Mo(u)rning in American 2017

On September 11, 2001 I was a 32 year old professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, making a left turn onto Forest Park on the way to work. As I listened to The Tom Joyner morning show Joyner and his crew made to joke about a plane flying into the...

Black Studies 3.0

A few weeks ago I listened to a WDET interview with Errol Henderson on the 45th anniversary of the development of black studies. Check it out. In the wake of the rise of black student protests over the past few years, more than a few of us have been thinking about...

Prince is Dead. Fuck.

“Art among us blacks has always been a statement about our condition, and therefore it has always been political.” —Ossie Davis Richard Iton’s In Search of the Black Fantastic is one of the most important book written about popular culture and politics ever written....