James Ijames Ships Black Myths to Hell by Robert M. Gardner & Barry David Horwitz One after the other, we meet four intriguing, intelligent, young black men, ranging from age 15 to 30, each likely killed by police. Ejected out of big pipes or down a towering white slide, they don’t know why they…
Millennial Notes Jason Mendez Exposes America’s Self-Harm by Hamilton Nguyen Jason Mendez’s forward-looking super-hero story “Supremacy” examines America’s dark, open secret—racism. When an incompetent policeman shoots an unarmed Black teenager six times, the high school student suddenly discovers his super-powers. Now, he must wrestle with what it means to hold “Supremacy.” After the Officer…
Millennial Notes Korde Arrington Tuttle Blends News & Poetry by Tyler Jeffreys “Graveyard Shift” shows us just how awkward it is for us “all to just get along.” We see a Black couple from Chicago and a White couple from Texas–both dancing to Bobby Schmurda’s gangsta song “Hot Nigga.” Playwright Korde Arrington Tuttle is…
Dominique Morisseau Aims for Motown Glory by Barry David Horwitz In Detroit in the long hot summer of 1967, the political winds are burning hot—under Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the anti-Vietnam war protests. Police brutality against African Americans in the big cities is boiling up and the lid is…