Like millions of people around the United States, I didn’t get to see the Tony Award winning Broadway HIP-HOP musical, Hamilton, when it was performed live. But…… Read more “Hamilton Is Proof the Church Needs Millennials… and Hip-Hop!”
Category: Movies
When They Saw Me: Stories of Police Injustice from My Adolescence Part 3: “You Punks in a Gang?”
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” has to be the single most asked question to kids in school. It’s a loaded question that…… Read more “When They Saw Me: Stories of Police Injustice from My Adolescence Part 3: “You Punks in a Gang?””
When They Saw Me: Stories of Police Injustice from My Adolescence Part 2: Shoplifting Is What Y’all Do!
Kids like us are always being profiled for crime, and kids like us never get treated like kids. We aren’t afforded the opportunity to have our parents called before we are apprehended, or a lawyer present before we are interrogated. We don’t get the luxury to just hang out without the suspicion of doing something wrong. We are assumed to be up to no good just for being in certain spaces, even if we had the freedom and right to be there.
The Jabari Tribe: The Hood of Wakanda
If we don’t give our hoods around the world a seat at the table there will not be any real unity within the Diaspora, and consequently no changes to the oppression we face in the world.
Liberated to Get Out
I can count the moments on one hand where I have been liberated to grow deeper into a conscious understanding of who I am and my relationship…… Read more “Liberated to Get Out”
Preacher with sneakers 