There Are No More Cookout Invitations

I said this last year, and perhaps the year before last: THERE ARE NO MORE COOKOUT INVITATIONS. Don’t ask me! I can’t speak to nobody else, but I ain’t got …

Decolonize The Podcasts!

In the day in age where we are looking for comfort and COVID symptoms, podcasts help to inform, entertain and pass the time. As the month ends, here are some …

Love To The Negro Leagues

As a reminder: The Negro League Baseball Hall of Fame is in Kansas City, Missouri. Click here to get Negro League merch. I’m a baseball fan. I know, I know–Black, …

Black Writers Matter

I’m a Black writer. I am a writer who happens to be Black. In this, the blackest of all months, I remember this frightening fact: I would be murdered for …

The Black Voice Actor

With everything digital, the way that we read is becoming that much more modern as well. And with more black writers, riding more black stories, and with the superpower of …

We Still Stand With Meg

We are now, always, and will ever be Team Black Woman. -JBH In December 2022, Megan Jovon Ruth Peete was vindicated. After enduring the most public abuse that any woman …

What Is Safety For Black People?

For my birthday last year I got a self-defense keychain. My adopted Big Sister Kelly told me that I needed to get a gun. And in speaking to the father …

There Are Still Firsts To Be Had

Last year in this space, I celebrated the nomination and eventual confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The first Black woman to be on the United States Supreme …

The Pursuit Of “Clout”

This docuseries is available on YouTube–and chaos available on TikTok everyday. One thing I’m continually fascinated by is the continual sociological experiment known as social media. Which can be an …

For Norah, Yarah, & Rosa

Follow this trio on TT/IG: @norah_yarah_rosa Hip-Hop turns 50 this year. The celebration of Hip-Hop on the Sunday’s Grammys, let’s us know that this genre of music is still most …