An interview with Saba: ‘For me, home is the people’
On his third studio album, Few Good Things, the Chicago-born rapper reimagines failure and abundance as he draws on ancestral lessons to build new worlds. Read in the Chicago Reader.
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Tales of the Text: Screened Pt. 2
I wrote this episode of Google award-winning podcast Tales of the Text for teens.
Tales of the Text: Screened Pt. 1
I wrote this episode of Google award-winning podcast Tales of the Text for teens.
Watch ‘Veracity’
Watch Janaya’s latest film Veracity on Amazon Video or stream it on YouTube. Written by Janaya Greene.
The personal and spiritual growth doesn’t stop in Burna Boy’s Twice as Tall
As much as mainstream Western music-media outlets compare contemporary African artists to one another, often flattening the expansiveness of their sounds under a single Afrobeats umbrella, some musicians from the continent continue to prove they’re in a league of their own with every new release. Burna Boy’s fifth studio album, Twice as Tall, is the latest testament… Read More The personal and spiritual growth doesn’t stop in Burna Boy’s Twice as Tall
Will I Find Pride in 2020?
If you let many Black queer folks tell it, Pride isn’t that big of a deal because we’re queer 24/7, all year long. Don’t believe the hype. Read the full story in Medium’s Zora.
Adjust your feminist lens with Hood Feminism
Hood feminism is unabashedly angry, a little asshole-like, proactive, and, sometimes, it’s illegal—but in her latest release writer Mikki Kendall argues that hood feminism is necessary for all women to win. Read the full book review in the Chicago Reader.
D-Composed redefines classical music
Imagine an intimate room full of young children playing decorated DIY shakers and other instruments they’d just learned to make from beans, beads, macaroni, water bottles, and rice; or an audience at a senior citizens’ center cheering on an all-Black string quartet; or a crowd that ranges across the ages in between that’s dancing, mingling,… Read More D-Composed redefines classical music
Kartemquin Films honors Diverse Voices
Los Angeles and New York might still be the film industry’s biggest hubs, but Kartemquin Films is a reminder that, with support, filmmakers can thrive in Chicago too. Read the full story in the Chicago Reader.
The L Word: Generation Q could use more Black love
When I learned The L Word was set for a reboot, unlike many queer folks, I felt nothing. Hear me out: the first season is not well developed–even the biggest of The L Word stans couldn’t and still can’t make it through season one. Read the full story in the Chicago Reader.
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