It was announced on April 16, 2018 that rapper Kendrick Lamar was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In a society where awards seemingly get distributed like water bottles after a natural disaster, sometimes the gravity of these awarding bodies gets lost in the shuffle. This was not a Grammy nor a BET or MTV […]
Read more "When Black Culture Goes Mainstream"Ever since Destiny’s Child disbanded and Beyoncé Knowles, the lead singer for the group made a go for it as a solo artist, she’s had hit after hit after hit. We all looked up one day, and she had somehow become this artistic juggernaut who couldn’t seem to fail. She was the epitome of what […]
Read more "Made in Our Own Image: The Gospel According to Beyoncé"“My concern is the arrival of new ground that replaces…specific places as primary signifiers of identity.” –Willie Jennings from The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race I’m not even sure if the phrase “the black blogosphere” is appropriate anymore to denote that which is the conglomerate of black social media commentary, Black Twitter, news […]
Read more "Beyonce, Kendrick and Me"Beyonce’s rendition of “Precious Lord” fell rather flat at the 2015 Grammys. That’s a commentary that didn’t make it into many news stories the day after. Most stories used descriptors as “resplendent” and “emotional” to detail what the artist did in her rendering of the classic gospel piece. Social media, particularly the eponymous Black Twitter, […]
Read more "When “Precious Lord” Doesn’t Lead Home"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 