Judnick Mayard

Judnick Mayard is a freelance writer and event producer living in her native Brooklyn. Her nickname as a child was "rude booty" and she tweets excessively @judnikki.

TERRENCE AND TARAJI DO DIDDY AND DEB

Hip-Hop Musical Chairs with a Soap Twist

Stories like this—Game of Thrones, Dynasty, King Lear—are usually reserved for rich white people having the privilege and means to be cruel to each other. Enter Empire.

Judnick Mayard

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GUILT

Your White Guilt Is Bringing Me Down

White people and nonblack people of color have the luxury of treating these cases as injustices. For them, it is moralistic. For us, it's about survival. A conversation about race.

Rawiya Kameir

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Urban

‘black-ish’ and the Invisible Black Man

Here is a primetime network sitcom that subtly explores a man's sense of failure to reaffirm his blackness, exacerbated by seeing the seedlings of erasure in his own home.

Judnick Mayard