Culture Op-Ed

Lack of patience led to lack of nuance, unearned plot, and forgotten storylines.

Black women are always expected to be fountains of forgiveness.

Making Depp the show’s Moon Person sent a bizarre message.

We need to reimagine the future of festivals in a post-quarantine, crowd-hungry environment.

I have been on the bathroom floor with only a few units left like Cassie.

The scene might be intentionally uncomfortable, but the choice betrays the show’s only two Black leads.

Even if you’re planning to attend a big, celebratory event.

History is repeating itself, with white people reframing Black people’s neutral states or our valid anger as threatening to them.

The audacity.

Megan Thee Stallion has become a target of harassment, and we can’t ignore it.

A show that is famous for being larger than life has managed to make the big girl…small.

Fans think race has played a factor.

Every new thing Travis Scott does raises more questions or criticisms than it does provide answers. What can fans do to find their own?

If you held our outrage in the same regard you held Black culture, maybe you’d listen.

In all its nuance, romance, and messiness.

“White Lotus” highlights what failure looks like in interracial friendships.

The strike essentially showed that TikTok is so intertwined with Black culture that the system is fueled by what Black people are doing and what they refuse to do.

If Black Latinx people weren’t already systematically excluded from Hollywood and Latinx media, the lack of dark-skinned Black leads in In the Heights would not have occurred.

Her latest move is a return to old Taylor, but the stakes are higher now.