Please hear me when I say that, as a Black animation fan, I wanted to love Pixar’s Soul with every fiber of my being. I mean that. I saw that single photo of the barbershop and knew that if only one good thing came out of 2020 it was going to be Soul. Was it? Nah, but that’s not why we’re here.
Read MoreHBO’s Watchmen vexes me so much because it's apparently about Black people and I can’t help but wonder: why?
Read MoreOver the last year and a half I’ve been making a good faith effort to seek out a good therapist. Even before the pandemic my anxiety had reached heights where I was worrying myself and some people that cared about me. I have been blessed with many gifts in my life but the patience for understanding bureaucracy is not one of them.
Read MoreAnother chapter in the mystical life of Sam Hart.
Read MoreI’ve lived in New York long enough to know that everyone doesn’t have the same reverence for Dwayne Carter that I do. Everybody hasn’t seen a club erupt from the first four chords of his rendition of “Sky’s the Limit,” but yes, America, from 2005-2008, Lil Wayne was the greatest rapper alive, and he has never fallen out of the top tier.
Read MoreAs much as the 2010s birthed black excellence (both in terms of the volume and quality of black art produced in this decade as well as the actual phrase “black excellence”) it was also a decade marred by black death.
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