Every time I cook, I feel a need to put on music. It’s most often R&B to ring through the kitchen as I prepare food. It’s always music that’s easy to love by a variety of ages and tastes. It always feels like the most natural thing to do. When I cook near white people, …
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As a Black American one thing that constantly plagues my life is a lack of representation. When people think of representation we often think of visual representations first. Although as a country we have gotten better about showing more diversity in film, we are still struggling with everyday life. Take a moment and notice how …
Oh no! You were called out on shitty behavior and now you not only feel ignorant, and silly, but possibly a lot of other feelings, including defensive. I’m not going to pull my punches in this post where I tell you what your next steps should be and how to not make things worse for the people …
With #notmyariel going around, it seems like a great time to talk about representation! Racism aside, one of the major quoted reason against changing things about a character is often this implied entitlement. People might say: “Why fix what’s not broken? Isn’t changing things about beloved characters ruining them? It’s so unnecessary… and so must be PC …
So, you wanna be inclusive? A question that gets thrown around woke communities all the time is “how do we get more diversity” and honestly you probably aren’t going to like my answer… Get, uncomfortable. Uncomfortable? What’s that got to do with anything? Well, more than you think. If you are white in America I …
“Don’t you fucking dare!” I mumbled to myself as I hear the question echoing in my head. “Do you know how to play wade in the water?” It’s my grandfathers funeral and I’m 7 in awe and bewitched by the magic of the singing around me. Through songs I could hear their morning, their grief, …
For years there has been an ongoing debate about the importance of dressing up at social dances. Understand that dressing up is a part of the culture if you are doing an African American vernacular dance. I’m going to explore why dressing up matters, how it shows up often in Black Culture as a means …
A complicated topic few in America causally talk about is what to call the Americans that descended from Slaves. Over the years what is considered disrespectful has changed and currently the American Culture seems to be split between if using the term African American or Black is better. With this complicated topic I think it’s …
Luckily I feel like this question is fading away but I’ve heard it’s floating around still, “why are there no Blues dance elders” The answer to me has always been obvious. White people never picked it up. Yeah, I said it. I bet many of you are confused. What does white people liking a thing …
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