My grandmother was our family’s historian. We have a long history on her side, with black and white ancestry that very clearly starts with rape. We recently discovered a photograph from the plantation where my four times great grandmother was enslaved that includes a picture of her as young girl. The first time we saw…

Goddammit.

When the prognosticators talk about how ‘it’s so-and-so’s year,’ or someone like Stallone gets the nod who was the arguably the weakest link in a beautiful written, well-acted and incredibly thoughtfully directed movie, you know that ain’t none of them damn people watched the actual movie. They just thought . . . oh,…

I worked on the same lot as Spade, on the the Hughleys. That 70's Show also shot on the lot. The kids from 70's Show would steal his golfie all the time, and leave it places like Gilligan’s Island. He would come out in his bathrobe and walk over to me and say, “I know you know where it is, just tell me, I won’t tell…

I’m going there with you, because it sounds like a brilliant world.

I thought she meant it literally, as in when Farrah pushed the baby out. But maybe I’m giving her too much credit.

It’s on iTunes.

Sweet, sweet Kardashian Kash. I want in!

This is the best pic of pregnant Kim by far. It looks like an egg. It looks like an amazing egg.

This is really old news. The rumors started back in the umbrella days, and Rihanna’s publicist came clean about this years ago. Like, long before the elevator dust up. Search the Black entertainment blogs . . .

That’s not an apology. An apology would have said something that included being sorry that he not only interrupted her, but also belittled her viewpoint, and then would have said something about a larger conversation (which he, as a producer of the show, could have made into a more substantive and nuanced exchange if…

If that were so, his apology would have been totally different, I think. That’s what I was hoping he would say. But he didn’t.

We’re all struggling with the taking issue, which also comes into play when legislating affordability. DC has an interesting history— the locality’s home rule was fought for and implemented by some of the giants of the modern Civil Rights Movement. You’ve hit on the biggest thing in our development arsenal.

I actually work for a city councilmember, so this is an issue that we’re dealing with on a daily basis. My experience is that the impacted institutions grab at an issue like this in an effort to shine a light. There’s nothing inherently wrong with bike lanes. It’s good policy. Our job, though, is to listen to all of…

This is a church that actually makes a point of catering to the marginalized and disenfranchised people in the community in which they are located. In addition, there are many people whom they have helped get up and out of poverty who still come back to worship. They don’t have a right to prime real estate, but they,…

I can’t tell you how much my affection for you just grew— athousandfold? I already look forward to pretty much everything you write. This just makes you the greatest.

I understand what you mean, now. I’m not offended by it — mostly because it’s so much smaller than what’s at stake in the larger story. I agree, we’re all grown ups and two wrongs don’t make a right, but when you’ve felt and dealt with the problems of systemic racism all of your life, it feels good to have a moment to…

I’m genuinely trying to understand your point of view, but by repeating that it’s an ugly word, you’re not giving me a lot to go on. Are you objecting to it because you see it as some kind of powerful epithet?

You’d be mistaken. That’s actually me in the picture. I’m a Black woman. I don’t understand your snark, but it if makes you feel better, snark on.

Ugly? English is my first language. I don’t get the ugliness of this. Please don’t tell me to flip it around, because then we’d have to have a conversation about race, power, and America.