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The culture wars have been in full force since Donald Trump attacked NFL players, calling them “sons of bitches” for kneeling in protest of anti-Black violence during the national anthem. An interesting result of this attack on Black men utilizing their free speech has been the claim that they should instead be grateful for their opportunity to […]

As NFL training camps get started, teams are starting to get a feel for what their final 52-man rosters will look like once the regular season kicks off. This is the time of year where players are cut, replaced, traded and then some for teams to get what they feel is the best group possible. […]

  The following piece is from Daily Kos. It was written by AyDeeTheGreat. By: AyDeeTheGreat Clemson University doesn’t care about Black students. It doesn’t seem to care much for any of its students who represent diverse communities on campus. I’d go even further and say the institution is not so much concerned with students at […]

I never had to deal with colorism most of my life. It wasn’t until these past few years, I realized that racism is not the only hurdle we must overcome. I don’t want to sound predictable. I want to share my thoughts with you. I’m a brown skinned woman. Brown as in carmel. As in Reginal Hall or Halle Berry […]

This bears repeating: Black women are awesome. In a few weeks–actually, in a few days–if you asked someone who Antoinette Tuff is, there is a chance that the response will be, “The lone woman MC named in Kendrick Lamar’s verse,” or something else equally silly and clueless. Even though we will, we shouldn’t forget Antoinette Tuff’s […]

Dr. Cornell West and Tavis Smiley recently sat down for an interview with Democracy Now. And Dr. West pulled no punches; calling Obama a “A Rockefeller Republican in Blackface;” and essentially calling Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Sharpton and Michael Eric Dyson sellouts. Thoughts?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXmuhWrlj4&feature=channel When Sarah Palin burst onto the scene with her country patois and off-beat monikers it was clear that beyond being animated, she was both a leader and role model to one of the most underrepresented groups of people–stupid white folks. Juxtaposed to Michelle Obama with her premium Ivy-League education, Sarah Palin was a mom […]

“They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At […]

In a 1991 Senate confirmation hearing  Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas said:  “This is not an opportunity to talk about difficult matters privately or in a closed environment. This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any […]