I’m cackling at money in bras. Definitely saw that while growing up. I think some of the younger folks are trying cos, in truth, many got whatever triflin ways they have from our and previous generations. You KNOW we have our hot messes who never evolved. Across gender many of them are at least challenging some of the…

I think it’s another book. Cos the lecture was years ago. Sorry, too late to delete my question.

Thanks for this. I’ve been meaning to get it. If memory serves, it’s the one that discusses her activism, membership in the UNIA, her Grenadian heritage and grandma who was an Igbo princess. She was phenomenal yet until a lecture about it, I hadn’t known much beyond what I read in Malcolm X.

Your wanting Dr. Shabazz to get her due reminds me of why I mentioned the two Sista PhDs. One African-American/Black-American daughter of the Black South and one Haitian-American, daughter of immigrants raised in the city of Malcolm X’s birth. They’re generous, down-t0-earth and know how to converse in easily…

I LOVED that scene from The Wire!!! Thanks for bringing the laughter after I’ve wept over Malikah Shabazz’s premature departure.

Amn. In your comment of the article about her death, I referenced this very thread where we discussed the whole family. I wept from the heartbreak of it all. FeministOnFire, science is starting to show what many have known from spirituality or philosophy: trauma can and does affect our health (body/brain, psychology,…

Welp. I’m at least glad that her dude has her name tatted on his face as well. I wish her health, growth, maturity, compassion and love. She’s had some messy moments, including some ill-advised words for the other mothers of her ex’s children before she became a parent. In all seriousness, I want her to get good…

I pray for deep comfort, peace, love and support to envelop her sisters, especially her twin. This is indescribably sad. 

Yes, ma’am! She sure did. Sis, this news has broken my heart. We were just discussing her father and the lack of adequate support for her mother and family got. 

Thanks, Love. I came to The Root by way of VSB. It was exposure to a whole new cadre of writers for me. And the discourse in the comments was educative, affirming, provocative, challenging, humorous, paradigm changing, etc. In other words, it greatly reflected the writing of all the family branches culminating in the…

Method Man...Baybee!!! Lol. I’m just-a grinning over here. Whew. Still looking all types of GOOD. Blessings to his wife. We know he’s cheated on her, but like you said, he’s been protective of her and doesn’t brook disrespect. (Even many ugly scrubs feel entitled to cheat, it just seems like he matured.) Wendy was…

Sis, your “No no no!!!” was my instant response, too. But you know what I’ve come to believe? G/O Media is on some b.s. that has made working here untenable for our folks. I think writers and editors are silent about it due to professional constraints. They’ve left discreetly and graciously and while I celebrate each…

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the entitlement, etc. I’m referring to as the status quo is about Black men worldwide, not just those here or from here. I’m thankful and blessed to know their diametric opposites, but they’re fewer in number. To your point-  do you have any idea how raggedy it is to have only in…

I came back for the express purpose of checking for your reply and of course now I know what we all saw coming with the Rittenhouse verdict. Even when it’s plain as day, it’s still deeply disturbing. Tied to what you wrote is the same fking dynamic in all the situations: ensure that the demented who have power…

Welcome back, Sis! Girl, I was glad to read your words. I was supposed to reply to your farewell message to Michael Harriot yesterday and then after this here post, I was gone. I had no idea you were hacked. It all connects with what I’d planned to say. (I’ll do that next.) Trolls now freely abound and it seems to be…

You showed remarkable restraint in this thread. Sadly, trolling and deliberate obtuseness have become common here and it’s beyond the realm over which our writers and editors have control. One needn’t be enamored of Vanessa Bryant to see how callous this is or how devastating those images are to her, their children, h…

P.S. I was also very upset after the documentary on Netflix because the murderer in Newark’s identity was common knowledge. The whole “no-snitching” has been very lopsided with our folks. In Mario Puzo’s Godfather he was clear that while Italian/Sicilian communities didn’t speak to the cops, they handled it…

Good point. I concur. 

Multiple tragedies and irreparable damage. Meanwhile, the guilty who died without punishment and the so-called legal system’s complicit actors didn’t suffer.

Wishing you continued and greater success. Your work is characterized by sharing unflinching, clear-eyed truths in service of our liberation and well-being. You love Black/Africana folks and I hope that you experience deepest reciprocity of that from us whenever and wherever you travel -be it your hometown or across…