1L, 1W: Reflections on Completing My First Year of Law School

Being the pensive, sometimes overly-sensitive, semi-nerd, stereotypical artist-type that I am, at the end of my freshman year in college, Continue reading →

Not All That: In Defense of Anti-Exceptionalism

Someone once told me that I would have a much easier time in life if I simply accepted the fact Continue reading →

Access-A-Ride? More Like Access Denied: Travel and Frustration for the Differently Abled in NYC

3: 36. In days it would be 29 short of a year. 24 degrees short of a circle. But this Continue reading →

Make Way for the Good Girls: A Review of the Mixtape Nehanda: The Best Part

A few months ago, I raved about my love for R&B songstress Elle Varner’s debut album Perfectly Imperfect. Even more Continue reading →

Countdown: My Love/Hate Relationship with New Year’s and Change

The other day a friend of mine asked me if I had a resolution for 2013. “Not really,” I said Continue reading →

Karma Is a Flickkkk…My Thoughts on Django Unchained

Tonight I went to go see Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained. When I first heard that this movie was Continue reading →

I’m Back: Did You Miss Me?

  It’s crazy to think that my last post was sometime in October, but now that I think about it, Continue reading →

Dear Howard: Reflections on My First Real Homecoming

This weekend I returned to my alma mater for my first homecoming as an alum. You may be thinking, “already?” Continue reading →

Hard Time and Hard Times: My Thoughts on Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere

In both society and pop culture, the idea of “standing by your man”  goes back as far as time. A Continue reading →

Sappy Poem Alert: Dear Future Husband

So, I started writing this poem on Valentine’s Day. Surprise, surprise. Since then I have repeatedly picked it up and Continue reading →