At night, it is blackness, the sky hosting an array of piercing stars. You can lie on your back and wait and watch for shooting stars if you’re lucky the northern lights may emblazon t… Read More
In the midst of the Coates phenomena I saw a call for people to buy copies of TaNehisi Coates' Between the World and Me at black bookstores. I found the suggestion laughable. The current s… Read More
Business makes money, and there's something about money that destabilizes black knowledge. It could be our original slave position-whack in relationship to money from the beginning. We all… Read More
African American progress is not possible until we make a clear distinction between “black respectability” and the “ignorance about blackness.” Black respectability i… Read More
Photo: Shades of BlacknessI love to find budget-friendly ideas to add to my beauty regimen, it's so much better than buying expensive beauty products that don't always deliver on results. Af… Read More
Images are everything. Images are nothing.Life is just a play on words and symbolsand human beings are the cast. Black people, no matter who or what you call yourself,are the protagonists i… Read More
Sekou Sundiata once said to a class of his that one could look at Malcolm X and Dr. King as they stood behind microphones in the hot seat of history and see the pain and suffering of our peo… Read More
Nightly Show messed up big. It's no big deal though. No liberal likes to fight the right wings treasonous media. I can hardly blame them for choosing the liberal media's cowards way out... m… Read More
My mother used to work at Roper Jr. High in Northeast Washington, D.C. during those days suburbia malls didn't suffice. We would roll back into D.C. for almost everything. We shopped at th… Read More
The depth of strength in the original _Roots_ was that Kunta Kinte and his descendants were ordinary black people—ordinary in the way that Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry taught me to recognize o… Read More
The depth of strength in the original _Roots_ was that Kunta Kinte and his descendants were ordinary black people—ordinary in the way that Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry taught me to recognize o… Read More
Blackness gives rise to skill.This is revelation/consciousness.Blackness is the skill that is a natural byproduct of navigating a racist environment.Racism is fundamentally an illusion. We k… Read More
Work on the redefinition of Black for many may seem to be an outdated task. It is highly unlikely that anyone engaging in such an endeavor is likely to achieve success. The problem of black… Read More
Free Black Space is a place where all definitions of blackness exist.Physically, it is the Hair Dresser, the Barbershop, the Club, the Corner, the Backyard where the cookout is held. The Chu… Read More
I'm not really sure who the Jesse Williams guy is and I really don't watch BET or the awards. But they got me. Social media posts, some tweets and shit. I was like Damm-what is this dude t… Read More
The Invicta 5511 is one of the most popular watches from the sub aqua noma iii range, and it’s not hard to understand why. The watch features a large circular case that is 50mm in diam… Read More
Photo: Shades of BlacknessI have combination skin, so sometimes it can seem like my skin suffers from dissociative identity disorder. I'd have an oily t-zone one day and flaky skin t… Read More
The Free Black space response to TaNehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" published a little over two years ago in The Atlantic discussed African American activist writing as a form of i… Read More
The QuestionsIs a white man the hidden force within blackness? If in fact the Trump election shows a pattern in Black History, what is that pattern? If in fact the Trump election shows a p… Read More
Vegas Movie Studio 14 Released
The big news this week is the release of Vegas Movie Studio 14.
Generally speaking the release of a new version of any software is not really big news as such… Read More
Subscribe to Free black Space. Click the subscribe link to the right. The Market, I am told, just doesn’t demand this kind of book, doesn’t want book covers to look this or that… Read More
African American funkiness is a direct result of their relationship with a dead metaphor. The dead metaphor is race, which insists that African Americans are black. The idea of blackness is… Read More
nejma by Nayyirah Waheed (Bought) - all of the unsleeping. gold sweeping. poems. i have in my hands. From Goodreads.After loving salt., I was eager to read Nayyirah Waheed's second book of p… Read More
The following post was published in April of 2015 on Free Black Space just two months before the publication of Between the World and Me. Part of the Free Black Space approach is to re… Read More
Ten Simple Things About Free Black Space1) Black intellectualism has always existed in America. Black intellectualism existed before America. There were black intelle… Read More
I've been learning about the black imaginary. Special thanks to my friend Ernesto Mercer, long time warrior, poet, and priest for reminding me to root myself in the black joy of the #W… Read More
THE ALCHEMY OF BLACK FUTURES: BLACK COMICS, BLACK BEER CALENDARS & BLACK ICONOGRAPHYAs the information age gives way to the age of reckoning, where the dictates of nature will take prece… Read More
This is the third post which was inspired by young adult podcast YA Oughta's Mental Health episode, which featured Lydia Ruffles and Tom Pollock in conversation with Chloe Seager and Katheri… Read More
Are We All Lemmings & Snowflakes? by Holly Bourne (proof) - Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at "normality" for Olive, a girl on the edge… Read More
Astral Projection Techniques
Astral Estimate is likewise called Astral Traveling. It is a from body experience. Astral Projection Techniques were designed to assist us divide our celestial… Read More
Integrative Ancestors, redux: A Child’s Story from the past to the future
– By Gregory Stephens – October 2, 2018
Fall 2018
When my daughter Sela was three, she invented a… Read More
The Yellow Bird
– Fierce Fiction by Kat McNichol – November 12, 2018
He guides his 1950 Massey-Harris tractor out the battered grey doors of the old barn. The rusted hinges of t… Read More
Finally, the Right Size
– Non-Fiction by Jody Forrester –
Already 5’9” at twelve years old, I never knew where my hands were until I bumped into a doorway or where m… Read More
CGMagazineJeff Schmidt
Jordan Peele has quickly become one of the
hottest names in horror cinema. After winning an Academy Award for Best
Original Screenplay for his debut film Get
Out, he… Read More
I could be a Hotep or a Wakandan depending on the day. My name is Bro. Yao. The bro. stands for brother. Though I can't remember some past declaration to be a "brother" of… Read More
CGMagazineZubi Khan
Blumhouse Productions seems to have an uncanny
ability in producing movies that feature a particular type of horror, one which
tends to subvert expectations while still… Read More
Given the recent success of so many African-American authors is it possible to envision a black press publishing a work that wins a major literary?It might be impossible or more Afro-Futuris… Read More
STAMPEDE
– Fierce Fiction by Lily MacKenzie –
The Calgary Stampede
had roared into town. My friend Sharon and I met at the Fairgrounds’ entrance
at 8:00 PM. We pushe… Read More
The key to a memorable hotel stay is a great welcome and such was my arrival at the excellent Maison Talbooth hotel on the Essex/Suffolk border was that within ten minutes I felt utterly at… Read More
Omnipollo x Evil Twin, The Hardest Thing About Parking My Electric Scooter is Double Blackberry Blueberry Raspberry Pancake Lassi Gose.
Another mouthful of a name from Evil Twin, and a typic… Read More
Causes and treatment of a black neck. The skin on the neck is prone to darkening, whether due to hormones, sun exposure, or other skin-related conditions. A person whoseneck&n… Read More
Black is King premiered on 31 July 2020 on Disney+ Hotstar. The 85-minute long film is based on The Lion King: The Gift, a soundtrack album curated by American singing sensation Beyonce… Read More
Fish are one of the most visible and important members of aquatic ecological systems. Ranging from big carnivorous Sharks to the docile and small goldfish, these animals are amazingly divers… Read More
The Senate, on Tuesday, Voted to Confirm, Kiran Ahuja, to be the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), on a 50-50 Party-Line Vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris providing… Read More
The best-selling author Diana Gabaldon has managed to create a world that has captivated fans and readers for decades. Even though she hadn’t set foot in Scotland when she began writin… Read More
/ef="https://www.electrobuzz.net/2021/11/beatport-best-of-hype-2021-melodic-house-techno-november-2021/434803/">Beatport Best of Hype 2021 Melodic House & Techno November 2021 had bee… Read More
The Kaysoul, Gustavo Martinez, Steve Faets, Kurtx – What Is Blackness / SNF068 had been posted originally on Electrobuzz
RELEASE: What Is BlacknessARTIST(S): Gustavo Martinez, Kurtx… Read More
Discovering the treasures of Egypt can seem impossible, given the abundance of whimsical places it has got. Natural wonders are tantalizing, leaving you quite spell-bound and with dropping j… Read More
In certain of these posts, I’ve put together two stories or quotes that go at one thing from different directions, or whose common ground isn’t obvious on the surface, aiming to… Read More
I ask you to feel when I ask you to open your heart, want you to take a big chance and, open it up and feel because it’s that energy that begins to change matter, and I believe that we… Read More
Geese are the largest member of the duck family in size, and the length of their neck distinguishes a goose. It is also the largest bird that can fly. The goose weighs about 16 kg, and the m… Read More
The National Museum of Scotland will feature an exhibition on the racial identity of "blackness", with Coco Chanel's little black dress as its centrepiece. The exhibition will examine the cu… Read More