Blackness
The Importance Of Ebro’s Commentary On Puerto Rico And Blackness
Following Trump’s pompous visit to the hurricane-ravaged island of Puerto Rico, Hot 97’s Ebro Darden took to the airwaves to discuss race, namely blackness and the black…
Azealia Banks Not Only Loves “Bodak Yellow,” She Low Key Loves Cardi B
“You got a lot, but you just waste all yours and/They’ll forget your name soon, and won’t nobody be to blame but yourself, yeah.” —Azealia Banks, “212” — Azealia Banks…
Amid Latino Heritage Month, Here’s The Very Necessary Junot Diaz Interview About Being A Child Of Blackness, Product Of The African Diaspora
At the start of this year’s Latino Heritage Month emerged a searing interview between Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author, Krista…
Reclaiming Blackness: NPR’s ‘Latino USA’ Dives Into What It Means To Be Afro-Latino
Afro-Latinidad hasn’t always been the easiest term to classify or describe. But luckily the latest episode of NPR’s “Latino USA Roundtable” offered some insight on what…
Gucci Presents Black “Soul Scene” Campaign, But Are We Buying It?
The iconic Italian brand unveils its latest ad campaign for its pre-fall 2017 collection “Soul Scene,” which features an all-black bevy of models donning Alessandro…
Can Afro-Latinos Please Move Beyond The “I’m Black, Too” Rhetoric?
The reason why people don’t understand why you can be both black and Latino at the same time is because the media doesn’t present it that way and we don’t see it, and I t…