From xoNecole: *Warning: spoilers for the plot of Nope below!* Not even my momma could make me go back to Bible study, but if there’s one thing Jordan Peele can do, it’s the seemingly impossible. So here I am reading the book of Nahum again because Peele has started his latest horror-comedy Nope with
From xoNecole: In 2018, Miami-bred rap duo City Girls (JT and Yung Miami) dropped the mixtape Period, featuring a song detailing their rise to success: “Rap Shit.” My own daddy said I wouldn’t be shit / I looked at him, like we gon’ see bitch / I’m up now, I don’t
From xoNecole: *Spoilers for the plot of the movie Thor: Love & Thunder* It took me three tries to watch Thor: Love and Thunder in the waking nightmare that is the Covid/Monkeypox pandemic era. The two screenings I attempted to attend, full of people wearing Thor’s viking helmet but no masks over
On Aug 11, 2020, Brooke’s piece Beyonce’s Black Is King Offers a Blueprint for Decolonizing Black Masculinity was published on Esquire Magazine: In April 2016, Beyoncé stopped the world with the drop of her visual album Lemonade. Though the film chronicled Beyoncé’s cycle of grief and healing after her husband Jay-Z’s infidelity, Lemonade is
Every Man Should Be Watching I May Destroy You The groundbreaking HBO series is an excellent tool to help men understand what constitutes rape and the culture that perpetuates it. BY BROOKE OBIE JUL 28, 2020 Content warning: discussion of rape and sexual assault. In the new HBO series, I May Destroy You,
“Who is #BlackAF for? To whom is Barris trying to prove Blackness? And when half the writers’ room is made up of white people, what does “Black AF” even mean? The series provides conflicting answers to the first two questions, and despite several scenes showing white writers in a writers’ room of