White people in Florida don’t go to Chuck E. Cheese either. Actually, a lot of black people stopped going to the one in my town, including me. I stopped going with my kids several years ago because some parents thought it was cool to get into drunken fist fights at Chuck E. Cheese and others let their kids run buck…

I saw Axel Foley put a banana in the tail pipe, but you didn’t hear that from me.

Maybe the passenger was confused by the fact that Michaela Coel played a flight attendant on an episode of Black Mirror.

This law isn’t constitutional because employment choices are not a protected class status. I’m sure someone’s congressional aide told them this and yet they’re dumb enough to waste valuable time and litigation on a law that clearly violates the constitution because of mid term elections.

If America can reconcile having a rapist and human traffickers on its money, we can reconcile appreciating Kanye, R. Kelly and Bill Cosby’s talents while abhorring their behavior. Just don’t buy their stuff.

Never tell them what you think they can’t do, just help them find a way to make it happen. My son wants to design video games. That means I signed him up for a computer science magnet program for high school and paid for him to go to programming camps over the summer. I don’t pepper him with statistics about black…

When will we get enough of chasing after authoritarianism? It’s never done anything for black people except keep them in mental slavery.

Was the lady from the video complaining about poor black kids attending her neighborhood school the one who called the cops on this guy? Both incidents happened in the Upper West Side.

A commitment to authoritarian style leadership.

The root of Howard’s problem with its president and its board is a backlash against authoritarianism. It’s the reason why lots of younger black people are rebelling against the black church, it’s also the reason why older civil rights organizations can’t seem to recruit and keep younger members. I’ve noticed that a…

I have one question. Did he opt for the nuggets or the burger in his Happy Meal on his way to jail? They sure know how to manage to apprehend armed and dangerous white suspects without killing them.

I joined nextdoor just so I could find out who my racist white neighbors were.

I remember hearing Prince give an awards acceptance speech where he said that your friends are not on your payroll. People being unwilling to call you out because they rely on you financially is a big problem for the rich.

When my husband used to teach elementary school, he was constantly asked by the white female teachers to help them deal with disciplinary issues. The problem? There were no disciplinary issues, just their poor classroom management. Kids would be chitchatting and spitballing but the teacher’s irrational fear of the…

This takes me back to my college application days. I applied to several schools, a mix of HBCUs and PWIs. I was on the fence about where I wanted to attend, but administrative issues with the HBCUs (losing my application, delayed decisions on admissions and financial aid) that I applied to made me pick a PWI. A lot of…

Last time I checked, shooting a fleeing person in the back is against the law. The clerk felt he was above the law and now he’s learning a lesson in jail. The kid could’ve learned a lesson in jail about stealing, but the clerk decided to play judge, jury and executioner. So stop shooting people in the back and you…

As terrible as this incident was, it actually filled me with pride to read about the citizens of Sacremento standing up and making their voices heard.

Infrastructure upkeep is a problem that is plaguing HBCUs with anemic endowments. My niece just graduated from Cheyney and she was complaining about the same s lack of building maintenance that my friends who went there complained about 20 years ago. Also, isn’t Hampton the school that tried to ban dreads and cornrows…

Because especially during that time period, light skin privilege was a real thing that granted lighter skinned black people access to places that were denied to darker skinned black people. Thurgood Marshall’s prominence as a civil rights attorney was helped by the fact that his skin was more aesthetically pleasing to…

It’s not going to affect the criminal case, but it will definitely have an effect on the wrongful death lawsuit if Louisiana is a comparative negligence state. That means if he’s let’s say 80% at fault and the mother is 20% at fault, the damages against him are reduced by 20%.