We were friends. We were lovers. We were everything to each other….we weren’t falling in love. We just were. -Robyn Crawford (2019)

In the DC LGBTQ community, it’s hard to miss Rayceen Pendarvis. Born and raised in the District, Rayceen is a product both of an accepting family and a city that nurtured this enormously charming persona.

The complete article appears in the book anthology, "Outside In: Voices from the Margins," which was published in October 2018.

Stacey Abrams is the Choice for Georgia I’ve never wanted to vote for a person more than I want to cast one for Stacey Abrams to be the next governor of Georgia.

From May 8-19, the Cannes Film Festival will preview films from talented creators across the globe. Authors Jill Forbes and Sara Street argue in their book, European Cinema: An Introduction, that Cannes has served as a platform to showcase European films, and to highlight European contributions to film as an artform. Today, Cannes is hardly limited to highlighting “European art cinema.” It now serves as a meeting place for filmmakers from all over the planet to present their stories to the worl

It’s been five days since I attended the 3rd annual National Cannabis Festival (NCF) held in Washington, D.C., and I’m still on a high. The festival was a stoner’s paradise. People played rounds of chess on a giant board as their audience watched, and rolled, and puffed, and passed. The concert featured performances from D.C. go-go legends, Backyard Band, and West Coast rap royalty, Cypress Hill. There was a Munchies Zone, where you could find all of the sweet and salty foods your high ass des

Billie Holiday is known today as a jazz legend, and cultural icon. In the 1930’s and 1940’s, she had a string of successful singles on the Billboard music charts, including “God Bless The Child” and “Strange Fruit.” She was booking solos and leading jazz ensembles, and worked with greats – the likes of Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Frank Sinatra. What set Holiday apart from other jazz singers was her unique vocal style. Her delivery of song standards was slow