A few months ago, my friend sent me a TikTok. The video, captioned “When I hand my brother the aux,” features a man named Promise Uzowulu (@strong_promises on TikTok) and his brother sitting in the car and listening to music. If you’re familiar with TikTok, you may already know where this is going. His brother […]

After an abrupt flight back home involving my dad armed with a tub of Clorox wipes and a bottle of hand sanitizer in the two side pockets of his backpack, I arrived in the sweltering heat of Houston, Texas, and shed all of my winter layers. If you had told me I would wind up […]