I’m deeply appreciative of your post. I’m in my 40s and definitely grew up with the various gender, racial, religious and cultural pressures to marry and have children in my early 20s and would have had things gone according to plan. Despite the pain of the break-up and the wounds born of that experience (he was my…

This is very upsetting. I wish her -and her departed son- peace. I wish love, health, peace, comfort and consistent support to her children and those who loved her well.

Ditto. A friend’s daughter in her mid-twenties awoke to a White man in overalls looking at her while she was sleeping (We’re Black). She opened her eyes to him standing there and screamed. I don’t think he was menacing or anything, it’s just terrifying to experience in her mother’s newly purchased old home along the…

Same :) It always feels like a cool discovery with etymologies, changes in denotation or connotation over time, social/historical perspectives- harmful, helpful, neutral, etc.

I’m clearly replying to the wrong article. But I wanted to say I appreciated your thoughtful comment in response to my using the word, demonym, to correct the article title on The Root about Ghana.

Unfortunate, but I get it.

Shout-out to her taking this position, given her international visibility as a person of our Ghanaian heritage. It may also be safer for her than a queer person from home (or who lives here). It was thanks to The Root’s Shamira Ibrahim that I realized we now have some of the most draconian anti-LGBTQIA legislation…

Thank you! Ditto. Your comment pulled mine into the conversation, something I rarely do now. It was informative, too.

Unfortunately, because some of our younger people were unfamiliar with work he did decades before we were alive, Jay-Z and Beyonce stans dragged him. He rightfully expressed disappointment in stars who underutilize their massive platforms which could help galvanize movements for liberation. Finger-wagging doesn’t…

Oh, for sure. CIA, too. Stevie Wonder went down to Jamaica to support Bob Marley. And the FBI had a file on Bob. They especially don’t love it when Black folk get to huddling with Black folk from different places. Stevie’s proudly BEEN part of movements. What blew my mind in terms of deviousness was learning Harry…

I really feel for her because the backlash was as swift as it was ubiquitous. And that sense of needing to sacrifice oneself for the so-called greater good is damaging. I was excited when the show came out cos the last Asian-American show I recalled was Margaret Cho’s ages ago. As a Black woman from an immigrant…

“It’s not clear why the 58-year-old comic, born Cedric Antonio Kyles, dove into political waters, especially in what’s likely the most publicized race between two Black men in this election cycle.”

You’re out here doing important work cos after the first few lines, I stopped reading that mess. We’re not cosigning fellow Black people just for being skin folk. Active responsibility and diligent care are necessary components of the love so many of us claim to have for our race. Identifying and clearing weeds,…

Dear Kalyn Womack,

I’m really sorry that happened to you. Sadly, we know that this sort of thing had tacit acceptance by the general White populace even before it again became fashionable to be aggressively vitriolic and hateful. I offer support as many of our people have done for centuries to denounce gratuitous injury -psychic and…

Thank you so much for receiving my words and sentiments as intended . I never want to overstep.

I step in gingerly as though I’m Black, I’m of direct African lineage. I’m pushing back a bit that the Black-American/African-American community doesn’t take your/their suffering seriously. We live in a nation which the White power structure has trivialized, diminished and been callous about all they’ve done (and do…

Thank you for this and your other comments in this thread. It needed to be said. However, at this juncture, I rarely bother to say anything because it’s so clear that writing about us, our lives and those of our folks whose lives/work informs ours frequently misses the mark. Typically, there are bombastic remarks,…

Interesting article. There’s much I appreciate about him and but there are also frustrations. Nevertheless, I wish him and his family well. His audiobook demonstrates his linguistic ability; I appreciated hearing phrases from the various African languages in which he’s fluent.

Ditto. Starred in agreement. In addition to the cruelty of her actions, anyone willfully indifferent to the active suffering of others as they feed their addiction should NOT be allowed to be responsible for ANY children. Period. Especially with her own children she can act with more impunity. I stress this because…