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Issue #14: Hip Hop’s Financial Future
"Hip-hop was supposed to be a gift for us"
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Shamira Ibrahim

August 2023

Issue #13: Pulled from the Archives: The Documentary Content Mill
"The streamers and networks are just churning out stuff — they have to fill airtime, and documentaries in that world."
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Shamira Ibrahim

February 2023

Issue #12: Pulled from the Archives: Missy Elliott and the Sonic Revolution
"My style can't be duplicated or recycled...this chick is a sick individual."
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Shamira Ibrahim

January 2023

Issue #11: Pulled from the Archives: Brunch with New York
"I owe it to myself to always be true to myself and be authentic."
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Shamira Ibrahim

December 2022

October 2022

Issue # 9: The Boom & Bust Cycles of House and Club Music
“The underground and mainstream, they need each other. They feed off each other, and it's a constant cycle.”
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Shamira Ibrahim
Issue #8: Michael K. Williams’s Memoir is a Somber Rendering of the Personal Tax of Principled Success
A retrospective on Hollywood's ebony archangel and martyr
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Shamira Ibrahim

September 2022

Issue #7: The Woman King Review
The Woman King is a stunning Hollywood epic that is burdened by the competing masters of entertainment and history
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Shamira Ibrahim

July 2022

Issue #6: Pulled From the Archives - An Interview with Jenifer Lewis
"I walk in my joy." - Jenifer Lewis
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Shamira Ibrahim

June 2022

Issue #5: Mid-Year Check-in
“Pain was greedy; it demanded all of her attention.” - Toni Morrison, Sula
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Shamira Ibrahim

December 2021

Issue #4: Reflections for a New Year
“We have to be as radical as reality itself.”
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Shamira Ibrahim

December 2020

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