Empire State of Mind: Mutha is Only Half a Word!
Let me read this post to you on Apple Podcasts and Spotify too! ✨✌🏾💛 Gospel for the Culture returns as a Public Library on Apple & Spotify! Nigga is only half the story. What becomes...
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See Daddy Even the Bando Got Soul
I’ve said before that I treat Black culture as a sacred text wherein I draw both my spirit and intellectual inquiry to form knowledge! I’ve put it in my books now lemme explain it to...
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Trappin Out da Pedagogical Bando: My Life as a Public Intellectual
Trappin Out da Pedagogical Bando: My Life as a Public Intellectual The potency of your crack depends on the ratio specs of your cocaine to sodium bicarbonate. And your profit margin depends on that same...
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Repatriation 2: A Decade of Public Intellectual Practice,2016-2025
Part 2: 2021-2025 2021 Artifact I: Who Gets to Define the Sacred? Religious Classification, Power & Black Religious Thought Permalink Cluster: Lil Nas X, “Not God” exposition — April 13–20: Part 1, Part 2, Part...
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Repatriation 1: A Decade of Public Intellectual Practice,2016-2025
Part 1: 2016-2020 The earlier archive: public theology, structural analysis, digital ethics, political economy, gender/sexuality, the movement between Facebook and Unfit Christian, and the emergence of recurring questions.I would not make every claim herein exactly...
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Kendrick Lamar’s Coded Hymns
The Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t just performance. It was a setlist sermon about Black survival, coded language, and the politics of being “Not Like Us.” It’s Tight, But It’s Right “I’m not here to...
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