A new reality tv show will focus on the lives of Shawty Lo and his ten baby mommas.; with whom he has eleven kids. Is this a new low for reality tv? Will you watch?
Megan Piphus, an upperclassman at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She’s using music, ventriloquism, and puppetry, to inspire youth to dream big and in color!
It’s sad that it takes a tragedy so horrifying it’s beyond belief to get us to recognize a problem that’s been staring us in the face for decades. The culture of violence that this country was founded on is as American as apple pie. Sadly innocent children and brave teachers were murdered in Newtown, CT, and we can only […]
Black meteorologist Rhonda A. Lee was fired from her position at a ABC affiliate in Shreveport, LA for responding to a racist facebook comment about her hair. Her employer alleges it violates company policy. Is her former employer justified in firing her? Should she sue?
A racist video made by two University of Minnesota Duluth students has sparked outrage. The two young women wear black face and engage in a wildly racist rant. Will white people ever stop filming/photoing themselves in blackface? Should these girls face expulsion?
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is yet again requesting that the President end the rather silly Thanksgiving tradition of turkey pardoning. In the letter, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said the act trivializes the mass slaughter of a gentle animal. But that’s not all. Newkirk went on to liken turkeys to people […]
It is true that “all the girls wanna play Baywatch” at the swimming pools full of liquor (Kendrick Lamar, “Swimming Pools”). Generation Y parties, both in college and high school, present you with a reality surfacing from the deep end of young adult freedom. Diving through the future, our new understandings of suffering blend with […]
A 19-year-old South African lesbian was fatally stabbed several days ago. Sihle Skotshi is the latest victim in a wave of anti-gay violence that has plagued South Africa. This is another unfortunate reminder of the ways that black LBGTQ youth are frequently in danger in their communities.
According to a recent report, black females represent the fastest growing segment of the juvenile justice population. The author of the report, Monique Morris, argues that it is extremely important that we expand the ‘school-to-prison pipeline” conversation to include black girls.
16 year-old Alicia Chanta Moore went missing on November 2nd; Her body was later found in a trunk off the side of a highway on November 6th. Her family believes the police grossly mismanaged the case. Where was national news coverage? Where was an Amber Alert?
Remember a few months back when Lupe Fiasco dropped “Bitch Bad” and magazine and scholars came out of the woodwork to diss Lupe for “mansplaining”? Spin Magazine took it the farthest calling it “reckless social commentary” and asking, “why must we continually endure Lupe Fiasco’s half-baked conscious hip-pop?” A few weeks later 2 Chainz and Kanye dropped the video for “Birthday […]
For weeks I’ve gone back and forth about whether or not to say what I’m about to. There are several reasons for this. First, I didn’t want to be repetitive, and what I’m going to say is in some ways an updated version of a couple of blogs I wrote on my old personal site […]
