Black Culture
CURLFEST — A Celebration Of African Hair
Hair has been a staple part of African expression for centuries.
Tommy Johnson is Flipping the Script on Tokenization
Have you ever been identified as the token [fill in your most visible identity] representative? Perhaps someone asked you, as the only Black person in the room, what the group can do to make people of color feel more included. […]
Failure, Madea, and the significance of Tyler Perry’s Governors Award
Tyler Perry’s quilt is made up of great struggles and great triumphs. His quilt tells the story of a man who fought great adversity in order to not only empower himself, but to empower other Black and African-American creatives. How […]
Part II of VI: What Blackness Looks Like- HOW DO YOU NAVIGATE LIFE WHEN WHITE IS THE STATUS QUO AND ANYTHING ELSE IS “OTHER?”
Britain’s racism hasn’t disappeared; it’s just gone underground. When white is the status quo and anything‘other’ is exactly that, where do you go? For me, it’s Morocco.