This week features recommendations from Chidima Anekwe ’24, our wonderful Co-Editor-in-Chief. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur If you’ve given up on appealing to moral sense…One of the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists,” Assata Shakur writes of her personal history and her rise as a political activist with ties to the Black Panther Party and the…
By Chidima Anekwe ’24 Editor-in-Chief Random Disclaimer (Tyler the Creator style): “Red Vines” was written as a creative exercise in response to “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian, a short story published in the New Yorker that went viral a few years ago. My piece takes the exposition of the story and reorients it in the…
By Chidima Anekwe ’24 Editor-In-Chief Black is the nation which we delivered “Delivered us from evil” and arose From the water, cold water she shivered Her ancestors dance as the hot sun glows Singing and beating a drum, a rhythm My heart knows and pounds along beating red Bleeding red and she kisses the wound…
By Chidima Anekwe ’24 Editor-in-Chief A spectre is haunting Spotify… The woman, the myth, the legend, Mitsuki Miyawaki (more commonly known as Mitski) has recently blessed us all with her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell. The lead single, “Working for the Knife,” marks Mitski’s grand return from her two-year hiatus, a period in which, seemingly,…
Willow is making a name for herself that requires no reference to her famous parents. Transcended from being a Smith, she is now simply, mononymously, WILLOW. Willow has earned the title of our new-age pop punk princess—even the Rolling Stone gave her a nod as a pioneer in a modern pop-punk revival. Besides all of…