There is a war in Eastern Europe. The people are in awe. In the past 96 hours I have witnessed the talking heads that assault cable news unable to fathom the collapse of a “civilized” nation. It does not take much for one to realize they use “civilized” as a…

Part 1 in a series. Modern Christianity is at a crossroads. See what I did there? No, but seriously, I would like to issue a challenge to all adherents of mainstream Christianity. I am not in any way challenging the validity of your beliefs. I was raised in the Evangelical…

The last 12 months has been inordinately heavy in this country, and so have my creative pursuits. It’s been hard to write anything for the love of it. It’s been hard to write anything at all. But that changes today! As many of you know, music is very important to…

The 2020’s were looked at optimistically by so many of us, just a few years ago. As I sit here listening to the Ghostface Killah classic, “Supreme Clientele”, I hear the ambition that comes with art made at the beginning of a decade. The promise of a new leaf, freshly…

Death I was going to do things today but I can’t because somebody died by the hands of the police and the police were not charged for it. They announced this today. So I and the Black people of a nation are again faced to come to terms with the…

How long does it take you to realize you’re in a room full of racists? For me it takes approximately 2–3 seconds to do a complete room scan and maybe another 3 to process what I just saw. At that point I will have successfully taken the temperature of the…

I was diagnosed with borderline/bipolar disorder in late 2017 after a manic episode that, for all intents and purposes, ruined my life at the time. I was set to attend college for my junior year, I had just finished my thesis on Daoism and was looking forward to becoming a…

Let me start off by coming clean: I have done many things that other people would not do. Things that I wouldn’t do again, but things that I did because I thought I had to, out of desperation. This life has been too much, and let me be clear when…

People already forgot about Frank Ocean. They may not quite have forgotten about the two albums he gave us just a few weeks ago, but no longer are people clamoring for a glimpse of the man with the same fervor. We got what we wanted. I admire Frank possibly more…