So Un-ruly.com is hosted a "You Can Touch My Hair" event in NYC's Union Square Park on Saturday, June 8 from 2-4pm. The event was a response to the question, "Can I Touch Your Hair?" that many black women are asked about their hair styles and textures. Antonia Opiah, the founder of Un-ruly.com conceived this event after an interaction she…
"Every other Wednesday during my marriage, our apartment was filled with smoke from the cigarettes of all our friends. They drank in our rooms and made out on the fire escape. In the beginning, it felt like something truly important was happening. People came, and there was a bounty: cheese and grapes and bread and wine and all the alcohol…
"There is a tremendous stress on what you do if you have no profession or no other interest except being a lady." --Stella Adler Read her notes here.
“If you can’t get a job, and you majored in drama, there’s probably a reason,” said Huckaby, who oversees the state’s public colleges and universities with the guidance of the regents. Hank Huckaby is the Chancellor for the University Systems of Georgia, the body that oversees all of the state's universities. He made this comment while being honored for his…
The first comes from the Huffington Post and is called "Gays, God and Gospel music." This piece is a review of sorts, about an essay called "The Fan Who Knew Too Much" in a book of essays on the role gays have played in the world of Gospel music. "He considers much of the music coming from today's gospel performers…
Hipsters have gotten a bad rap lately. They have been called culturally insensitive, gentrifying teeny boppers who have no understanding of the world outside of their Twitter feed, but have the monopoly on cool. They are the ones who only buy their music from record stores, but listen to it on Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. But I remember what…