Kanye As A Measure of Confidence: Get Your Kanye Up!

The question used to be how can you boost your confidence, now the question is how can you get your Kanye up. How can you boost your #Kanyedence?

The Intersections of Urban Geography & Technology: What Progress Can Look Like

Inspired by my…

7 “Ridiculous” Artworks That Make Perfect Sense and Have Changed The Art Historical Discourse

by Hasabie Kidanu

Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael have rolled over thrice in their graves. And the days the likes of Renaissance masters…

Urban Up Close: Geographies of Diversity & Senegalese Men in Madrid’s Lavapiés

Urban Up Close: Bob Marley and the Trenchtown Squatters

“When yuh step it’s nah right-left like dey teach yuh, it’s right-forward.”

-Stoneman, Management team of Trenchtown Culture Yard & Trenchtown resident

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Don’t sleep on Oakland — not just Ryan Coogler

The origin/evolution of many Black creative talents & social justice leaders

Black Solidarity Goes Both Ways: American-Centrism and Transnational Activism

Do you know the names: Kingsley Chinagorom Echeta, Adama Traoré, Mzee Mohammed, Zyed Benna, Bouna Traoré, Laye Kondé?

Part III — Jericho, Jerusalem, Jordan: The Centers of the Beginning of Civilization

[I can write whole essays about these two cities and this one country, but I tried my best not to]

“You will find lots of people in Jericho who…

Roma Gypsies: An Example of 1,500 Years of Resistance to “Integration”

My sister came to visit me in Madrid during Easter Break and I was happy to see some of Madrid’s “must-see” tourist sites. In addition to a couple of Royal Palace’s and almost every Botanical Garden in the…