Here’s my first article for Queen City Nerve about the housing crisis. Researching this story about Charlotte evictions was dispiriting and that’s just for starters. Reading Mathew Desmond’s Eviction, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law, the incredible work of UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, the devastating wealth gap among Black versus white households, the various other “indicators,” the emotional trauma and psychological terrorism that sustains our stagnation, it’s quite sobering and enraging. It answers the question as to why Charlotte’s Black …
Category: Writing
For the past nine years I had been living in Tokyo, Japan. With my wife Haruki and our seven-year-old daughter, Kantra we were on a 13-hour flight from Tokyo to JFK airport in New York City. It was the day before 9/11 and it was our first touchdown in the States. NYC was one of the global epicenters of COVID. At JFK we had to go through immigration and transfer to a connecting flight to Charlotte. Throughout the weeks leading …
My latest article for CharlotteFive just got published. Read it here. Below is how the piece has been received thus far. …
Three weeks after landing in Charlotte, NC, here’s my first story featured on the front page of Charlotte Five for The Charlotte Observer. Read it here. …
Recently I interviewed with Mega of Mega Late Show podcast. It was for their “Temperature Check” series. We talked about my former music crew Stolen Music Imprint, writing, and “The Fire This Time.” Dr. Malachi Z. York sucked me into a wormhole and spit me into the real possibility of malware microchips floating in my high school cereal. Armand Hammer, Run The Jewels 4, and Jay Electronica get some looks. Listen to the chat below. Also I informally announced Humancloud …
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