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Kanye West was caught with his foot in his mouth and down his intestines during an interview on The Breakfast Club. On Amber Rose’s recent comments about Kim Kardashian: “[Rose] is just soaking in the moment. Nobody feels compelled to do nothing. If Kim had dated me when I first wanted to be with her, […]

By Rachel Hill The first time I went to China, I was stared at with no shame. People enjoying a bowl of soup would put down the bowl and simply gawk. There was even a time when an elderly woman came up to me and rubbed the brown skin on my hand. My translator told […]

By Candice Iloh I don’t know Bobbi Kristina. Most of us don’t really know Bobbi Kristina. But we, as fans and spectators of her mother and fathers careers, have watched her development for years from the sidelines. We have watched her grow in the shadows of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston and, therefore, many of […]

From Telegraph: Unretouched images of the Queen of Pop have been leaked. Fan site The Beyoncé World has published photos they claimed were from Beyoncé’s 2013 L’Oreal ad campaign and show the singer with wearing her natural skin. Cue tweets from fans about how the singer looks #flawless no matter what, tweets from feminists about the fashion […]

By Jay Dodd A recent post from Mary Cheney (Fmr. Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter), she positioned the work of drag in comparison to that of blackface.Before we get any further, I think it is important to reiterate this comparison is sloppy and not needed. There are a variety of ways to critique drag (which we […]

By Dominique Hazzard I am a queer black woman. By this I mean that the words to describe my sexuality exist outside the margins, between the approved boundaries, beyond the limits of most imaginations. A queer thing is a thing that existing words cannot yet adequately describe, a thing that our language and our boxes […]

  By Elizabeth Todd-Breland “I wanted to reach out to you to thank and encourage you to continue to speak out against border-jumping families.”  This was the message delivered from a former Little League official to Chris Janes, the white Vice President of the Evergreen Park Athletic Association who accused Jackie Robinson West’s all-black Chicago youth […]

Laverne Cox of ‘Orange is the New Black’ fame is set to co-star in ‘Drama’, an new legal drama on CBS. From the Hollywood Reporter: Laverne Cox is going from Litchfield Penitentiary to the courtroom. The Orange Is the New Blackbreakout has been tapped to co-star in CBS’ buzzy legal dramaDoubt, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The drama […]

On Kanye West, Azealia Banks and a call for a deeper reading of their rage. By Jay Dodd Kanye’s narrative has been riddled with often sloppily generalised tantrums. While we must hold him accountable to his “seat at the table aspirations,” we often, as consumers of his frequency of Blackness, only hear him as whiny child begging […]

In a recent interview, Azealia Banks discussed her use of gay slurs. Banks, who is bisexual, doesn’t believe that she can be homophobic. “I definitely think a lot of the time with the ‘white gay media’ – especially with female artists – in order for you to seem successful or seem feminine you have to […]

This is selfie culture gone horribly wrong. Sixteen-year-old Maxwell Morton has been charged in connection with the death of Ryan Mangan, also sixteen. Morton was charged after a woman came forward and claimed that her son received a Snapchat from Morton showing a selfie with Mangan’s shot, slumped over body. The woman claimed that the […]

By Erika Dickerson While we were waist-deep in circular (yet necessary) conversations about Iggy Azalea’s Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album, her “blaccent,” and appropriation of Black music and culture at-large, the Grammy Awards were undermining Blk women in another way: the “tribute” performance for Ava DuVernay’s Selma. Let’s quickly recap the shameful dismissal that has […]