https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA7AIQw-7Ms “Him and I” by G-Eazy and Halsey is a song from 2017 that presents a sort of Bonnie and Clyde love-story the song’s lyrics depict the two lovers/partners in crime living a fast and hard lifestyle. the song lyrics read. Throughout the the song there are various phrases and lines in which the couple of the song…
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The Wonders of Weaving
InSassafras, Cypress & Indigo, Ntozake Shange uses textile weaving as a source of strength and comfort for Sassafras when she is feeling low. After being abused and leaving her boyfriend Mitch, Sassafras leaves LA to be with her sister in San Francisco. “…the cold she felt continually reminded her of being alone – forsaken, she…
“Race Champions”: Taking away the Morning Star
In Zora Neale Hurston’s essay Art and Such (1938), the author is able to use an extended metaphor to reinforce how the “Race Champions “of the time actually create barriers for black Americans to produce their own original and authentic art that comes from their creativity. In particularly on page 5, Hurston introduces the hypothetical thoughts or…
Space Traders: From Pages to Screens
The sci-fi elements that are developed in the short story “Space Traders” by Derrick Bell allows for the existence of a fantastical, yet very relatable, world in which an unlikely event brings forth arguments centered around race. Aliens from another world are shown to make contact with earth and present a trade, giving the United…
Black No More vs Watermelon Man (1970)
Watermelon Man (1970), directed by Melvin Van Peebles, is an American comedy-drama film starring Godfrey Cambridge. The film centers on a bigoted white insurance agent, married with two children, wakes up to find that he is now a black man. His doctor suggests he might be more comfortable with a black doctor; his neighbors want him…
Behind the Veil: Revolution vs Assimilation
In The Soul’s of Black Folk, by W.E.B Du Bois, the concept of a “veil” is prominently depicted throughout the literary piece. Du Bois introduces the image of a “veil” between the black man’s world, where identity is made for him, and the white world, where there are more opportunities and possibilities. In chapter four, he recounts…
Free as a Bird
In Henry’s Freedom Box,By Ellen Levine and illustrated Kadir Nelson, Henry’s desire to be free is compared with the image of a bird in order for a young audience to understand what it means to have freedom. The primary audience for the book would be children who may be learning to read or having the book…
Wearing the Mask
In Beyoncé’s Formation video, Houston Baker’s concepts of “mastery of form” and “deformation of mastery” are greatly depicted. There is a scene from 3:18 to 3:23 in which Black men and women are wearing masquerade masks. The masks made me think of blending or fitting in to the surroundings, which aligns with Baker’s explanation of…
Black Matter 