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3 years

the FIRST published oral history of black twitter is finally in the world — written and reported by yours truly it's the cover story for the september issue of @WIRED

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2 years

we are reaching a real breaking point: pandemic fatigue, inflation, a housing crisis, the narrowing of women’s rights, mass shootings. all this (and much more) as a conservative SCOTUS remaps every progressive law. and with no time to properly process because we are busy working

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jason

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AMERICAN BOYS

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toni morrison in her eulogy of james baldwin from 1987: "because our joy and our laughter were not only all right, they were necessary" THEY WERE NECESSARY

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4 years

2020: the year white people discovered voter suppression

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i wrote the cover story for @wired 's september issue it's about tiktok, blackface, and the consequences of cultural theft

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3 years

hilton als is fed up 😂😂

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jason

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3 years

our genius is constantly erased or stolen i wanted an official record of it. something that couldn't be taken away this one was for us A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF BLACK TWITTER

A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I

From #UKnowUrBlackWhen to #BlackLivesMatter, how a loose online network became a pop culture juggernaut, an engine of social justice, and a lens into the future.

www.wired.com

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jason

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3 years

my bank account is ready for another lockdown

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jason

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8 years

PASS THE AUX CORD TO FRANK OCEAN !!!!

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jason

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5 years

when we talk about Nipsey let’s make sure we talk about black wealth, black sustainability, and what it takes to fortify a people under constant terror. he was doing the work

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jason

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4 years

just now from my fire escape in bed-stuy: at least 5,000 demonstrators marching down fulton ave chanting “i can’t breathe.” so incredible

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jason

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5 years

writing is torture. having written is bliss

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8 years

this is the best

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jason

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7 years

my exact sentiment when i heard what happened to alex ball's work. "Make this place untenable to those who don't want to live amongst us"

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3 years

🎯🎯🎯

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8 years

sinking the police car is maybe the video's most important moment: both a damnation of police injustice and sort of baptism for black life

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5 years

vince staples is our generation's finest film critic

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4 years

white-owned companies who profit off black cool without compensation or proper attribution of the people actually doing the work are so lame

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🎵 IT'S THAT TIME 🎵

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7 years

obama got all the sauce

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7 years

** READS JAMES BALDWIN ONCE **

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4 years

having your work published on the internet is really strange. you write a thing and it's just online forever like LOL i am not THAT person anymore who wrote that nonsense

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3 years

what a joy it was to work on this and speak with him back in 2016 x forever

The True Story Behind DMX’s Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood

The remarkable true story of how Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood was made.

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jason

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6 years

A queer woman TV writer. A Pulitzer winner from Compton. A princess. A movie star turned mogul. Long may Radhika Jones reign

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jason

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7 years

wrote about jordan edwards, tamir rice, and time as inheritance

For Black Kids Like Jordan Edwards, Time Is A Fragile Illusion

The killings of Jordan Edwards, Tamir Rice, and others reveal a gruesome paradox for black Americans.

www.thefader.com

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jason

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5 years

a black gay cowboy has the longest reigning number one hit on the billboard charts. you love to see it

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jason

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3 years

the culture doesn't move without black twitter. its influence is unmatched the final installment of A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF BLACK TWITTER

A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III

Joy and pain, harmony and discord, organization and chaos—there’s no single way to define Black Twitter’s complex, ongoing legacy.

www.wired.com

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4 years

gonna need @MuseumModernArt to add this to their permanent collection asap

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jason

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7 years

i tracked down earl simmons

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jason

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4 years

today, along with my colleagues at @wired , we've decided to form a union. the future is more unstable than it's ever been. all we are asking is to secure our own place in that future. for more, check out @wiredunion

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jason

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3 years

PAUL MOONEY FOREVER

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7 years

claudia rankine—always, always, always

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2 years

THE FIRST FAMILY OF CHRISTMAS

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jason

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8 years

it took me 4 months but i finally turned FADER into a black hair magazine

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jason

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4 years

say black when you mean black say indigenous when you mean indigenous say latinx when you mean latinx

What We Get Wrong About ‘People of Color’

The phrase turns a plural into a singular, an action that betrays all the ways we have come to understand contemporary identity.

www.wired.com

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jason

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5 years

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL. NEW CLAUDIA RANKINE 🚨

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5 years

the strange, sad science of the media industry: more often than not it's the writers, editors, assistants, etc who get laid off when, in fact, it was the idiot executives who fucked up. THAT'S NOT OK !!

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4 years

🙋🏾‍♂️

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jason

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6 years

in february 2014 my cousin and i created a tumblr dedicated to the rich history of choppa suits may we all continue to shine this bright HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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jason

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6 years

cardi b: "i’m a boss in a skirt/ i’m a dog, i’m a flirt/ write a verse while i twerk/ i wear off-white at church" also cardi b: "vote for cynthia nixon" legend

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jason

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7 years

perfect. just perfect

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4 years

wartime twitter officially the worst twitter

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jason

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6 years

easily my favorite part about the @lpeopleswagner news

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jason

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5 years

a friend sent me this and honestly ARE WE???

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jason

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8 months

thankful to the atlantic profile of dream hampton for reminding me that her 1998 vibe cover story of jay z is cannon. a one of one. in my opinion, few profilers have reached this level of storytelling

Jay-Z: The Life

originally published December 1998 / VIIBE magazineLet me tell you something about money. And drugs. Myth and lore. Mandatory sentencing. Open caskets with bloated, bejeweled bodies.About kamikaze...

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jason

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8 years

the bey video is very very very very very very very very very black

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jason

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5 years

one of the nice things about being black, particularly a black male, is that no one really wants to sit next to you on megabus which is sad because racism but great because now i have this aisle to myself so maybe it all evens out

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jason

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6 years

atlanta is back march 1st which means black history month is two months now

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jason

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3 years

almost every major social media platform—which began with a fairly radical idea—now offers the same suite of features as its competitors. that’s not innovation

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7 years

i wrote about frank ocean, never being in love, and cowardice for @NYTmag 's music issue

25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going (Published 2017)

A curated playlist featuring Future, Kelela, Adele and more, with essays by Margo Jefferson, Wesley Morris, Angela Flournoy and others.

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jason

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1 year

i’m only four episodes into station eleven and i dunno y’all as far as apocalypse prestige goes it’s kinda better than the last of us

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jason

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3 years

black twitter gave birth to a modern civil rights movement—and demanded to be heard part 2 of A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF BLACK TWITTER with @WesleyLowery @ReignOfApril @sjjphd @meredithdclark @thisiskashmir @stillnaima @Nettaaaaaaaa @brokeymcpoverty + more

A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part II

No longer just an online movement, Black Twitter takes to the streets—and finds its voice.

www.wired.com

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jason

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8 years

baldwin, forever and ever

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"Lest we forget, I think I’ll say it again: Prince was black as fuck."

The Very Black Politics of Prince

Prince was more than his music, he was a sound, a feeling, and a politics rooted in blackness.

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jason

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6 years

in which two white people tell you which black films to watch for black history month nah

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11 months

“culture is what we do to make our survival normal” i spent an afternoon in oakland with @BootsRiley . we talked about life and revolution

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5 years

Interviewer: "I know you're sickened to death of being labeled a black writer" Toni Morrison: "I prefer it" Interviewer: "I thought you were probably tired of it" TM: "Well, I'm tired of people asking the question"

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

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An intimate, comprehensive portrait of the life and works of legendary storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. In select theaters June 21st.

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4 years

me to my editors when they suggest edits: "i don't remix"

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jason

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4 years

is it just me or is everyone like 20% sexier with masks on

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jason

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8 years

there is only one vine

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5 years

influencers at the height of internet fame want more. some turn to porn. i followed them there, seduced. my latest feature for the september issue of @WIRED

When Influencers Switch Platforms—and Bare It All

You follow them on Instagram, admiring their bodies, envying their lifestyles. And then they get intimate on OnlyFans. The influencers are now obtainable.

www.wired.com

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jason

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3 years

a black woman on the c train just asked a young white couple, sans masks, if they were “heading up to harlem to have fun” for juneteenth

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jason

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5 years

these mickalene thomas photographs of venus williams are very good internet

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for the new @latimes style magazine, Image, i was asked to write about john singleton but ended up writing about black men and vulnerability

John Singleton saw a tenderness in Black L.A. that the world refused to look at

The filmmaker's movies were hard and unflinching in their portrayal of Black Los Angeles but really what they are about is our fundamental human enterprise: the grace of feeling.

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jason

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5 years

wash your hands. wash your face. wash your ass. wash your legs. wash your neck (and behind your ears). wash under your arms. wash the negative energy in your life. wash the haters. wash your timeline. wash the people from your life who tell you not to wash

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jason

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4 years

run to the noah davis show at david zwirner. it’s incredible and full of emotional volume. it’s very black everyday, black goth and black future rolled into one

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jason

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4 years

new yorkers love a random sidewalk eye fuck

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7 years

"Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you."

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7 years

GREG TATE ON KENDRICK GREG TATE ON KENDRICK GREG TATE ON KENDRICK

Kendrick Lamar's

Wackiness, lamentation, the gnashing of teeth have become the spiritual condition of America, regardless of whether your candidate won or lost the last presidential election....

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1 year

IT’S OFFICIAL!!!!! WE ARE MAKING A DOCUSERIES ABOUT BLACK TWITTER

Onyx Picks Up Gabourey Sidibe Comedy Pilot, Docuseries About Black Twitter

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jason

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4 years

they’re playing a bootleg of little women in the barbershop this is peak barbershop

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8 years

"You have to love you." —Serena Williams, the G.O.A.T. [photo by @s_p_e_r_r_y ]

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5 years

premium content

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6 years

all at once the noname album feels like a fairytale, a love letter, and a prayer

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3 years

Acting Black and White Onscreen

Race as a performance in “Passing” and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.”

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6 years

🚨🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL YALL!! BLACK HISTORY MONTH NOW STARTS ON JANUARY 11 🚨🚨

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It's a '90s kind of world. Again. Living Single, the entire series, streams January 11, only on Hulu.

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8 years

if kendrick really drops his untitled sessions in the next 24 hours there is a good chance i will ascend into heaven and never return

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"I’m from a place where nothing is permanent—not housing, not family, not freedom—and yet these shoes have always been there"

Letter of Recommendation: Nike Air Force 1s (Published 2019)

Love letter to an iconic pair of old-school kicks.

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2 years

that rihanna ig bathroom photo gotta go in the smithsonian

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3 years

writing always seems like a good idea until the writing part

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4 years

how is it only tuesday i've aged 5 years in the past 48 hours

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6 years

even frank ocean shook

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8 years

i want to live in this gif forever

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8 years

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 MICHELLE OBAMA IS IN THE FADER MICHELLE OBAMA IS IN THE FADER MICHELLE OBAMA IS IN THE FADER

Michelle Obama On The Life-Changing Power Of Going To College

The First Lady of the United States discusses the importance of higher education.

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6 years

STATE OF THE UNION 2018

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3 years

the correct phrase you're looking for is white thugs

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6 years

happy first father's day to drake

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5 years

"Our black bodies literally have less economic value than the body of a white person. As soon as a white body moves into the same space that I occupied, all of a sudden this place is more valuable."

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7 years

a monster of a project. beautiful. important. necessary.

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4 years

i hate that 80% of the internet has become coronavirus content. we still need regular stories. we still need places to escape

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11 months

fx's dear mama doc about tupac and afeni shakur is one of the most impressive pieces of journalism i've seen in a while. stunned by how meticulous it is. from the breadth of unaired archival footage and the interviews to the way everything is layered. the detail is phenomenal

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6 years

I spent some time in the Bronx and wrote about how Ghetto Gastro has become a micro-revolution in food and art