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My Top 25 Rap Songs of 2025
2025 was a year blessed by the Hip-hop Gods. 2025 was truly a renaissance year for Hip-hop. It was the best year for Hip-hop since 2014, probably. Saba kicked the year off for me with his album From The Private Collection produced by No ID. Saba showed off top-tier lyricism and demonstrated why he is…
Black Boy:The Formulation of Richard Wright’s idea of “Black Power”
*I presented this essay at the American Literature Association Conference in May of 2025 Before college, I hated reading. In high school, I was only exposed to specific literature written by a specific type of author. In English classes, we read the works of Hemingway, Hawthorne, and Faulkner. All these authors have two things in…
Bucked:Black Suffering in Graduate School
All Praise to Allah in Every Situation Buck breaking was a public punishment of an enslaved Black man. Often sexual assault accompanied this display of antiBlack violence enacted by white slave masters. Buck breaking was meant to emasculate the enslaved man. It brought the enslaved man shame, embarrassment, and a blow to their manhood. Buck…
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