I served for 26 years alongside many black women who wore their hair as depicted in the photos (not the headband, though). They looked tidy and professional and it in no way negatively impacted their job performance. This was an unnecessary rule. You deal with individuals who don't comply with regulations by adopting…

Ugh now I am jonesing for fish n chips, thanks to the second story, but there are no good places around here for fish n chips. HUNGRY.

This is from back in the day, decades ago. One morning I got on the subway at the Bedford Ave. stop with my long Brooklyn hair (it was decades ago, we all had it). It was jam packed (usual) but I noticed a break in the bodies so I sidled toward it because I was young and foolish. (Stupid, I know. NEVER, ever head…

Marget Atwood once recalled that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, "They are afraid women will laugh at them." When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, "We're afraid of being killed."

The camera's white balance was set to "AUTO", so it didn't give a correct color representation. The photographer/editor decided to add some red and yellow to a very blue photo. It's not a tweak, it's a correction.

The entire point of this article is that they don't go "into space."

My husband (we celebrated 20 years married last week) just spent 4 hours taking the extensions out of my hair for me, with nary a complaint, but with a top-of-the-head kiss every time I gasped in pain. I had an extraordinarily shitty first 20 years on this earth, and since I met my husband, he has worked 24/7 to heal…

Oooooooh, lawyers!

Rape victims are innocent. That's a false equivalency. And no, journalists don't have an obligation to keep information they've obtained secret. I never see any concern for all the subjects of the stupid criminal type. I only ever see concern for the privacy of men who are rapists. Why is that?

I am a mom and it is definitely a lot of work. Different work than my 8-5 corporate gig, but certainly work. But this bugs me for a few reasons.

Why did you accept the foremost frontline position? Outside of it being the only job you qualified for, you probably felt a call to serve to the best of your ability. Why can't women feel what you felt when you signed up? What about female medics and EOD techs and pilots who have experienced combat? Your feelings and…

Oh god. Shut up.

I'd really like to read a Friendzone that doesn't involve the writer backing away from, disconnecting from or discarding people. It's getting tired and in real life, most of us don't just dump friends or loved ones whenever they become "toxic" or maybe just a bit difficult.

MizHandmaiden - the statistic you cited and linked was from 1987. The current research shows that 40% of all adopted children are adopted transracially. http://www.aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/09/NSAP/ch…

My cousin recently adopted an adorable child of color and has faced the criticism from plenty of people of color. But, you know what? That child was seven years old, and had been in the system since she was 9 months old. Maybe my cousin is "robbing her of her culture," but she's also giving her a roof over her head…