Writer and Culture Worker from M.E.M.P.H.I.S.
Standing atop a summit in Potrero Hill with you in 2004 and seeing the city, and seeing the gentrification unfold before me as if the scene were time-lapsed, I understood the violence that simmered in you. Growing up in a complicated home amid the … [Continue reading]
In the late 1990s, as hip-hop music underwent a fundamental shift caused in part by its increasing popularity and proliferation on the radio airwaves, the genre’s newfound success necessitated new symbols and metaphors. While gold had long been the … [Continue reading]
In Ralph Ellison’s 1944 review of Gunnar Myrdal’s The American Dilemma, he begins by describing his feelings about the massive work thusly: "…the Negro must, while joining in the chorus of “Yeas” which the book has so deservedly evoked, utter a … [Continue reading]
**TRIGGER WARNING**: RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT **SPOILER ALERT, even though you already know this story or ain’t going to see it anyway.** On opening night of Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor I was down … [Continue reading]
My sister and I would have contests to see who could say it the fastest. The winner would also have to nail the neck roll, eye roll, and index finger in the air simultaneously. Grand prize would go to the one who could contextualize it with the best … [Continue reading]
I knew we would be served Steel Magnolias in blackface, but I didn’t care. The idea of representations of black (southern) women on television was enough reason to tune in to Lifetime’s star-studded remake of the classic southern white women’s tear … [Continue reading]
That's right. I'm migrating from tumblr to here at New South Negress so you and I both can find my posts and remember what I said about what. I guess this is like the Great Migration. Except I ain't going North. I'm moving from the small-town South … [Continue reading]