By Marc W. Polite Hip-Hop as a music genre is 50 years old. The celebrations marking its foundation in 1973 were plentiful last year. Yet, something appeared to be missing […]
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Black literature and social commentary
By Marc W. Polite Hip-Hop as a music genre is 50 years old. The celebrations marking its foundation in 1973 were plentiful last year. Yet, something appeared to be missing […]
Read moreBy Marc W. Polite Movies about writers are few and far between. Especially when we’re talking about Black writers and the struggle to successfully navigate through the publishing industry. “American […]
Read moreBy Marc W. Polite Films about historical events are often a hard sell. Regarded by some as a dry discipline that has very little to do with our current reality, […]
Read moreIn April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located in the heart of Harlem. […]
Read moreBy Marc W. Polite (Alert: some spoilers appear in this review. Read at your own risk.) Greetings, everyone. This weekend, I decided to see Jordan Peele’s latest film “NOPE”. The […]
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