{"id":83012,"date":"2026-01-10T04:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T04:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:08:06","slug":"studio-2-extra-philly-writer-tre-johnson-talks-black-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83012\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio 2 Extra: Philly writer Tre Johnson talks \u201cBlack genius\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trejohnsonwriter.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tre Johnson<\/a> is a Philadelphia based writer and cultural critic. His debut book \u201cBlack Genius: Essays on an American Legacy\u201d explores creativity, identity, and the everyday brilliance found throughout Black life in America. To him, Black genius is cultural, communal, cerebral, emotional, and relational. And he sees it all over Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>\u200a\u201dI love that folks are using these dirt bikes to not just like show off, but to come back into the city. I know the noise stuff, I know the like clogging the lanes and stuff, but if you literally stand and watch these people, it is caravans of folks laughing, smiling. \u200aMany of these folks are having fun and they\u2019re forming community, which is a hard thing to do more and more nowadays in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tre Johnson is a Philadelphia based writer and cultural critic. His debut book \u201cBlack Genius: Essays on an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,12736],"class_list":{"0":"post-83012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-studio-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}