Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy performance of “The Blacker the Berry” and “Alright”, with its #BlackLivesMatter theme and political overtones, struck […]
Compton
“To be educated in my Baltimore mostly meant always packing an extra number 2 pencil and working quietly,” […]
For once, the bluster of a movie tagline is actually on-point. The trailer for Straight Outta Compton pegs […]
[For more on Compton and its complex demographic change see an earlier ToM piece, “Compton as the Bellwether […]