This one tells the story of the gender-conscious black male. Nothing is special about these individuals, but the universal disregard for womyn ensures problems in recognition. The people that we showcase, that we respect or esteem at high levels, reflect our understanding of society. What makes us proud of other people is our comparison of […]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv658wfVt6I The generation’s identity reveals itself in the sound waves that stimulate the collective conscious. Speech, which is the vocal reality of knowledge, enters the minds of youth through Hip-Hop among other things. We’re not only listening though. Young MCs speak, talk about the experiences of the black future in 2012. Our generation’s sound waves […]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccx7xYBArBc Over the past few weeks, the conversation around Black masculinity has been particularly invigorated in several ways. From Frank Oceanās coming out to Lupe Fiascoās shedding tears on thinking of the violence in Chicago, weāve seen Black men produce profound moments of emotionāin a society where the showing of emotion is often positioned as […]
Tribal relationshipsāunions of people that involve romance and creativityāare hard to maintain because of conflicting worldviews. What it means to be a man or womyn in love causes problems for many tribes because their demands and dreams clash without a middle ground. Since I’m raised to be a black male by other black males, my […]
When we blame Black women for our failure to be seen as āreal menā in a White racist society we only show ourselves to be immature. Our mothers, our sisters, our aunts, our girlfriends, our wives, and nieces are not our enemy.
Thereās only a black love because relationships with black people make us talk about our problems. Since Iām a black man I tell my girlfriend what frustrates me about the way Iām (un)treated. When my āotherā friends always ask about what itās like to be āblackā, I tell her. No matter what she gets me […]
Last night Monday I stumbled across an article with the headline, “Man who had 30 kids with 11 women wants child-support break.” Of course the ethnicity of this father turned out to be Black. My first reaction to this story was a shaken head, because Black male bodies seem incapable of accountability. Missing fathers, no […]
Since I was a little a brown girl, I have always secretly wanted to save the world. Yes, the whole big world. To say the least, I was utterly enthralled with movies like Indian Jones and the last Crusade to the point of obscene dissidence to the 80s generational black-uplift narrative of being a lawyer […]
In January, I posed the controversial question, āWhat is the effect of a āblackā name in America?ā I explained the effect that āblackā names can have on job searches, finding that black named applicants wait an average of 15 weeks to find a job while white named applicants wait 10. I now question the effect […]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TqsOneO55o I have written previously on how much I love the web series,Ā The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. The show is original and features a young black woman who navigates her way through seen and unseen awkward situations on her job and in her relationships. Well, I am happy to report that the show is […]
httpv://youtu.be/0BIEMXOMyB0 I have written previously on how much I love the web series,Ā The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. The show is original and features a young black woman who navigates her way through seen and unseen awkward situations on her job and in her relationships. Well, I am happy to report that the show is […]
Last week, this site featured a trailer for the documentary, Dear Daddy, about young black women who grew up without fathers. In these last few months, it seems to me that documentaries about black women and their relationships to men and their relationship to the standards and mores of larger society have been of interest […]
