Clearly it’s the viewpoint that Black women are the problem, you illiterate jackass.
In the wake of the reports that Toronto-born rapper/singer Tory Lanez shot Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion, there were disturbing tweets celebrating the fact that Lanez had shot the beloved ambassador of Hot Girls everywhere. In common conversation, men with a seemingly irrationally violent feeling of ownership over the bodies…
Harvey Weinstein and R. Kelly are just two of many men — Black and White — who have wielded both intimidation and crocodile tears
“I don’t hit women, but if I did, I would hit you.”
That’s what Charles Barkley told Axios reporter Alexi McCammond in November during a political event in Atlanta. His follow-up? Telling the journalist that she “couldn’t take a joke.” …
On Sunday, May 19th, Robert F. Smith delivered a keynote speech those in attendance would never forget. Smith pledged to eliminate the debt of nearly 400 students at Morehouse University, one of a few Historically Black Colleges which are regarded as elite. The complete total monetary valuation of Smith’s gift…
Southern writers, Southern artists have seemingly always been subject to a particular kind of stereotype, especially as it relates to their work located in the South and use of Southern verbiage and syntax. As far back as Zora Neale Hurston’s now landmark text Their Eyes Were Watching God, critics from…
Last week, I sat in and participated in a discussion about masculinity and how men are indoctrinated into it early by way of cultural and societal norms imposed on us by family and music and other modes of impression and adoption. And then the host, Josie Pickens casually mentions calling…
What does it mean to grow in the shade of the prison industrial complex and to become numb to state executions and protesting against lethal injections and the violence of the state becoming a viable option for employment to ensure your survival in a world that conspires to send you…
America is a landmine of violence if you’re Black, or Native American, or LGBTQ+ because its very existence forces you to negotiate between which forms of violence become acceptable for you to deal with. Having to choose between rhetorical violence, physical violence, spatial violence, and economic violence is no choice…
Of all the people weighing in on the importance of Eminem’s appearance on the BET cypher, I did not expect to hear an opinion from ex-political commentator and failed late night sports talk show host Keith Olbermann. Olbermann tweeted out that it was Eminem’s five-minute tirade about Trump that forced…
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