blackstories - cultursmag https://www.cultursmag.com Transform from cultural outlier to original. Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:06:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.cultursmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Globe_B-100x100.png blackstories - cultursmag https://www.cultursmag.com 32 32 What ‘Greyboy’ Can Teach Us About the Complexity of the Black Experience https://www.cultursmag.com/what-greyboy-can-teach-us-about-the-complexity-of-the-black-experience/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.cultursmag.com/?p=46570 Cole Brown’s recent book, “Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World,” does not mince words about how messy the Black experience can be. The title was inspired by an Amiri Baraka poem that says: “The ghost you see in the mirror, is it really you, can you swear you are not an imitation grayboy.” Over […]

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