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The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday is the author of the bestselling Ego Is the Enemy, and Conspiracy and roots the majority of his self-help books in stoicism a school of Hellenistic philosophy heavily influenced by Socrates; however, much of what he writes is influenced by Marcus Aurelius (Meditations), a Roman emperor who reigned from 161 to 180 AD. Aside from compiling his […]
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America – Eugene Robinson
“‘Black America’ doesn’t live here anymore” – Eugene Robinson As the front cover of the book suggests, most African Americans feel like there was a time when there were agreed-upon “black leaders,” when there was a clear “black agenda,” when we could talk confidently about the “state of black America” – but not anymore. Disintegration: […]
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Review (No Spoilers)
The memory is a living thing – it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives – the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead. ~ Eudora Welty In this epigraph from Eudora Welty, Jesmyn Ward attempts to encapsulate the omnipresent […]
SAUL WILLIAMS – ARTISTS SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT REAL ISSUES
All day all I’ve been thinking about is getting home and listening to some Saul Williams interviews and poems. Aside from Coded Language and Amethyst Rock I stumbled across this interview with 247HH and I really enjoyed his perspective on where music is, and where artists should be trying to take it to. I agree wholeheartedly with his assertion that in America […]
NETFLIX ORGINALS: Explained – The Racial Wealth Gap
What is wealth? This documentary is apart of a Netflix original titled: Explained. It seeks to explain what the racial wealth gap is… what it consists of… and what it means to African Americans. As I watched some of the usual glaring threats to the creation of black wealth: generational wealth inequality, misunderstanding of housing […]
Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
The book for the month of July!
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. […]
