Entries by The Doctor

Blackness, Nudeness, and Thinking Critically

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As you can imagine, I’ve got plenty to say about Timothy Bloom’s new video “‘Til the End of Time,” but rather than offering my own reading of this video and the message its sending through its lyrical content, I’m just going to ask a few questions that came up for me and hope you’ll consider them…

A Brief Movie Review (Spoilers-Kind of): Battle: Los Angeles

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If you need an alien action movie to wet your pallet for the Summer action blockbusters, this will do. It’s no Independence Day, but it’s better than War of the Worlds (that whack Tom Cruise one). The dialogue is no more masculinist and pro-US-military than any other alien movie. Luckily, there is more gun fire and explosions than talking which makes the movie move…

Roasting the Beef: Pink Friday vs. Hardcore

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The real life and Twitter beef that has ensued between Nicki Minaj and Lil’ Kim seemed only to intensify around the release date of Minaj’s first album, Pink Friday back in November; culminating in the release of Black Friday, Lil’ Kim’s “Nicki Minaj diss record” which got a lot of play on the radio and in the bloggispher. Then Lil’ Kim released the Black Friday music video which featured a Nicki Minaj impersonator. Even more recently…

INK: Unrecognized, Unnoticed – Missing from the Oscars

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Were there any people of color at the Oscars?

In this continuation of the In the Name of Kwanza series, I just wanted to answer the question above for individuals, who like myself, noticed that not only the red carpet at the Oscars this year, but also the nomination this year were not only white, but lily white.

Throwback with a Twist – Amber Rose: the Exploitation of Exoticism

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This evening I was looking for videos and pictures concerning Black women’s sexuality, and was initially assaulted by a series of images and commentary where Black women were being discussed, but where we weren’t in the conversation. In fact, our voices were no where to be found except where they were doing the police work of keeping Black women “in line.” Very few voices other than those concerned with propriety seemed to exist, and I have problem with that.