10 New YA Nonfiction Books Worth Adding To Your TBR Pile

Want to take a break from your beloved fantasy, contemporary fiction, and sci-fi books? Look towards nonfiction books. There are many Young Adult nonfiction books releasing in 2020 that can enlighten you on American democracy, how to write a book,…

Album Review: Run the Jewels – “RTJ4”

“You watch the cops choke out a man like me… ‘til my voice goes from a shriek to a whisper, ‘I can’t breathe’” goes Killer Mike on “Walking in the Snow”, a song recorded months ago, and which now sounds…

YES NO MAYBE SO Authors Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed on canvassing, political activism, and their love letter to Atlanta

It is a new year, a new decade – and it’s election year. With many calling this election the most important race in years, it is no surprise that we are seeing an increase of discussions of political activism in…

Movie Review: The Journey Ditches Ideology in Favor of Sentimentality

The Journey  isn’t a “bad” film.  Neither is it particularly good. The film tells the kinda-sorta true story of avowed-political-enemies-turned-best-of-friends Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and serves as a showcase for its two leads. Spall in…

Book Review: The Last Human by Ink Pieper

This fictional story plays on sensitive issues that are seen in the real world but never discussed which involve politics, governmental control, war, power, money, freedom, and the ultimate cost of human life. This story starts with Clay a strong…

Book Review: Riot by Sarah Mussi

Tia Thomson is a 16-year-old girl who is rebelling against her father by being apart of a youth rebellion. She goes by different names like; Eve, Darknet7, and Janbond007 as she hacks into different sites to get information and help…

Let’s Get Ready to Rrruuuuuuummmmbbbbbbllllleeeee (Verbally, of course)

There’s nothing like a good debate. The topics, the responses, the comebacks, and the insults subtly thrown at the dueling combatants are just a few of the things that people look forward to when debate season comes up. For the…