Washington, D.C., suburb Alexandria, Va., is the top place to visit in 2018. According to the Washington Post, in an…

2017 and 2018 have been years of exploration and discovery for me so far. I’ve taken time to examine a lot about my…

Hey, young world (who lives in the greater Los Angeles area or has lots of money and time to fly out to L.A.)! Do…

I got my results back from AncestryDNA. About damn time, too. I was like a crackhead, checking my email every single…

Common is killing the game; or, in today’s parlance, Common has secured the bag. I’m almost 40 years old, which…

The Washington, D.C., area is under a high-wind warning. There are winds gusting at up to 60 miles per hour. In the…

I love cats. You could even call me a cat person. Have you looked at pictures of cats online? It’s riveting shit. I…

A lot of eyes in the black community will be on this Sunday’s 90th Academy Awards. Thanks to films Get Out and Mudbo…

I was recently profiled for AL.com, the digital outlet for three of Alabama’s largest newspapers: the Birmingham…

In the black American community, there are a few cultural items revered historically and across regions of blackness…

Today, the final installment of the documentary The Loving Generation was released (please go check out “Episode 1:…

Anybody who came of age in the ’90s is familiar with 2 Live Crew and Uncle Luke. They brought us classics like “Me…

I’m a creative. I like to think that I’m good at it. At the very least, I’m good enough at it to get paid to do it…

When I was in ninth grade, I had a classmate named Chris. Chris was your typical badass: a little older than the…

I’m in a real, grown-up relationship. We’re engaged, but it already involves kids, a mortgage, car payments, bills,…

Yesterday I saw Drake’s video for “God’s Plan,” the song he dropped a few weeks back that is currently sitting atop…

As an alumnus of Morehouse College and a staunch advocate for HBCUs, I was very excited to finally see the Stanley…

For roughly the past six months, I’ve had the opportunity to talk and write about my family in a way that is more…

The Roots’ fourth album, 1999’s Things Fall Apart, is largely regarded as the album that put them over the top.…

I had the opportunity to see Black Panther on Tuesday afternoon. If you’ll remember, I don’t know shit about Black Panther