One hot summer night in New Orleans in the year 1900, a Black man named Robert Charles and his roommate, Leonard Pierce, were sitting on the steps of an Uptown house. The area they were in was rich and white, a block or so from St Charles Ave. The two…

Black people long for allies. Whether it’s the white guy who attends your Black student group meetings on campus, or the Asian girl you met in your Minority Studies class, something about non-Blacks showing the slightest interest in our affairs warms our hearts. We tell them we need them. We…

In the week following the tragic murder of Nipsey Hussle, his fellow rappers have been going on tangents about leaving the hood for fear of being killed. Coward talk. The exact opposite of what Nipsey stood for. Included in this coward talk has been rappers who, ironically, compare themselves to…

(DISCLAIMER: This writing isn’t meant to ignore or put down any of the popular straight male rappers in the city of New Orleans, but is simply meant to acknowledge the pattern and give props to the MCs. This writer is Black and from Uptown, so no I’m not a white…

In a very controversial interview with V-103 in Atlanta, Katt Williams made some interesting comments about Tiffany Haddish and her recent success in Hollywood. Whether or not he was “hating on her” I can’t speak to, but a certain aspect of his statements stuck out and deserves to be examined. …

I’m on that dope It ain’t no secret, but that shit ain’t shive How Ima stay high, stay shive, and get mine? I can’t do it so I gotta try and kick the habit Or that million I want, I might not ever have it (B.G. — “Doing Bad” 1996) …

September, 2015. I was in a Photography class at UL Lafayette, and our latest assignment was to Photoshop ourselves into a historical picture. One of my classmates edited themselves into a photo of the Berlin Wall coming down, another classmate chose to walk on the moon with Neil Armstrong; all…