Alls my life I has to fight, n*gga Alls my life I I couldn’t tell you which Black death — murder, really — caused me to first play Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright.” But I know I played it in the minutes...

  “Strange Fruit” has become a protest song over the years because it pulls no punches. The referenced “fruit” are Black men and women who have been lynched in this country. I imagine there was a...

  I have heard the echo of all of us being exhausted on all levels. We fall into despair when thinking about changing a whole system rooted in racism and hatred. It feels too big for a people who are...

To my mentors and comrades in arms “Playing Possum” is a track from Earl Sweatshirt’s Some Rap Songs that contains no hooks, or even any rapping from Earl himself. Instead, Earl samples recordings of...

When I was a kid, “Young, Gifted and Black” was a community-wide anthem of Black pride. Every time I heard the song, it was like she was singing directly to me, reminding me of my worth and potenti...

Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. Atatiana Jefferson. Rayshard Brooks. The list, unfortunately, runs long, and it begs the question, “What’s going on?” For America, the answer is past due. When I first...