By Thabiti Lewis, Associate Professor of English, WSU Vancouver

I liked Prince as a teen but I grew to really appreciate him even more for his music, fashion, business sense, and artistic creativity, as I became an adult. He is without a doubt a heroic role model of our era. He never stopped trying new things and challenging “tradition.” Undaunted by norms, he was willing to be a daring, inventive, radical, free, and unreconstructed human being. » More …