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. …
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Pharrell’s single “Entrepreneur (ft. Jay Z)” is an ode to black businesses. Storied snapshots of black entrepreneurs get elevated out of obscurity and placed center stage before the world. When TMG favorite, filmmaker Darryl Wharton-Rigby saw the video, which included a few notable figures from Japan’s Black community, he knew that he needed to broaden the scope of local individuals profiled in “Entrepreneur.” Enter Darryl’s “Japan Edition.” The music video is a montage of various successful Black businesses and I’m …
My latest Tokyo Weekender article “Why I’m Glad I Got Stuck in Japan During Covid-19” is several hours old and since it got published the response has been a ringing fire house. It’s on fire. I’m mad humbled. Thank you. At the moment my daughter is adjusting to elementary school, which is an incredible challenge. Every morning it’s like she’s getting ready to run through a gladiator course. “Dad, I’m going in. I’m going in,” she says in so many …
This Friday at 10pm, rapper and producer Rhyming Gaijin will livestream on the Tokyo Weekender’s Instagram page. Feigning to watch again? I got you. Rhyming’s set will rebroadcast again on Saturday at 10pm on TW Facebook page. TMG wrote about Rhyming’s 365-Day rap challenge and here’s an Q&A. This brother has been at it for over a decade. He’s nice af. …
The untimely death of George Floyd inspired global anti-racist protests that continue to this day. Here’s his story. This is about a young lady’s experience of growing up half-black half Japanese in Japan. (with Japanese subtitles) Cocoalizzy, born and raised and in Japan, talks about what it was like for her to grow up here. A great and at times hard to watch film about people who grew up in Japan, half-Japanese half-other. (with Japanese subtitles) I’ve been compiling this …
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