About the Black Skin We Live In

As Juneteenth approaches, I’ve been given reason to consider a confluence of events and ideas: my family’s life-long process of becoming Black and having to police my sons’ consumption of a certain kind of blackface.
Screenshot of Travis Scott Concert broadcast on Fortnite.

Screenshot of Travis Scott Concert broadcast on Fortnite.

Cherise Smith’s editorial on the consumption of Blackness for Hyperallergic (2020).

Cherise Smith