“Who All Gon’ Be There?”: In Protection of Gatekeeping “The Cookout”

On my checklist of these invited to “the cookout,” there’s precisely one reply: Black folks. When…

GRAMMYs or Gatekeeping? Analyzing the New “Finest Conventional Nation Album” Class and Its Implications for Black Artists

The GRAMMYs are again at it once more with the remix—and never the great variety. In…