Soundtracks For The Soul: Jay Electronica | A Written Testimony

“Sometimes I was held down by the gravity of my pen… Sometimes I was held down by the gravity of my sin… Sometimes, like Santiago, at crucial points of my novel, my only logical option was to transform into the wind”

– Jay Electronica | Ezekiel’s Wheel

White Privilege Masks My Ethnic Name in Plain Sight

What if my name was Rei Don? Ray’Donna? La Reida? Do those variations wave a familiar flag, something one can ethnically identify? If you could put a face to those names, would it include my fair skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes?

The Myth of ‘The Good Negro’

We cannot reserve humane treatment for people who fit the description of a Huxtable family. Nor can we reserve it for men and women who, though Black, meet the favored Eurocentric aesthetics. It shouldn’t take three degrees, a six-figure income, homeownership, and an extensive vocabulary just for the possibility of earning human decency from our fellow man.

Black Studies Part III: The First Kings In World History

For too long we’ve lived with the lie that Africa is the “dark continent” and had always needed a helping hand from Western influences to bring herself out of “development.” When in fact, it was Africa who first brought the world out of the darkness.