Frank Taaffe, former neighbor of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, has decided to collect signatures to block any future effort to erect a permanent Trayvon Martin memorial in his neighborhood.
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.
California rapper, Murs is sure to generate publicity with the clip for his new video, āAnimal Style.ā The song chronicles the troubled love affair between two young men, one of whom is not openly gay. Thoughts on the song and video? Is Hip Hop growing more tolerant?
“Do We Need to Start a Riot?” is a response to the recent report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement that states 110 Black people have been killed by the police in 2012, one every 40 hours Filmed on location in New York City at the historic march to end Stop and Frisk, and in […]
Last week, after I had finally purged all I had to say about Frank Ocean’s letter into a post, I once again returned to reading some of the responses that had been sent to me in the time since Ocean published his Tumblr post. Most of them did as I had lamented in my piece. […]
Although Frank Ocean is clearly the R&B man of hour, donāt expect to find his album at your nearest Target. The big box chain as decided not to carry Oceanās CD. Target says its because the album was already released digitally, not homophobia. Do you believe them?
A group of black clergy members protested gay marriage at the NAACP’s convention, claiming there are more pressing issues for the civil rights organization to attend to. Do you support marriage equality?
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke before the NAACP, and got booed. Responding later to the NAACP audience’s reaction, Romney said, “Remind them of this: if they want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy…”
“Booty Pop” features 6 year-old “rapper” Albert Roundtree Jr. rapping pool side, while scantily clad women “booty pop” all around him. It is beyond offensive. How could a parent let their child be in a music video like this, let alone PAY FOR IT?!
I’ve spent the last week treading in the liquid of a queer-flavored ambivalence, trying to determine why the Anderson Cooper and Frank Ocean coming out announcements mean less to me than other people. I have seen enough episodes ofĀ Coming Out StoriesĀ and foolishly subjected myself and my partner to the awkward anti-climax of telling my father […]
According to a recent study conducted by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation, black women are the most religious segment of the U.S. population. 9 out of 10 black women say they turn to God “as their spiritual guide in all areas of their lives.”
According to the New York Times, black and Latino New Yorkers are nine times more likely than whites to be “stopped and frisked,” but once stopped, they’re no more likely to be arrested. How do we put an end to this unjust program?
