The NFL has a domestic violence crisis on its hands, and everyone is acting like this is new. "Don't ask, don't tell" has been the world's view of domestic violence since the beginning of time, but once again the demonization of Black men in America is a perfect news peg to prove a point. The problem, aside from domestic violence,…
My mother always used to tell me not to let my mouth write a check that my ass can't cash... Read the e-mail first. Click here to read the e-mail. A Twitter storm emerged over the weekend after a two-year-old racist e-mail from Hawks owner Bruce Levenson came out. In the e-mail the owner is expressing his concerns about…
"Shannon was the valedictorian when she graduated from a city school, only to find out when she enrolled in a community college that her education was so slipshod that she needed remedial classes. (Only 58 percent of the city’s black high-schoolers graduate within four years; of those, 13 percent are prepared for college, according to the New York State Education…
The situation in Ferguson, Mo. was brought up at the United Nations convening in Geneva as a part of the world's check-up on America's progress in racial disparity issues. Trayvon Martin's mom and Jordan Davis's dad were present. This is serious. Just this morning Al Sharpton said, "while we lecture others about their police state, we can't have one ourselves,"…
It is one of my pet peeves when white people refer to a neighborhood as "sketchy" as a code word for black or brown and this is why http://valleywag.gawker.com/smiling-young-white-people-make-app-for-avoiding-black-1617775138/+sambiddle I'm sad that I haven't seen more of the films on this list http://flavorwire.com/467279/50-essential-feminist-films/view-all Actual time, energy and effort from this country's newspaper of record was put into this http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/upshot/that-honeydew-melon-looks-good-but-does-anyone-eat-it.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes
This was floating around next week. I think more disturbing than the negative images and words said about women in entertainment, is the negativity that they received on the "news." Most of these clips come from Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc. Women in politics and communications seem to particularly have the glass ceiling lowered on top of their heads. http://www.upworthy.com/a-glimpse-at-how-the-media-treated-women-this-year-is-a-look-at-way-too-many-cringe-worthy-moments-aa3-5c-2\ This…