“The question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life,” writes Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son. In Between the WorldContinue reading
Category: Archive
Eisa’s Blog Entries from 2006-2018
Music’s Role in the Movement for Black Lives: An Interview With Robert Glasper
This interview originally appeared on Truthout.org. Music’s Role in the Movement for Black Lives: An Interview With Robert Glasper Tuesday, 04 August 2015 00:00 By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Truthout | Interview If you say toContinue reading
My Intersectional Life
Originally appeared on Truthout.org – My Intersectional Life By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Truthout | Op-Ed | Saturday, March 21, 2015 I am a New Yorker. Ever since 9-11, I have felt like I have anContinue reading
So, So Fresh: US TV Is Starting to Reflect the US
Who remembers “The Humpty Dance“? The 1989 hit stands with the best hip-hop singles of the genre’s golden age. One of the Digital Underground song’s most quotable lines (and there are so many) is: “Samoans,Continue reading
Booty Shot
This week the queen bee of all the famous people who are famous for being famous people posed big booty-luscious for the cover of Paper Magazine. Kim Kardashian also gave full frontal, albeit with aContinue reading
Dear White People (and Black and Brown People, Too), Please Go See This Film
At the climax of Dear White People, a minstrel-style house party, complete with white students wearing blackface, causes what the media call a “race war” at elite Winchester University. At the film’s heart, however, allContinue reading
Talking Black Writers, “Bring Back Our Girls” and All the Buzz About Bridgett M. Davis’ New Book
This interview originally ran on Truthout.org. Talking Black Writers, “Bring Back Our Girls” and All the Buzz About Bridgett M. Davis’ New Book Thursday, 02 October 2014 10:28 By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Truthout | InterviewContinue reading
Film Celebrates Blackness, Authenticity and the Glory of Photography
Last fall, I was thankful for Facebook. And I posted those feelings, without irony or jest, for all my friends to see. I was thankful for the images, every year, of black folk in aContinue reading
Knocking the Sense Out of Our Children
An edited version of this article ran in the July 2013 issue of Ebony magazine. Knocking the Sense Out of Us? She would send us out to get the switch. And you couldn’t come backContinue reading
My Writing Process – Blog Tour
My wonderful writer sister Bridgett Davis invited me to join this blog tour. I think it’s a terrific idea! I love that different writers, all women so far, I think, are sharing their experiences withContinue reading
Dr. Anthony Monteiro and the Struggle for the Soul of African-American Studies at Temple
This interview originally appeared on Truthout.org. Dr. Anthony Monteiro and the Struggle for the Soul of African-American Studies at Temple Tuesday, 15 April 2014 12:59 By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Truthout | Interview Few Americans outsideContinue reading
Mad DNA
This article appeared on Truthout.org. Mad DNA Sunday, 23 February 2014 00:00 By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Truthout | Op-Ed I once was a black girl. Culturally, spiritually, politically, most definitely economically, I was African inContinue reading
Part Two of a Wash Post Series – The Smartest Summer Ever: Hazy, but not Lazy
This first appeared in The Washington Post: The smartest summer ever: Hazy, but not lazy By Eisa Nefretari Ulen, Published: August 7, 2013 Summer time is fun time, when kids can make and sell lemonade,Continue reading
Part One of a Wash Post Series – The Smartest Summer Ever: Avoiding the Summer Slide
This first ran in The Washington Post: Helping your child overcome ?the summer slide? in learning By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Published: July 11, 2013 The final bell rings, the school doors open, and a cheeringContinue reading
Movie Review of Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary
This review first ran on The Washington Post: ?Long Distance Revolutionary?: New film examines the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal By Eisa Nefertari UlenFew inmates have garnered more international attention than Mumia Abu-Jamal. Martin Luther King,Continue reading
Movie Review of The Central Park Five
This story originally ran on The Washington Post: The Central Park Five: Exploring race, rape and redemptionBy Eisa Nefertari Ulen I remember the Central Park Five. I remember them well. In the spring of 1989,Continue reading
American Promise and the Black Student Struggle in the Nation’s Private Schools
The Story Originally Ran on The Washington Post: ?American Promise? and the black student struggle in the nation?s private schoolsBy Eisa Nefertari Ulen WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 05: Last week, PBS aired ?180 Days,? aContinue reading
The Double Divide: Deaf and Native
This article first ran on Indian Country Today: The Double Divide: Deaf and Native Eisa Ulen11/25/13Deaf Natives who live on isolated reservations, said Judy Cummings Stout (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina), can often ?live betweenContinue reading