mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

For me, the blustery, Chicago-cold new year of 2010 rang in with my head feeling a whole lot colder than I’ve EVER been used to. On December 31, 2009, I stripped my hair of all the weaves and extensions and wigs and relaxers and products that I have used for pretty much my entire life. [...]

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Is something wrong with these photos? I take umbrage with a couple things. 1. They remade the poster for the UK, deliberately EXCLUDING the black couple in the movie. Why? “A Universal spokesman said the revised advert aimed ‘to simplify the poster to actors who are most recognisable in international markets’.” 2. In the initial poster, [...]

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A passion for writing and a rich sense of independence runs in my family, but man…my ma is showing me up! My awesome mother, Zindie, is the published author of a new book which is about to go to the presses called Ta Lakata: The Tears of Africa. This memoir is not only the amazing [...]

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“Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were [...]

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“Psst. Hey. Do you smoke?” A 19-year-old black guy asked me one night on the Green Line from Oak Park to Chicago. It was finals week; I was heading home from a night class. That week I was consumed with hating everyone and everything, not really wanting to talk to anyone, so I sat in [...]

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