If you mention Jamel Shabazz to New Yorkers who are with it,their tone turns to one of admiration and respect. Shabazz has been one of the best visual curators of a New York City that so many who are Black and Brown recall vividly, a time when the city was pulsating with the sounds of a new music an...

Representation can be a funny - either perplexing or hysterical - thing to contemplate. Especially when you think about doing so as a New Yorker born & raised when subway tokens were still around but nearly on the way out. Being in this city sometimes, the changes have occurred make the bones and th...

For me, traversing the streets of Soho can often be an exercise in refuting what’s safe and expected. Navigating crowds of young socialites who are in transit from one brunch scene to another, tourists with or without rolling suitcases but always with askance glances of “why are YOU here”, or others...

Artwork By ThisRespekArt, Photo Credit: Christopher Smith It’s June, which makes it Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. And judging by what I’ve seen online this first week of June (and truthfully well before that), there’s far too many cats who desperately need to attend to their mental health. In...

It’s not until you quiet yourself down enough to let the trees speak, it’s not until your hands dig deep into the soil and clay, that you come to understand just how futile it is to try to erase history completely. That thought rested at the back of my mind after spending two days outside of Richmon...