The 2022 Calgary Black Film Festival is set to hit screens, both in person and at home starting Thursday the 26th of May, and concluding Sunday the 29th. Viewers will experience stories that bring truth to power, rooted in both joy and resilience. This year’s festival is right on time…

Whether we choose to interact with it or not, art often shows up throughout various moments in our lives, speaking truths and inviting engagement. For some, this invitation to engage with creativity turns into a call; a call to become an artist. Wakefield Brewster is a first generation Bajan-Canadian. You…

It’s been nearly two years since the “great awakening” seen in North America, the UK, and Europe during the summer of 2020. I spoke to people back home in the States and here in Calgary about the changes they wanted to make within themselves, but also the changes they wanted…

The first time I heard of Brittney Griner, we were both sophomores at our respective religious universities. I was living in Cincinnati at the time, studying sport management with big hopes of working in sports and entertainment. Griner was in Waco, Texas, a place much smaller and much more conservative-with…

For Black History Month this year, I had planned to write a poem or lyric essay. I juggled around the common themes of survival, achievement, oppression, and creativity. …

Current Events From February That Blew My Mind — Welcome to February 2022. A month filled with geopolitical tension, NFT conferences, classified documents being found at Mar-A-Lago, anti-Blackness, Queen Elizabeth II testing positive for COVID-19, Canadian caravans, and even Rihanna’s pregnancy. I hope you brought popcorn. This month has been a strange one, filled with problems mostly rooting in…

Cash Rules Everything Around His Choices — I have off and on followed the narrative surrounding Dr. Jordan Peterson since he emerged into the mainstream discourse. Not because I agree with him, but because I want to debate him someday. Given my status as a rising academic, and an Afro-Dutch immigrant from the U.S. …

I’ve enjoyed the industrial sounds of a screeching train running across the tracks. The music that that makes. I’ve always had a love for mass transit, especially on rails. Whether light rail, subway, elevated line, trolly, or cross country I appreciated it. …

At least Irving is honest — The last two years have been maddening. Science is secondary to YouTube conspiracy theories. The two wings of American government are either docile or blatantly flagrant. Over 5 million people world wide have died from COVID-19. Somehow the amount of death isn’t enough to dissuade people to believe in common…