Tag: Hood

An Homage to The Hood

#1) They See Society as it is & They “Been Knew” The System’s Rigged That’s the first freedom. You see, those who were segregated, long ago and by design, have always known how the system works. They knew before many of us who are on social media, peeling through long ...

Jetpack Compose under the hood

The development of Android mobile apps is nothing new. We have been doing it since 2009, when the Android SDK was published. In the meantime, many APIs used for developing Android mobile apps were updated, but the general idea of app development remained. Looking at something as basic as accessin...

Pimp My Hood

Jack-o’-Lanterns with crazy faces pop out from behind inflatable giant spiders and larger-than-life monsters on front lawns brimming with tombstones and hanging ghosts and ghouls. Witches on broomsticks and scary silhouettes of flying bats and leaping black cats materialize from haunted cemete...

The Hood Dictionary: ā€œEā€ stands for Equality in the hood

African Americans have ongoing struggles they have faced in their pursuit of equal rights and opportunities in the United States. From slavery to the civil rights movement and beyond, African Americans have faced systemic discrimination, racial segregation, and unequal treatment in various aspect...

Hood Asians, Model Minority, and Black and White America

I’m not your model minority. I never have been, but people have assumed I am because I’m well-read, I’m well-spoken, and I write well. I often get mistaken for Chinese or Korean. At times, I’ve benefited from the model minority myth because people don’t see me as a thre...