Broken Bonds: Why Friendship Break-ups Hit Different
J Hall
June 18, 2021
One night while home from college I foolishly got into a car with a Big Homie who’d had one too many drinks. It was storming.
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Diagnosis Negative: Black People’s Distrust of the U.S. Medical System Explained
J Hall
June 3, 2021
Announcement of the Covid-19 vaccine birthed multiple end-of-days conspiracies online. Like the one that claimed a syringe shot contains microchip locators marked by Thanos because
DMX: The Legend of Dark Man
J Hall
April 13, 2021
“Stop, drop, shut ’em down, open up shop…” In the beginning, DMX (X) did not have a fan in me. My young Hip Hop heart
Camera-Ready: 7 Black Women Filmmakers to Watch
J Hall
March 26, 2021
The art of storytelling is essential to the Black experience, and who better to narrate than Black women. Here are a few of the many
Low-Key Legends: 7 More Figures to Celebrate This Black History Month
J Hall
February 9, 2021
Black history is not a summary of North-Star-slavery-escape stories that end with Black people receiving their freedom after a famous (often shortened) dream speech. Blackness’s
Tales from the Whack Side: We Need to Admit These 9 Myths Are Wrong
J Hall
January 29, 2021
1. Blacks do not feel pain. According to a 20-year meta-analysis study, this myth is so believed that Black patients are 22% less likely to
Banking on Black Bodies: Why Black Pain Pays
J Hall
January 29, 2021
There are few guarantees in life: Popcorn will always taste better at the movies, student loan debt will follow you to the grave, and America
Who Can I Run To? The Search for Black Male Vulnerability
J Hall
January 22, 2021
When I was 5 and learning to ride a bike for the first time without training wheels, I accidentally hit a crack in the sidewalk
Music to Live By: 15 Albums That Got Us Through 2020
J Hall
December 23, 2020
The year 2020 has been a lot, but it’s good to know that music was the one failsafe thing to count on during quarantine time
Black Shade: The Complex Relationship between Africans and African Americans
J Hall
December 23, 2020
The African and African American experiences are a world apart, and yet all in the same orbit. Our strained relationship was birthed from the Middle
Who Got Next?: Jemele Hill on the Future of HBCU Sports
J Hall
December 11, 2020
As sports revenue increases by the billions so does the Black athlete’s self-awareness. Writer and host, Jemele Hill joins the discussion on how today’s young
Not My Job: Why I’m Not Interested in Being the Bigger Person Post-Election
J Hall
December 11, 2020
The 2020 Presidential election process was a stressful, never-ending story that included upset white people who feel the country’s been divided since 2016, Black people
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