Black Jesus Will Save Your Soul
An exploration of the late Rev. James Cone’s radical theology.
The Indypendent
Nicholas Powers
If Roseanne Barr was Puerto Rico
If Roseanne Barr died 4,645 times, death upon death; if she were lost like screams in a hurricane; like…
Black Pride in ‘Black Panther’
Was this the Promised Land? Black people partied on the escalator. I was going to my seat and asked…
Dystopian themes abound in popular culture. In a world wracked by climate change, war, mass migration and a growing gulf between the super-rich and everyone else, imagining the worst has become its own industry. But what might it feel like to live and work in a future society that has begun to heal a damaged planet even as people continue to be their messy, imperfect selves?
“Now I’m afraid,” she said. “I wasn’t before. Too privileged to feel fear.” The protest at Trump Tower was…
Fury Road (In Praise of Wendi Wright)
He was trying to kill them, American Style, all smiles and handshakes
The End of White Respectability
“Flava Flav should run for president,” I told my friends. “Donald Trump? Really? We’ve got better celebrities.” They laughed…