Five thoughts about Grammy hopes, Iran, workers seeking change at the Obama Foundation, clingy businesses, and School Days at 50. one. never been a big grammy fan buti’d rawk with members ofextreme and living colour any daymilitia vox and corey glover coverbryan adams and tina turner’s“it’s only love”with nuno bettencourt and vernon reidholdin’ it down […]
Read More Tano — Oct 10, 2026Tano, October 3, 2026: Adult DVD’s debut, Jamilah Lemieux’s post, Cornell allegations, fading American habits, and Once Upon a Time in Harlem.
Read More Tano — October 3, 2026Five thoughts about historic art, modern wartime performance art, real estate, and an unsung star. one. experiment in starting a fight today12th–18th century ife and benin sculpturesset for nigerian ownershipand a renewable 25-year loan to the metindigenous art justice remixed or sumpn else? two. speakin’ of i dunnonyc acted like a private landlordchashama’s losing half […]
Read More Tano — Sep 27, 2026Even stars chase clout for more shine, but that’s not the real problem. After shrugging my shoulders and giving a gas face while watching The Shade Room’s Instagram reel of singer and actor Tyrese Gibson blasting the Biden-Harris administration for signing the so-called Asian Hate Crime Bill while ignoring the safety needs of Black and […]
Read More Tyrese’s Ignorance of the ‘Asian Hate Crimes Bill’ — Symptom of a Disease Too Big for Him To SeeThe show started streaming on Hulu last night. Those with eyes have witnessed this real-life story before: people guilty of working while Black in White spaces while the latter thinks it’s trying sooo hard to decriminalize the former’s daily identity that the outcome can be outrageously funny. And simply outrageous. You can replace “Black” with […]
Read More “The Other Black Girl” Floored Folks in Book Form, and It’s Now a TV SeriesSaoul’s Popsicle may be one of the most sobering groovalicious parties in your ear this summer — a satisfying album in the face of “cookie-cutter” celeb culture and politico worship that have packaged themselves to become a new phallic north star for unicultural market appeal. Had enough of unhealthy celeb admiration, and public debates about […]
Read More Album in the Crosshairs: Saoul — Popsicle | 2023 | Phreakyamind IncPlaced another way, I don’t plan to watch the new Netflix Series. The way I see it, May 19, 2018 marks the day Meghan Markle married into one of the world’s oldest crime families. This is a family who is carrying centuries of gun running, human trafficking, colonialism, mass property theft, murder, and instigation of […]
Read More Aren’t You Over These Duke and Duchess of Sussex Stories by Now?The show uses the horror genre to cover an awful and unspoken truth about White supremacy. I remember former Last Poets member Felipe Luciano telling an audience that art is useless if it doesn’t slap the shit out of you, or make you wanna slap the shit out of someone else. My guess is that […]
Read More Them on Amazon is a very violent series, but you should stream itFile under #Trifling. HuffPost reports that the alt-right — in the form of a group named Down with Disney — plans to destroy Marvel Black superhero movie Black Panther’s Rotten Tomatoes critics score, possibly through the bots used by the same group to attack The Last Jedi film. While we’re only talking about a movie […]
Read More Alt-right still mad that Black Panther movie isn’t all-WhiteI’m currently reflecting on the loss of Dick Gregory, who was 84. While much of the media will spend the day filling your ears with love-in stories about how much of a good comedian he was — a point I can definitely nod my head to — you likely won’t hear much about the context […]
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