People & culture
-
Are We FREE? Or Is It FAKE?
By Relentless Aaron We love to shout about freedom.Post about it.March for it.Celebrate it.But if we’re being honest — most of us are still stuck. Not in literal chains.But bound by old mindsets.By outdated systems.By invisible cages we’ve normalized. ✊🏾 Freedom ain’t real if… We’re calling ourselves free while living out scripts someone else wrote…
-
Profiting from destruction and reconstruction
[ad_1] Right now, the dominant narrative of those that occupy political and economic power-centres, and those whose careers and lives are wedded to militaries, is that a new world war is looming, and that we need to get ready. One person with such a narrative is the Swedish commander in chief, Micael Bydén, who stated…
-
Blessed by a Dragonfly
How Stillness, Trust, and a Tiny Visitor Revealed a Universal Truthby Relentless It happened in the most unexpected place. I was in the hot tub—just soaking, breathing, and doing absolutely nothing but being still. No phone in my hand. No music in my ears. Just water, sun, and silence. That’s when I noticed it: a…
-
“Who’s Next?” — When the Music Stops in 3s
Yesterday I literally said to myself, “Who’s next?” Not in a morbid way. But in that way you do when you feel the rhythm of life and death. When you’ve lived long enough to recognize that loss doesn’t show up alone—it moves in threes, like a cruel harmony. And just like that, they came. Wayne…
-
The “What’s Next” and “What’s Now” Culture:
Bridging the Generational Divide in the Black Community Introduction The “What’s Next” and “What’s Now” culture vividly illustrates a significant yet often overlooked dynamic within the Black community—the generational divide. This divide becomes particularly evident through attitudes toward elders across various industries, where older individuals are frequently undervalued or overlooked. While it would be inaccurate…
-
WHEN THE RIOT IS PERSONAL: SLY STONE, RELENTLESS AARON, AND THE COST OF GENIUSby Relentless Aaron Sly Stone is gone.And I’m not just mourning the man.I’m mourning the mirror he held up to me.We both built bangers—him with beats, me with books.We both broke rules—musically, artistically, spiritually.And we both, at one point, had nothing but…
-
The remarkable all-female flying team that helped defeat the…
[ad_1] Andrei Linde (Credit: Andrei Linde) A new episode of the BBC’s History’s Secret Heroes podcast focuses on the Night Witches, a group of Russian female pilots who bombed German forces under the cover of darkness. World War Two is filled with so many extraordinary tales of heroism that not all of them have got…
-
In Netflix’s Black Doves, An Assassin’s Code of Conduct Reve…
[ad_1] Note: This article contains potential spoilers for Black Doves. As anti-hero characters such as Deadpool, John Wick, and Jack Sparrow have become increasingly popular in comic books, films, and TV series in recent decades, they’ve introduced a sort of no-holds-barred protagonist. Beholden to no one or nothing except their own desires, these individuals are…
-
Not Just Bronze:
What Grounded in the Stars Revealed About Us By D. Gilmore I came to write about art.But I stayed to witness a war. Not a war of bullets—but of ideas. Not waged with fists—but with feelings. And the battlefield? A 12-foot statue. A Black woman in bronze. Her hands on her hips. Her back straight.…
-
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘stylish and vibrant political thril…
[ad_1] Set in the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil, this buzzy crime drama, which has premiered in Cannes, “makes up in pulpy excitement what it lacks in subtlety”, and “bursts with sex, shoot-outs and sleazy hitmen”. One of the biggest sensations of this year’s awards season was I’m Still Here, an Oscar-nominated drama about the…