I watched the fifth episode last night and noticed her name and then it all connected. She heavily favors Uma! I was trying to figure out who Maya reminded me because she’s one of my favorite things about this season. I can’t believe I’m so old that I remember seeing pictures of Uma’s post-baby body after she had Maya …

Thank you to Rooo for this suggestion.

Grad school is reading and writing and writing and reading. I’ve been mostly happy with the selection so here is my list of summer reading (and feel free to add to it):

I have been AWOL! I’m so sorry! Things are just fucking great with me and if feels like all the stars are aligning in my life.

This was one of the monthly books I had to read for school and I fucking loved it. It’s a historical fiction plot of families living on the Virgin Islands and it spans over about 60 years.

It’s been a crazy month. My boyfriend’s family announced that they were coming to visit, which made us realize that our apartment doesn’t look like we’re adults in our 30s. We spent a few weeks redecorating and making upgrades with the furniture (like buying a dining table) and whatnot. It looks great now and we were…

Yes, that is billion with a ‘b.’ Here is the story. I had originally wanted to write a big piece on it but that terrible New Zealand white terrorist attack took all my attention this weekend. I’m glad to see that New Zealand doesn’t fuck around with the lives and safety of their citizens and took zero time to implement…

This news broke this morning of a major scandal:

There’s a lot of fuckery surrounding this and the trolls are out in force on The Root. Feel free to talk about everything here and pass it onto others.

Inspired by recent events, today’s black excellence is Robert Tanner Freeman, the first professionally black dentist.

I’m catching up on missed episodes of Top Chef and in the Charleston season, they have an Edna Lewis elimination challenge. I’ve heard her name before but was not aware of the heavy influence that she has done for southern cooking. Apparently it wasn’t taken all that seriously in the past but Lewis changed that.

I found a list of short story collections by Black women:

I loved all the music everyone shared! I love discovering new music and y’all have good taste.
I apologize for disappearing. Some asshole guest came into job and got everyone sick. For serious. This person must have been running a fever along with bathing in their own shit and decided that going into a public place…