Feburary, 2021, I am celebrating a big personal milestone. My short film entitled Running for My Life was accepted to the one of the world’s largest and most prestigeous film festivals (which is also a Black film festival), the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF). …
These three people are my property managers, who we pay rent to every month. September 1st was the last time we gave them our rent because our building that we currently live in was sold. The 4-plex in Leimert Park that I call home has been in my family for…
It’s 2:42am, and I can’t sleep.
Instead, I’m on Instagram.
After running through the usual gambit of timeline searching which includes “catching up with friends”, memes, and comment section wars, I search random hashtags to see things I usually don’t. I go down hashtag click holes which has me looking…
I’m going to attempt to make this short and simple.
My grandmother’s relationship with race is complicated, but it’s also very simple. She is Black.
It’s how she self-identifies, and there’s no type of thinkpiece, viral sensation, or lecture that can convince her otherwise. I don’t mean to minimize other…
I had the privilege of spending Mother’s Day weekend in the town which my partner was born and raised. It’s a small town on the central coast of California called Guadalupe. I’ve joked with her because we have similar anxieties when engaging in small talk. Whenever I have to introduce…
I recently started a new job. The perks are few, and I would describe my specific environment as corporate and stuffy, but there is a great cafe on site where there are entree’s being made, a well stocked salad bar, readymade sandwiches, a great ice cream station which I’ve yet…
There are two types of people — Ones who think Russell Westbrook is showing the greatest display of professional basketball seen in modern NBA history, and those who for each of his daily achievements, have a reason for why it happened, why it shouldn’t have happened, how it would’ve or…
Is Tribe Called Quest’s new album a classic? Is it underwhelming? The best response is, Who Cares?
Being overly critical about the new Tribe Called Quest album, scrutinizing it at every turn makes me reevaluate what made an album “a classic” in the first place. Most albums that we consider…
I recently celebrated my 36th birthday.
I’d like to think that I’m still a young adult, but I’m starting to see those physical and visible signs where my body thinks otherwise. In the grand scheme of things, I have a lot of life yet to live, but I’ve seen a…
This is a story about my beloved grandmother and her dog. She has had other dogs, but this is her last.
My sister has always thought of doing some sort of video project with my grandmother. Her story needs to be told. Every grandmother’s story should be documented. …
