Black History

EXPERIENCE, Museums & Art Exhibitions, Music

Exhibit Review | HIP-HOP AMERICA: The Mixtape Exhibit, Grammy Museum, L.A.

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Hip Hop? It’s the very essence of being a renegade, a cultural revolution born from the raw artistic expression  of DJs and MCs back in the day in New York’s park of Sedgwick and Cedar. They were all about bending words, crafting wild sounds with whatever was at hand. The GRAMMY Museum has curated the “Hip Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit” to  dive into this journey, showcasing how a 50-year legacy of curiosity has pushed not just the music but the whole hip hop culture forward.

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Books, EXPERIENCE

Book Review | ‘The Audacity of Hope’: Is it Time to Rethink Our Role in Democracy?

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Nearly twenty years after its original publication, Barack Obama’s statement on the political
landscape in the U.S. at the time eerily rings true today as it did in 2006.

The notion that what ‘binds us together is greater than what drives us apart’ is truly the only path for a great society to pursue the vision of an equitable, diverse, accessible and inclusive nation.

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EXPERIENCE, Film

Film Review | Till, Starring Danielle Deadwyler and Jalyn Hall

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Being ignorant of Emmett’s experience, I was horrified by the story.  It overfilled my senses with the global collective of the beyond-painful memories of the historical records of oppression and abuses perpetrated by humans.  It easily could have pushed me into a ‘useless emotional state,’ yet I was surprisingly and thankfully impressed by the film’s excellence as an art form.

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