What happens when you lose the person you care about the most? How do you deal with that grief? How does it express…
What happens when you lose the person you care about the most? How do you deal with that grief? How does it express…
There’s an innate groundedness, a humility, about actress and singer Merle Dandridge. It’s a quality that’s…
Emotional maturity and emotional intelligence are key factors in maintaining healthy relationships—romantic or…
I recently recounted for some friends an incident that occurred on a Los Angeles train where a white woman sitting…
Lubaina Himid is a visual artist whose drawings, paintings and installations reflect the African Diaspora, and on…
Cardi B, we’re really happy for you and we’re gonna let you finish, but girls from the hood been at this for a…
DeShuna Spencer admits that the idea of an online library of black indie films started from ambitions she’d admit to…
Men, we need to have a talk. Again. Do you mind if I leave the door open for this one?
Sailor J thinks she knows my life. My entire insecure, aggressively honest (or just aggressive), disorganized and…
It has almost become a mantra these days: “I can’t believe that this is happening in 2017.” The way race relations…
The older daughter of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama is back in the news just for being…
Russell Simmons is like one of those creepy old black pastors that used to be a street Hustler when he was younger and just figured out that God is the most powerful drug of all. Always thought he was a shady piece of shit, can’t say I’m glad I’m right though
It’s not about narrative, really; it’s about drive. Having something to offer the world is purpose. Benefiting society is purpose. Purpose can be anything—it’s just the thing that motivates you to keep going even though there are countless things working against you at all times.
Counterpoint: Every time Lena Dunham fucks up feminism ALL feminists pay a price. She opens us up to mockery, scorn, and younger women that have been indoctrinated to believe a feminist is some sort of bra burning heathen communist are less likely to stop and listen.
Good. I wish EVERYONE who claims to be feminist or progressive would sever ties. I’ll never forget the Jia Tolentino piece on Jezebel which in my very humble opinion did not go far enough at all, and the scores of commenters who were willing to give Lena pass after motherfucking pass despite example after…
Writer Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose, has announced that she will no longer be writing for Lena Dunham and…
“The vibe was very much like, ‘Do I want to f— it? Is it wearing a … yep, it’s wearing a tuxedo,” Dunham continued. “I’m going to go back to my cell phone.’” It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie. I was like, ‘This…