How to Make the Most of Your Essence Festival Weekend Essence Festival is a unique opportunity for the black community to come together and connect over shared cultural experiences. Just like how college allows students to explore different areas of knowledge, Essence Festival allows attendees to immerse themselves in different aspects of black culture. From the powerful keynote speeches by black thought leaders, to the electrifying performances by legendary...
Black & Brown Unity
Major Shout Out to our friends from the Moses West Foundation for pulling up to Jackson Mississippi with the water making machine! For those who are unfamiliar, Moses West is the brother who created an atmospheric water generator (AWG) machine that creates clean drinking water from air! Jackson is currently relying heavily on scarce supplies of bottled water. Moses West, a former US Army ranger has a vision of...
And before somebody asks, YES, I have seen both the phone video from the couple and the body cam footage from Atlanta PD and my perspective on the situation has not changed, the officer, the person with power in the situation, was dead ass wrong for dragging that sister and ultimately for there even being an encounter in the first place. Here we will discuss the legal flaws in...
I don’t blame pops at all for getting up out of his seat for Mya! Photographer AShotOfLee captured this incredible moment of Mr. Isaac Henry Petty, Jr. and rnb superstar Mya in Charleston, West Virginia at Multifest 32! When asked about the experience that she captured the photographer/videographer stated, “He’s such an awesome person and was so excited to meet Mya. He owned his moment!” The audience went wild...
Being a great writer means, well, how the fuck should I know? I’m just so-so. But I THINK it means a lot of things. A lot of similar attributes are universally attached to all great writers, with one of them being vulnerability. Entertainingly vulnerable is a chore. A writer like Kendrick Lamar has the gift of letting us, the stranger; and us, his reader, into his space while keeping...
