I have so many “progressive” black friends that are voting for Hillary, and it’s bumming me out. I follow so many…

I appreciate that Jon was speaking from the heart and that he bothered to address it. But when white people address…

OH I’M JUST OVER HERE EXPERIENCING A RAGE SPIRAL WITH BOUTS OF NAUSEA. YOU?

Y’ALL Ciara is WINNING! At least for the time being. At the White House State Dinner yesterday, superstar…

Mostly I’m making this post to say...Y’ALL I am so glad I started actually washing my face! Like what have I been…

I'm supposed to be finishing a writing assignment today. But I had a brain fart over one particular point in my…

I've known for a long time that I'm black and what that entails in a racist American society. I've only begun to…

This might have been lost in the fray of the worldwide protests against the latest nonindictments, but Akai Gurley…

I'd like to think that the advent of BEYONCÉ (the album) led to Beyoncé (the human) allowing us to see that she's a…

Although I've been natural haired most of my life, there was a three year period I had a relaxer. I did the big chop…

I'm kind of hoping Jezebel doesn't talk about Aaliyah anymore. No, not because I don't like her. I cried when I…

Talking about disparities in media portrayals of black people, and black women in particular, gets old. But it's a…

With the topic of street harassment hot on the interwebs these days, it didn't take long for Twitter to catch up.

Christmas came early.

Hello good people, it's rare a week goes by without threat of another black cultural term or practice being…

by being militant. and being your bae.

In an age when our attention spans are compromised by the rapid flow of information, we cannot forget the thread of…

A great examination of the Daniele Watts situation from Daily Kos complete with a much lengthier transcript in light…

May the melanin gods bless us with this agelessness.