Tyler, the Creator has always been a trendsetter. From his provocative beginnings as the eccentric, foul-mouthed musical backbone of the Odd Future collective to his unstoppable run of one mixtape and six albums in only twelve years – in which he’s won two Grammys for consecutive projects and produced all but one song –Tyler has always had […]
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In the United States, where more than forty million Black people are represented by the measly eleven percent of Congress and three percent of the Senate that’s Black, representation matters. At a glance, it might seem acceptable for just eleven percent of Congress to represent just thirteen percent of Americans. A closer look leads one
Every liberal municipality in America flies a flag of remembrance. I use “flag” broadly—it lives not just on the flagpole, but the signpost, t-shirt, face mask, bumper sticker, and virtually everywhere else with enough space for its message. The message makes a reasonable request. It asks that we remember the lives that hate has cut
Before we get into what this article is really about, let’s get things rolling with a simple pop quiz. Would you happen to know who the first girl to pitch her team’s way to a win in the Little League World Series was? Or the first girl to pitch a shutout, a game in which
As the inimitable Stevie Wonder sang in 1976, “love’s in need of love today,” and especially so. On the heels of a classic white supremacist American presidency rivaling those of Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson, hate in the homeland has skyrocketed. As a part of their yearly hate crime statistics report, the FBI found that
As the inimitable Stevie Wonder sang in 1976, “love’s in need of love today,” and especially so. On the heels of a classic white supremacist American presidency rivaling those of Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson, hate in the homeland has skyrocketed. As a part of their yearly hate crime statistics report, the FBI found that
As the inimitable Stevie Wonder sang in 1976, “love’s in need of love today,” and especially so. On the heels of a classic white supremacist American presidency rivaling those of Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson, hate in the homeland has skyrocketed. As a part of their yearly hate crime statistics report, the FBI found that
Dave Chappelle, a comedian some consider to be the greatest of all time, has made a career out of controversy. Across his thirty-year career, he’s demonstrated—through his boldly irreverent stand-up, the acclaimed Chappelle’s Show, and his unforgiving public persona—that he’d be anything before he’d be a conformist. His intransigence to this end has proven extremely
On several occasions I have heard it suggested that Americans of color, particularly Black Americans, tend to “overreact” when lamenting the state of race relations. It is said that they fail to acknowledge progress, are needlessly pessimistic, and are simply impossible to please. But, naturally, I’ve yet to hear such a charge be underpinned by
On several occasions I have heard it suggested that Americans of color, particularly Black Americans, tend to “overreact” when lamenting the state of race relations. It is said that they fail to acknowledge progress, are needlessly pessimistic, and are simply impossible to please. But, naturally, I’ve yet to hear such a charge be underpinned by
