Bless you for taking me back to my tween years when my goal in life was to convince my family to get JJ braids.

I feel bad for your cousin, too.

*dragging Roo sez BISH PLZ out of cave to give her dap*

The great Black romantic movies (i.e.: the aforementioned Love Jones, The Best Man, Mo Betta Blues, etc.) got sucked into the Tyler Perry Vortex of Hell.

Upon reading the first part of your comment, I was two seconds away from informing you that you've wasted your keystrokes in truthtelling around these parts. However, as I continued to read, your astute assessment of the Black-woman-disrespecting Secret Squirrel that she is bearding simply brings home the point that…

Thanks for clarifying. My hope is that Stickfly is successful enough ratings-wise as a TV movie for HBO to invest in it as a series.

Not that I disagree with the truth that you speak, but there are plenty of Blacktors/Blacktresses who have chosen to not shuck and jive for a slice or two of validation from white folks. Donald Glover's choice to be the newest hipster token, in fact, a choice and not something that he was forced to do in order to…

I'll pass on Deception (sounds too much like Revenge for my taste) and Solange (don't care for her or her family), but thanks for the heads up on Stick Fly. Since I was too broke to see it on Bway, I'll gladly see it on HBO (do you happen to know if this'll be a TV movie or a series?).

I'm referring to his canned Black-women-aint-shit responses to legitimate criticism about touting his wife as the epitome of beauty in spite of her co-opting the physical features of the very group of women that he disdains.

Aw, man. I was hoping that this news wasn't true...

Considering that this is whom Tracy felt worthy of making his wife (while shitting on Black women in a pathetic attempt to place her on a pedestal), I feel nothing but smug satisfaction at it all blowing up in his face.

What would music today sound like if these kids didn't exist?

Thank you very much for that link, as she pretty much illustrated how I feel about Ike Brown while expounding on my initial comment (which definitely still stands, in light of the various responses to it).

I wish the Julius' existed in NYC.

I'd say that this show could balance the two, but this is a Disney show so I wouldn't hold my breath on them succeeding at that.

1. Well, Orange Julius is right about one thing - there's always drama when it comes to Halle and this clusterfuck of a custody case pretty much proves that. After years of thinking that the negative talk about her was solely borne out of petty jealousy, I'm now firmly in the camp of those who believe that she is a…

Since I know full well that certain folks consider Ike Brown to be the new-millennial Willie Horton and have discussed said folks' racist double standards ad nauseum, I'll simply add that I have zero problem with the vitriol that he spewed in response to that disingenuous asshole.

Say what you will about Denzel's (alleged) behavior in his personal life, but the man loves his daughter (I presume this is Katia, though I can't remember if she or Olivia is the twin or the older daughter) enough to tell her the unvarnished and blunt truth about how Hollywood treats Blacktresses - especially those…

It's one thing if she stated/admitted that she's only here to make money, but to attempt to insult folks' intelligence by whining about people 'not understanding' her grind is a bunch of malarkey.

If being a "fuck" consists of me not having any patience for her Al Jolson brand of bullshit, then I consider it the highest of compliments.