So I went to see the movie 12 Years A Slave with my parents last night. As we are in the bicentennial of the Civil War era and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Is Beautiful Movements we have seen a lot of slave and black rights films, and we will likely continue to see…
Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story aired on VH1 on Monday, October 21, 2013. It became the network's highest rated broadcast in five years with 4.5 million viewers tuning in to have their questions about this dynamic trio answered. TLC is celebrating their 20th anniversary as a group, even in light of the death pf Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, the…
I'm so over blog posts being treated as news and news being treated as blog posts. And news outlets have done this to themselves by not explaining their relevance to the public and not diversifying their newsrooms. In communities of color it's even worse because all we do is get our "news" from bloggers. Some Pakistani teenage girls got shot…
The researchers concluded that “the present work finds that people assume that, relative to whites, blacks feel less pain because they have faced more hardship.” I watched Oprah's Lifeclass Part 2 with Dr. Brene Brown last night. She is a sociologist who studies courage and vulnerability. Brene Brown started gaining national recognition when her TEDTalk based on her book Daring…