Hence is why I said "manufactured", though I do agree that the media ran away with it to make it their latest Black-Women-Are-Damaged headline. However, I still place the majority of the blame on the self haters who decided to make her hair an actual topic in the first place.

Sounds like these folks wanted to avoid reenacting the clusterfuck that self-loathing Negroes manufactured about her hair by all costs.

That gif sums up Jill's entire run on that show

I didn't care for the duet she'd done with her ex-hubby on the first album, but I thought that Que Hiciste (sp?) was alright.

No, you're spot on. Whatever it is that she calls singing is fucking horrendous.

I bet that

I like you, Shaki, really, I do (as I think that you're one of the few pop stars that are truly as intelligent as project yourself to be), but you haven't had me since this crossover masterpiece*.

My only gripe about this is that the fabulous Joy Reid's ascent didn't amount to the ousting of lame-as-fuck Toure.

It's nothing that hasn't been speculated before (Jennifer 2.0 stalking Ben to make him husband #2 as a means of increasing her stock in Hollywood [much like she did when she dumped Noel Crane for Michael Vaughn, him cheating on her while she looks the other way because she isn't trying to lose her status as a…

Womanism (as I perceive it, since I don't want to speak for anyone other than myself) is a female-empowering movement that particularly caters to both the racial and gender issues that plague/affect Black women.

That sounds about right.

This was one of the earliest incidents that set me on the road to being the womanist that I am today. To say that we are forever in debt to Professor Hill for the fuckery that she soldiered through without wavering an inch is an understatement.

I'm going to have to look these feuds up for more details, but I will say that I hate to see a decently talented artist (considering the alternatives in this day and age) sabotage herself since she seemed to be doing a good job in bringing back one of my favorite childhood music eras.

I admit that I don't know her beyond Licorice, but I wonder whether this is a case of her being mismanaged by TPTB or her being an asshole.

I'm not here for Ben Affleck's tears since he had the luxury of crawling back into the minivan nation's good graces by getting with their queen, Jennifer Garner, and rehabbing his image* after he had the nerve to take up with the other Jennifer who "sullied his good name". Said Jennifer was never provided the…

I can actually see both sides of this debate amongst us. On one hand, you want a heavy hitter like Dana to stand up & be a visible and powerful Black LGBT. Yet, history has proven time and time again that being cast out from your community while not truly being given a damn about by white folks can wear down the…

Not that I care for either Kendrick Lamar or Wacklemore, but I'm cracking the hell up at all the folks who are livid over the constant reminders that the latter is the latest Pat Boone of music - as if others should be grateful that he is essentially aping a Black genre while casting himself as above its musicians by…

Why wait until you get old, though? Patti and Aretha damn sure didn't.

Wait, people are actually shocked that the biggest culture vulture of my lifetime wasn't sorry about using a term that denigrated the very folks who she's thieved from for decades while trotting out that poor Black boy* as her latest pet Negro on the red carpet?

Actually, JHud is sampling Evelyn "Champagne" King's I'm in Love