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What is J. Cole’s beef with “cancel culture”?
What is J. Cole’s beef with “cancel culture”?
J. Cole — a self-proclaimed “conscious” rapper has an issue with “PC culture” and “cancel culture” alike. What’s “conscious” about that?
Julian Akil Rose
Apr 23
“The City That Was in a Forest: Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People” — Full Interview…
“The City That Was in a Forest: Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People” — Full Interview…
the raw uncut interview and essay — with the full audio and transcript
Julian Akil Rose
Dec 1, 2023
Transitions Are Dead To Me.
Transitions Are Dead To Me.
“Transition” just doesn’t hit like it used to. Which is to say, transitions are maybe even more dizzying than they were when I was growing…
Julian Akil Rose
Jul 18, 2023
Cops shows that critique cops are still copaganda — a Brooklyn99 viewer
In the wake of the mass mobilizations against police violence in the summer and fall of 2020, many industries have attempted, in their own…
Julian Akil Rose
Feb 22, 2023
Movement superstructures decide which formations access resources, replicating donor relationships
As sociopolitical awareness and mobilization has peaked and sustained over the last decade, the national movement landscape has responded…
Julian Akil Rose
Feb 22, 2023
Representation without solidarity is a skin-deep change (not anti-racism)
In response to recent social movements around race relations and legacies of oppression, organizations and institutions (including colleges…
Julian Akil Rose
Feb 22, 2023
Disability Justice is what will turn learning spaces for some into learning spaces for all
Many educators see the word “disability” and immediately think of the Americans with Disabilities Act, differentiation and accommodations…
Julian Akil Rose
Feb 22, 2023
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