Writing about Black Panther and googling it while trying to avoid spoilers is like boxing yourself. But learning about Wakanda’s king still got me hyped. A lot of themes came …
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Young Ma 
All the black families that lived here, either knew each other or of each other. We played with everybody. 
Baby T Jizzle and Ma Dukes 
My mother’s family eventually settled in Apopka. 
Apopka 
Apopka 
Apopka 
NYC circa. 1996 
Pops cultivating his product. 
Tools of the trade. 
My Uncle painted this, “Starling 80” 
Still from the CBS documentary “Harvest of Shame (1960)” 
Moms and ya boy 
Kantra and Grandma 
The complete triangle.
My mother grew up on Minute Maid’s Florida groves. Her parents were migrant workers. From the Carolinas to South Florida, they picked oranges, tomatoes, and cotton. My mother was born …
Want to say “nigger” without taking the chance of getting beat the fuck up? Are you a white liberal tired of white guilt? Feeling a little transracial? Does everything about …
I met artist Tadashi Moriyama at Art Fair in 2015. I interviewed him through email. This was around the time that Kantra started walking and her life force was beaming. …
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of 2Pac’s debut album 2Pacalypse Now, I wrote something for L.A. Weekly about how that record influenced me as a kid. Pac’s career only lasted for a five-year blink-of-an-eye …
