by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Interviews, Journalism, Writing
Article originally published on Oakland Local Virtually all artists flirt with the divine when they work, delving deep into themselves and their beliefs in the name of creation. But for artist and curator Cicely Sweed art is a chance to dialog with ancestors, a...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Media, social justice, Writing
(Props to The Hood Nerd for his original post.) CNN, we have a problem. By now most people have heard of Derrion Albert, the 16 year old Chicago honor student killed in the middle of a gang brawl last week. The incident was caught on video and has sparked all the...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Media
While a lot of the future soul crowd has been (rightfully) mourning the death of Slum Village MC Baatin, another afrofuturistic luminary passed over the weekend. Charles Huntley Nelson was a visual artist, experimental film director and proffessor at Morehouse in...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Writing
Alright, I’ve been thinking about this for the last few weeks as I’ve been rewinding the hell out of Jay Z’s latest and I want to get a couple things out of the way from the jump. 1) Autotune is hella overused and kind of annoying after the 50th...
