“Writing is an often-painful task that can feel like the death of one’s past. Equally discomfiting is seeing one’s present commitments to truths crumble once one begins to tap away at the keyboard or scar the page with ink. Writing demands a different sort of apprenticeship to ideas than does speaking. It beckons one to… Continue reading Carving The Rosetta Stone: Elzhi’s Lead Poison Review
Author: Alonge Hawes
Alonge Hawes is a writer from Stone Mountain, GA and the creator of the Blue Collar Hustle web series. in his spare time he enjoys studying African American history and obsessively deciphering the lyrics of Nas, Kendrick Lamar, and Common.
Soul by The Shade – On Survivor’s Remorse Episode: “The Photoshoot”
“MOST publications lighten darker people, because lighter skin and hair reflect more light and are more eye catching, magazines are after all a business. BUT! For example: Where ARE the cameras that make brown skin look amazing? Oprah has them I can tell you that! But in general, lights and cameras are ALWAYS tuned for… Continue reading Soul by The Shade – On Survivor’s Remorse Episode: “The Photoshoot”
Insecurity In Atlanta: Donald Glover and Issa Rae’s New Black Media Movement
Black love, provide the adequate electric for what is lapsed and lenient in us now. Rouse us from blur, Call us. Call adequately the postponed corner brother. And call our man in the pin-stripe suiting and restore him to his abler logic; to his people. Call to the shattered sister and repair her in her… Continue reading Insecurity In Atlanta: Donald Glover and Issa Rae’s New Black Media Movement
The Sword And The Sermon: A Review Of The Birth Of A Nation
In the course of time Moses grew up. Then he went to see his own people and watched them suffering under forced labor. He saw a Hebrew, one of his own people, being beaten by an Egyptian. He looked all around, and when he didn’t see anyone, he beat the Egyptian to death and hid… Continue reading The Sword And The Sermon: A Review Of The Birth Of A Nation