The very people Erica Garner was critical of will gentrify her image and message, just like they did with MLK...

smh. What an idiotic comment - first of all the original settlement was for 5.9million, not 9 million (much of which would go toward legal fees), which was then reduced to 4 million by the city. But that’s to be split amongst his whole family, not just for Erica... she herself was only going to receive $163,600 of…

Thank you for sharing this powerful tribute to an incredible woman, Kirsten.
I realized the extent of Erica’s “unbought, unbossed” reach when her incredibly moving commercial endorsing Bernie Sanders last year got Harvey Weinstein (yes, that Harvey) to contact long-time friend Hillary Clinton and advise her to “use…

There are many things in this life that we cannot change by ourselves. Our mental and physical health IS something that we can change

You do realize that her heart attack was precipitated by an asthma attack, right? And that trauma affects us physiologically in ways medicine still cannot understand nor mitigate?

“It’s a Mediterranean thing.”

I have an Autonomic Disorder, and it has stolen my life. I can’t imagine traveling the world and/or performing with one. Hopefully hers is a relatively mild form. Mine is severe and I can no longer paint due to it and my comorbid conditions...

Allen never lived with Farrow under one roof. He has denied having been a father figure to Soon-Yi. You also should know that the claim of ephebophilia (sexual interest in mid- to late adolescents) does not jibe with the accusation of Allen sexually assaulting then 7 yo Dylan Farrow. That would be known as pedophilia.…

Yeah - I actually go into that in detail in my most recent comment - https://jezebel.com/1821654388 - along with the fact that he tried to seduce the teenage actress that he cast to play his own love interest...

As I said - she was his defacto daughter: he never officially adopted her (Mia did) but he was in her life as a father figure due to his long-term relationship with her adoptive mother Mia, since Soon-yi was around 8 years old. And as you say, it only came to light when Soon-yi was 21... because Mia found nude photos…

I had no idea who Victor Salva was either prior to your comment, but my problem with Woody Allen isn’t just the accusations against him by Dylan. I also have a problem with him starting a relationship with his teenage defacto daughter (he was in Soon-yi’s life as a father figure since she was 8 years old, due to his…

Also, The Root should make shirts and shower curtains and all manner of merchandise (with profits going to PoC creatives in need of funding) of this note:

The editor comments are hilarious, but this excerpt just... I don’t even know what to say amidst my laughter:

“Greek Mama’s Boy” is unnecessarily redundant😉 (I lived in Greece - no matter how old a man over there is, he’s always a mama’s boy... and not ashamed one bit about it😄).

This reminds me of a very old “Point, Counterpoint” piece on The Onion featuring Vicky The Dental Receptionist (or something like that) and her Office PC. It’s hilarious. I think the headline is something like “My computer totally hates me!” vs. “Oh my god I hate that bitch.” 😂

(I’m assuming no caption is needed :)

😂😂😂

Women are dismissed from Emergency Rooms not just for unrecognized heart attack symptoms, but all kinds of potentially fatal issues, as women’s pain is not taken as seriously as men’s. And this isn’t just an opinion, they’ve done studies on it.

That’s the thing: this woman is SEVENTEEN YEARS OLDER than Meghan!