’m Not There
Reposted from 2007 I knew even before the house lights went down that I needed to approach this film in the right frame of mind. I knew not to expect a rational or linear...
Hold up! (They don’t love you like I love you)
Beyoncé’s greatest strength, it seems to me, is that (in contrast to her husband Jay-Z) she’s not a natural or intuitive talent, but rather a dedicated and ambitious professional whose craft has been carefully...
Gallery of Echoes
Shadowbox Live is a musical theater cabaret in Columbus that is best known for its seasonal shows combining original sketch comedy with live performances of well-known music, chiefly in the rock genre. A longtime...
Kindred
The late, great Octavia Butler was best-known as a rare black female superstar in a genre –science-fiction –largely dominated by white men. One of her most famous and influential books, however, was not science-fiction...
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