Feature | the Cookout | Keyona Porshaà Alchemy: Who is Namialus Validity, and where did the moniker come from? Sulaiman Miguel: Namialus Validity is my first name spelled backwards, and validity comes from just being valid. It came from trying to find an original name and something that no one could copy. My regular nickname, S. Dot, was so easily found online, and I wanted to have something original. Alchemy: Who, if you can credit anyone, would you say was instrumental to

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Arts & Culture | the cookout | Nieema Williams I love the way black people communicate with each other. I love the way Black people do our ‘ thang.’ We have a private language, cultivated despite hundreds of years of culture cleansing, and forced assimilation whose mission was to strip away our native tongues. Having to meet and speak with life-threatening secrecy, our ancestors created this morse code within us. This is one code that we do not have to worry about being hack