President Obama has commented on Congressman and GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin’s controversial comments regarding rape, calling them offensive and asserting that we should not be making health care decisions on behalf of women.
Jonesboro Police have released a reenactment video that they believe proves that it was possible for 21 year-old Chavis Carter to have shot himself in the head while handcuffed in a police cruiser.
A recent article featured in the New York Times shines a spotlight on the impact of the NYPD’s “Stop and Frisk” policy on black women; confusion, humiliation, and sexual intimidation.
Morning, folks. As the end of last week approached, it became very clear that I’d have to address two very different stories: the all-around awesomeness of Gabby Douglas and this Chick-Fil-A poor excuse of a protest. There’s no clever way to introduce either topic or merge them together, so just check out what I have […]
There is no sound more ironic than the opening a coke can moments before entering into a slum. A conglomerate of carbonation crushing towards the corners of cups that flow-eth over with milk, honey, and the justified envious tensions between those who have and those who have not. I picked up my privilege, and let […]
17 year-old swimmer Lia Neal won a bronze medal as a member of the US 4×100-meter freestyle relay team on Saturday night!
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog to consider the following thoroughly silly inquiry: What if the presidential election were more like the Olympics? For reasons I may or may not share in a later blog, I very likely voted for the last time in 2008. I cannot, however, quit watching the Olympics with such ease. […]
25,000 high school and college students’ needed on SaveCampusDiversity.org by the amicus brief deadline of Monday August 6. The Supreme Court will decide whether colleges can continue to strive for diversity in their student bodies. Make your voice heard!
A new University of Delaware study has found that those who are in support of voter ID laws also tend to “harbor negative sentiments towards African Americans.” Apparently, this is ESPECIALLY true amongst liberals. Surprised?
When we blame Black women for our failure to be seen as “real men” 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.
The winds of change offered us another subtle and elusive breeze on the 4th of July as the nation celebrated another ironic Independence Day. Undoubtedly, many of you have already heard of Frank Ocean’s beautiful tumblr post announcing that his first love was a man. In delicate prose laced in a humble font sans serif, […]
I’m officially some sort of pop culture martyr. The BET Awards were last night. And instead of going my usual Sunday evening television watching route, I dissed the Gorga/Giudice feud for Sam Jackson and n’em. For those of you who missed it, forgot, or thought better of it, I noted the important moments and provided […]
