• " tell the black girls " by Lamont Lilly (2016) --- Lilly toasts Black women in his poem, noting an inheritance passed down to t...

Howard Rambsy: You mentioned seeing Sinners  in IMAX—was that for both viewings? If not, how did the IMAX experience compare to the other on...

Last Thursday the day after checking out Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners , I sent out message to the folks in our African American literary stu...

For now, I'll say this: that music scene where the guy is playing the blues and then things shift, and we're led to think about West...

Rie'Onna Holmon What struck me most, though, is how that act of mimicry isn't just visual—it’s spiritual theft. Remmick is the emb...

One more thing, Smoke and Stack alone demands a deep dive into this film. As a twin, I have to say this is by far the best portrayal of twin...

• Blues People (1963) by Amiri Baraka is a pathbreaking cultural history that traces the continuum of Black music, from spirituals and blue...

Jalen White  [Sinners] is also such a great portrayal of the power of non-Western information. The characters who are confined by the rules ...