Living Our Ancestors Dreams: A Juneteenth Call to Action

My paternal grandfather was former President of Liberia, the late William R. Tolbert Jr. I do not often share this publicly, but I have felt spiritually moved to recently. My paternal lineage was repatriated to Africa by the American Colonization Society. I share this today because I am very much the literal dream of what a freed slave has the potential to create, and so are you, my Black family across the globe.

Open LetterVie DarlingJune 19, 2021personal, op-ed, open letter, liberia, blackness, black power

Institutional Critique: Some Thoughts

EditorialVie DarlingNovember 25, 2020contemporary art, institution, rap/hip-hop, race relations, black power, blackness, sociology, identity, identity politics, revolution, hip-hop, philosophy, politics, media, music, op-ed, opinion editorial Comment

Black Excellence (For Whatever That Means)

It is less okay to speak openly about real live conspiracies such as the fact that the CIA has openly admitted to causing civil insurrection abroad to destabilize governments for their own means than to mind Black people’s business.

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