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YouTube sensation Issa Rae has launched a new initiative to help people of color break into the film industry. “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” creator created the Color Creative to give “great writes of color and platform and an audience.”

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis took home four Grammys at last month’s biggest music awards ceremony. Three in rap categories, despite most of the general population categorizing the duo as having a more pop-inclined sound. But according to New York Times contributor Jon Caramanica, they’re not doing anything new. 

For the first time in the history of late night talk shows, a black woman will grace the writers’ room. In fact, Ms. Amber Ruffin will be the first woman of any color to write for a network late night talk show. Ruffin will join Late Night with Seth Meyers as an official member of the show’s […]

  Earlier this week, writer Aisha Harris composed an essay asking for a more inclusive and culturally sensitive Christmas holiday figure.  Harris argued that the image of Santa Claus as a jolly, fat white man propagates the idea of whiteness as a default category, and suggested that he be replaced with a penguin. Of course Fox News got […]

Julie McCown was researching Jupiter Hammon – The first known African American writer to be published in the United States – when she stumbled on a previously unknown poem, dating back to 1786.

A Difficult Miracle: Black Poetics in a Time of Crisis  By Jari Bradley  Prior to the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, I had never been to a writer’s retreat or a poetry workshop, period. The year was 2015, a year at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, a time when the entire country felt […]

By Norrell Edwards, PhD The hypnotic pale blue waves crash against large grey stones; it’s so peaceful—it’s easy to forget we’re at the site of unimaginable historic violence. With my students scattered around me, I stand on haunted ground, Cape Coast Slave Castle and Dungeon.  We’re just a few footsteps from centuries old cannons, right […]

By: Daniel Johnson As the Women’s National Basketball Association marks its 30th, and arguably best season to date, the league’s labor union delivered a landmark collective bargaining agreement in women’s sports. The transformative CBA had the effect of allowing the league’s athletic workers to continue the player-centric momentum which was started in earnest in July […]

By: Nakia Owens Black creators have been expanding anime’s reach for years. The fandom is only now catching up. If you grew up Black and loving anime, you already know the tax. The explaining. The justifying. The convention spaces that felt like they tolerated you. The online discourse that treated your read on a character […]

By: Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem Long before I called myself queer, I called myself gay because it was the only language I had for my attraction to men. Growing up in Nigeria, the word rarely belonged to people like me. Among young people, “gay” was less an identity than an insult, tossed around with the same […]

By: DeLisha Tapscott, Ed.D. Nobody really tells you what happens when you become “the one who made it.”  The phrase itself is complicated because “making it” is not a single destination, nor is it a journey that begins from the same place for everyone. For some, “making it” meant leaving a neighborhood where survival was […]

By: Alana Brown-Davis I’ve been a daughter of the South all of my life. I was born in Alabama and raised in southwest Mississippi. Being Black and Southern meant that I grew up as Christian. Our family typically attended Methodist gatherings but in an effort to get into heaven, we went wherever. The COGIC church […]