Erykah Badu lives her life without apologies. In a White supremacist patriarchal society, such an approach to life immediately comes under scrutiny, because it threatens the hierarchical order that...
In the nine-minute video for “Born Free,” a song on M.I.A.’s upcoming album, riot police storm an apartment building and round up all the redheaded males. During the raid, the police burst in...
As a Black gender equality advocate, I had mixed reactions to Erykah Badu’s video “Window Seat." I worried about people cheapening the significance of the song. In the video, the artist removes...