I wrestle with the heavy trauma of history, memory, and the manufactured shadow of war. Iran has been struck. The headline arrives without nuance. No cushioning. No breath between syllables. Bombed. Across the region, Benjamin Netanyahu remains anchored in Israel’s long-standing doctrine that Iran represents existential threat. In Washington, Donald
Caribbean presence on the Super Bowl halftime stage did not begin in this moment. It has a history. AYEE — Debí tirar más fotos.I wish I took more fotos. That’s the Bad Bunny anthem Super Bowl 2026 has the whole world lit with — decoding, applauding, talking… talking… and talking some more.
I saw an Instagram post interview with Ashley M. Fox. And what struck me was her poignant self-assuredness. Her confidence. Her wealth acumen. Her legitimate history. Nothing pompous. Nothing overkill. It was rich and anchored. Grounded. She exuded the persona of becoming a billionaire — not aspirational performance, but earned positioning.
Editor’s note: This essay was originally written in 2023 and revisited here without revision. Its reflections on Carnival, memory, and cultural context continue to resonate across shifting conversations about history and identity. The Electric Energy of Trini Bacchanal: Carnival, Culture, and the Subjective Nature of Black History Trinidad & Tobago’s Carnival
In sympathy. Venezuela Has Already Been Negotiated A public power snub, staged like a reality series scripted, transactional, and unmistakably final. Dear Madam Machado, This is not a lecture.It’s a sketch because what just unfolded feels less like diplomacy and more like a cartoon, except the ink doesn’t wash off
There was a time when the world looked to America for steadiness not perfection, but proportion. Now the cameras roll, the gestures are unmistakable, and the consequences flow only in one direction. What once would have ended a career is now absorbed, memed, defended, and forgotten. This post is not
Who Is Running the Country? Asking for the USA, for Latin America, and Yes—Trinidad and Tobago A Grace Notes Witness from the Plebian Periphery I write not as a constitutional scholar or a geopolitical tactician,but as an ordinary onlooker—one of the many categorized as less adjudicated,less powerful, less billionaire, less
There is something almost liturgical about the way celebrity is being consecrated in this moment. Figures like Amber Rose and Nicki Minaj are not being engaged as thinkers or strategists, but positioned as symbols anointed voices in a Republican spectacle that repeatedly mistakes attention for authority. Amber Rose, whose public
This essay is not written from expertise or institutional authority. It is written to assert what demands attention and invite reflection. From the position of a layperson who has been, by her own admission, insufficiently engaged in the long arc of Israel–Palestine oversight even as the United States and the
Impeachment is a process. We know this.We have tried this before. Several times. And still — the scions remained. Or perhaps more accurately, the dethroned never truly lost power. Titles shifted. Seats changed. Influence did not. So when we reach reflexively for impeachment as the answer, we must also admit
Written By Grace C. Walker