Shamira Ibrahim's posts

When it was announced that rising actor Jason Mitchell—known for his performances in Straight Outta Compton,…

I often jokingly tell people that I grew up in a household made up of three (occasionally four, depending on what…

The music video for 34-year-old French rapper Nick Conrad’s “Pendez les Blancs” (“Hang the Whites”) opens with a…

For Matthew Morgan and Jocelyn Cooper, it has been a long, 15-year journey to get the Afropunk Festival from the…

It has been an oft-repeated refrain that the Afropunk Festival has changed from the punk-centered origins of its…

When I was a child, my mom would tell me stories about Ramadan in our homeland of Comoros. Some parts weren’t the…

Sometime Thursday, Donald J. Trump waddled into the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., and…

This weekend, a sea of unapologetic blackness will descend upon Fort Greene’s Commodore Barry Park for Brooklyn,…

A few months ago, I reconnected with a dear friend whom I hadn’t seen in quite some time. We met up for brunch,…

I want to say that the first time that I heard Serena Williams called a man was middle school. I can’t say that with…

In just a few months, Bresha Meadows will finally be out of prison. However, it won’t be due to her case being…

Today, millions of American women will exercise their right to protest by participating in “A Day Without A Woman” —…

When I heard direct shots cast at Remy Ma on Gucci Mane & Nicki’s reconciliatory collab “Make Love”, three words…

As I’ve written about before, the life of a Knicks fan is one of pure masochism. It’s season after season of…

I’ve spent the better part of the last week wondering why in the hell Chrisette Michele was singing at Donald…

Despite the pending apocalypse’s greatest efforts to wipe out the human population in one fell swoop, the bulk of us…

There will be plenty of time in the coming days, weeks and months to do a full post-mortem on what just happened…

I wish I could say I was surprised that Derrick Rose and his cohorts were found not liable on all counts in the…

I’m currently on a kick of acquiring basic life skills that escaped me because of either growing up in poverty, city…

I’ve experienced the sweet torture of being a New York Knickerbockers fan for almost my entire life.