In \”A Treatise on Pessimism\” from December, I said of a recent police murder: “The timing of this murder seems almost by design as if [the officer] and company wanted to reassure all who were drunk on the unrest and indignation that had become characteristic of 2020 that nothing had changed, and that he would …
If Amanda Gorman is not the most famous poet in the United States right now, she is at least the most widely celebrated. The signs of this are virtually everywhere you look. Having been the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, a distinction she won in 2017 when she was only 19 years old, she was …
Donald Trump’s four years as president taught us many things. Very few of these things are fun to remember. We learned that a sitting president can hit the links during a national and global health crisis without repercussion. We learned that, with enough members of a particular party in the United States Senate, a president …
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Though Black biographical films are by no means a novelty, their number has grown considerably alongside the twenty-first century’s explosion of platforms for and interest in Black media. For many years now, they have thrust well-known Black historical figures into the spotlight and, sometimes, achieved blockbuster status. The mid 2010s, for example, saw the late, …
The culture of African Americans is unlike any other. All at once, it has survived centuries of violent adversity, it is renowned for how powerfully it can channel both joy and sorrow, it has become so accustomed to sorrow that it regularly mocks it, and for a sizeable portion of American history (and sometimes today), …
HBO’s new four-part miniseries Allen v. Farrow has been on thousands of minds since the first episode’s release last Sunday. The series, which features appearances from actress Mia Farrow and all but two of her children, revisits a decades-old, world-famous dispute between Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen that began with Farrow and her adopted daughter …
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Say what you will about the historically calamitous presidency of Donald Trump, but we all must admit that he was able to accomplish something that none of his forty-four predecessors could: he proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that anybody can be the President of the United States. Trump, the first person to become …
When President Biden and Vice President Harris were still campaigning for the offices they now hold, they often referred to the 2020 election as a “battle for the soul of the nation.” Their view, I suppose, was that the election was more or less a battle between the forces of good and evil, of equality …
Early Friday morning, rapper Young Stretch, 20, whose real name was Anthony Parks, was shot and killed by two assailants during a music video shoot for his hit song “Bloodbath” in his native Atlanta, Georgia. Four members of Parks’ security team were also killed in the incident, and ten people were injured. Both suspects remain …
If you have read a few of my articles for The DC Voice, you likely know how profound it is to me that Black people have survived and succeeded in quite literally every situation that promised to crush them. I consider it an egregious understatement to simply say that this is something to be proud …
