Millennial Notes Leguizamo & Taccone Transform Latin Colonial History by Tyler Jeffreys Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. —George Orwell (1984) “Kiss my Aztec!” conjures up an ancient indigenous identity that lurks in all our DNA. As the cast sings at the end: “The World…
Millennial Notes Geetha Reddy Forges Revolutionary Alliances by Tyler Jeffreys A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities In “Far, Far Better Things,” although two women share bonds of color, single motherhood, and…
A. Zell Williams Reclaims the Black Man’s Humanity by Tyler Jeffreys & Robert M. Gardner “The Urban Retreat” shows us that Hip Hop is the new slavery. We follow MC Trench Deep, as he goes from a fabricated performer to a vulnerable artist. Thugalicious Hip Hop star Trench Deep thinks he’s finally made it,…
Millennial Notes Cleavon Smith’s Women: from Hip Hop to Ballot Box by Tyler Jeffreys TheatreFirst’s “The Last Sermon of Sister Imani” introduces a new topic: artivism (art+activism). What is Black America discussing during Happy Hour? We debate whether to spend extra energy fighting the system, or to focus that energy on self-care and ignore…