Support the Girls was such a good movie! She really shined in her role as Lisa. Really all the actors worked very well together and it really felt like I was watching someone’s life. Definitely one of my favorite movies of 2018.

The majority of the teachers I had from 1-12th grade were Black and I hadn’t realized this was something out of the norm until I went to a PWI for college. I thought this was normal because I grew up on the south side of Chicago where everybody is Black, always, so it would have been weirder to me if the majority of…

I’m kinda salty that this seems to be the end of Molly + Andrew. I think his realness could be very good for her but she was too sensitive for it. I think she knows she was in the wrong about the whole Dro situation and didn’t like someone she was romantically interested in pointing that out.

Ugh, my mom absolutely adores Tory Burch everything. They were having a “sale” around my birthday and she sent me the link saying “oh wow, everything is so cheap! You should buy something!” I kid you not, the cheapest thing was still like $100. On sale. 

I’ve seen it twice already in mixed crowds but I’ll be seeing it again this Friday at an exclusive screening sponsored by a whole bunch of Black orgs on my campus and I know how fun it’ll be.

I get Danielle Brooks a LOT. I don’t see it but I’ll take it, cuz she fine lol

I had no idea people don’t wash their faces regularly. Like, I knew it was a stereotype for men to not care about skincare but I thought that just meant everything after the face wash. I admittedly have a pretty blasé skincare routine (but looking at these replies maybe not so blasé) that’s only like, 4-5 steps…

kinda weird and not really pop culture, but my mom banned us from watching Caillou (which I suppose shows my age lol). She said he was a brat and she didn’t want us thinking we could whine and get whatever we wanted. Also couldn’t watch Ed, Edd & Eddy for similar reasons lol

I think Chicago is unique in this sense. Even someone who may look more East Indian as your sister would probably be regarded as Black, especially depending on the neighborhood one grew up in. In any case, I don’t identify myself as an African American either, which is honestly just semantics. I’m Black.

I agree I think the heavy segregation in the city has fueled kind of the monolithic racial identities that you see? Certain sections of the city are Black and Black only, Little Italy/Little Mexico/ Jew Town (not called that anymore)/ China Town, are all descriptors that are race-based through immigration and Black…

As a Chicagoan, I think this might just be a Chicago thing? My experience growing up was very similar, it wasn’t until I went to college out of state that Black people I was around, sectioned themselves off as one nationality or ethnicity or another. Back home everybody is just Black first, even the mixed kids so it…

No problem! I think it’s definitely a useful teaching tool for young Black and Brown kids! She’ll be happy to hear someone thought it was cool lol

As a Chicagoan (and a South Sider) I really liked this pilot. I loved how Waithe subtlety threw in lingo and made the characters very realistic.

Basically, we’d talk about each principle, what it stood for, and how we could effectively “act out” the principle in our day to day lives. So for like Kujichagulia which is Self Determination, she would try to talk about what it means for us to define ourselves as Black and what our Blackness is rooted in, outside of…

I love Kwanzaa! I’m one of the only people I know who actually grew up celebrating it, for some reason. My momma did not play, we had whole ass ceremonies for each principle (but we also learned about Hanukkah even though nobody in my family is Jewish? She’s all about cultural inclusion lol). I also went to a Black…

I actually don’t use the word aunt to refer to any of my aunts lol. Everybody is “Auntie/Titi/Yaya” and I think we all got the cousin you don’t let near the coat room because things are liable to turn up missing if they find out.

I understand the dog thing, kinda. I love dogs and if I see one I immediately wanna pet it. Recently I’ve been trying to figure out the social etiquette of speaking to dogs without having to acknowledge their owners?

Wipe Me Down should be on this list as the “Other Other Black National Anthem” because if listening to it doesn’t give you faith in humanity, I don’t know what will.

yes. Ok I also grew up watching Suite Life and it took about three episodes of Riverdale for me to figure out who he was (I thought maybe he was a kid from my college who hit a break?? maybe we had class together? very confusing) and when my roommate pointed it out I was extremely shocked because 1. He was an adult (I…

I don’t understand why it continues to happen because we KNOW! I can tell when a person is pretending to be Black, whether it’s them saying ‘blacks’ or using AAVE incorrectly (I think they think there’s no wrong way to speak ‘ebonics’?) it’s always so glaring!