Black Reads: Issue 011
Jeezy might be on tour, but can he take us back to the time when he dropped the hit we all loved, "My president is Black, my Lambo's blue, and I be goddamned if my rims ain't too."
Every month, I set my calendar with high expectations for myself, and “Black Reads” always has a theme until I curate the newsletter. Truthfully, I’m battling with myself the whole day before it publishes because I ask myself every time why can’t I stick to the theme? The truth is, this ain’t that newsletter, and I really need to let it go.
“Black Reads” is not about me, you, her, him, them, or they. This newsletter is for us to enjoy our words, our experiences, our stories, together. Maybe this eclipse season is rewiring something within my mind, but more on that for a new series coming out on Sunday for the astrology lovers.
Currently, I’ve been in my unlearning, studying, and sharpening my critical thinking skills to understand our history. I love when we share our work in the chat because we see how intrinsically connected we all are without anything other than divine guidance.
might have been giving us the run-down on grad school, but for me, and hopefully you too, something in my brain clicked after reading this. Who is ready for a study group? I sure am!
Initially, I was going to make this a music-themed “Black Reads” issue this week; however, it’s not music reviews I was thinking of, it was this article. I just didn’t know it at the time.
is right, hip-hop journalism is dead. Must read!
It’s been about a week and a half since the Blackstack Salon, and this essay by
has been on my mind since it was published. If you hold writing spaces for writers and you provide prompts, then you know the feeling when the prompt unleashes something within the group, and the words flow better than you imagined. That’s what happened here, and Rachael has had my mind less focused on 47 and more on what we can do now, as a collective.
We’ve all heard the saying, but how many of us have ever sat down to think about what it’s actually saying? This is one of my favorite things about
writing, he makes you think, but beyond where you’d normally stop. His racing thoughts become contagious, and in my opinion, his work just doesn’t get enough love in the way he gives so much to us.
Our Recipe: Flip The Damn Pyramid
This piece came out of one of many thought-provoking conversations had between Jacquie and I, which are consistently orientated around our general love of blackness, Black art, and Black talent, and ask w…
Thank you for the mention! That means a lot to me :)