Video Game Review | Coffee Talk
Some days are perfect to curl up with a book and a good cup of tea. What if I told you that there is…
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Film Review | The Invisible Man (2020)
What if the thing you feared most was invisible to everyone around you, even yourself? For Cecilia Kass, that nightmare is her reality. After…
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Book Review | White Swan and the Heavenly Lake
In White Swan and the Heavenly Lake, first-time novelist Kim Aasland has crafted her own take on the swan princess myth and its connection…
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The Drew | Summer League in South Los Angeles
“They know I’m ballin ‘in the city like DeRozan’ is one of the stand out lines in the classic Roddy Ricch tune “Die Young” which holds more and more truth every year Demar DeRozan decides to pop out to come play in the popular Los Angeles pro am Drew League.
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Oakland Forever
Town Bizness Oakland – The City & Pride & Purpose “Wakanda Forever” sounds good. But, where I’m from–Town Bizness is what the Eastside of…
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Snapshot | Perspective on Gun Violence in America as Processed by 8 Student Reporters
The assignment was simple: retrieve comments on gun violence in 15-minutes. Then out through the USC campus they went; my eager student reporters from the Annenberg Specialized Journalism…
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Juneteenth Celebration | Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA
The Leimert Park Juneteenth celebration is essentially a large family reunion to bring the Black community of LA together. It is designed to give back to Black owned businesses within the south Los Angeles area exposure, and to create awareness of the Black creative community in Leimert Park.
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Film Festival | Black August Film Festival Debuts in Pasadena, CA
Local film makers Dennis Haywood and James Farr are contributing to the cause of justice via film again – this time through the founding and hosting an international film festival with it’s inaugural debut this month in Pasadena, CA on Saturday, August 13th, 2022.
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Exhibit Review | Takashi Murakami- Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow @ The Broad
Out of defiance for the Western-dominated art world, Murakami created his own movement called Superflat. The name refers both to the flattened compositions that lacked one point perspective of historical Japanese artistic movements such as Nihonga, as well as to the flattening (or merging) of art and commerce.
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Next Gen Young Women Standing Tall
“Never insult Albus Dumbledore in front of me.” ~ Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Never insult the younger generations in front of me.” ~ Georgia Sanders, Culture Honey Magazine
The idea to honor these Next Gen young women culminated for me while watching 26 year old Cassidy Hutchinson give her ground-shifting testimony …
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Essay & Lament | Boarding Schools – Weaponized for Cultural & Religious Indoctrination
Before we spend the effort to understand the situation in China, it is vital for us, as people of good will in the United States, as well as in Canada, to examine our own history with Native American boarding schools.
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In Regard of an Activist, Dr. Melina Abdullah: Your Eyes Don’t Lie
Each social media post. Every media report. And every time, eye read one of the innumerous white supremacist rhetoric and propaganda about you and the work you do, and eye see why you can’t look the other way.
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