Frederick McKindra is an emerging writer fellow for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
The choreography of these college dance troupes makes me feel proud knowing that this artistry is so deeply embedded in black American life, there is little danger of it ever being appropriated.
The Atlanta actor’s brand of weird is quietly revolutionizing black masculinity.
For years, I'd managed to convince myself that fetishizing whiteness was my form of protest. Now I'm not so sure.
Of any show on television, the OWN series lands nearest to an honest representation of my experience as a gay black man still struggling with what the church asked of me.
I know how complicated the legacy of historically black universities in America is, because my own life has been a reckoning with it.
Get Out and the Purge franchise finally make black men the protagonists of horror films and center their real-life terror of living in suburban America.
Smutty videos helped me name and claim my desires as a black gay man, in a world where only straight people’s sexuality comes with an owner’s manual.
Football was presented to me, and the other black boys I grew up with, as our sole chance at achieving greatness. But I don't believe that anymore.
The choreography of these college dance troupes makes me feel proud knowing that this artistry is so deeply embedded in black American life, there is little danger of it ever being appropriated.
Of any show on television, the OWN series lands nearest to an honest representation of my experience as a gay black man still struggling with what the church asked of me.
Get Out and the Purge franchise finally make black men the protagonists of horror films and center their real-life terror of living in suburban America.
Smutty videos helped me name and claim my desires as a black gay man, in a world where only straight people’s sexuality comes with an owner’s manual.
For years, I'd managed to convince myself that fetishizing whiteness was my form of protest. Now I'm not so sure.
The Atlanta actor’s brand of weird is quietly revolutionizing black masculinity.
I know how complicated the legacy of historically black universities in America is, because my own life has been a reckoning with it.
Football was presented to me, and the other black boys I grew up with, as our sole chance at achieving greatness. But I don't believe that anymore.