Love Maya Angelou, but she supported Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, so I cannot help but find her emotionalism, though genuine, still very late. If she felt so strongly about an African-American President, given her penchant for expression, that certainly should have come out in her choice, but it didn't until it…

That woman needs to be staked, garlic stuffed in her mouth, and exposed to sunlight to prevent her from rising at any point in our national political system.

We went to Harlem to await the news, and when the final word came, a scream went out across the streets, from the buildings, the entire place roared. We cried. I got text messages and emails from across Africa, from afro-latino friends in brazil, peru, venezuela, colombia, from black folks in Dubai, Iraq, Oman. Grown…

Dressing in revealing clothing does not represent liberation, particularly in places where many women have been socialized to view their worth in terms of how much attention their legs, breasts, hair, botoxed-face, etc. can attract from men. It is some deeply disturbing anti-feminist trick to convince women that the…

With a gathering of Africans (african and african-american, afro-latino), we are doing African food, with an emphasis on a few Kenyan dishes, and various (African-) American dishes. Talk will be what an Obama administration inspires us to do to reflect the change that we no longer feel fully repulsed by the American…

But are they fair, or wheat? Or darker than wheat? Because that is what really gets them those roles...

Quite often, we run into a (stupid but) well-meaning youngster who believes that turning to the internet, to the media, is a way to solve a problem. Sometimes it is, when it is truly about education and awareness raising that makes policy changes. Recently, an adorably addled brained staffer decided that her big…

@shananigans: yeah "loads" - perhaps you say that because you don't know real people who have actually done "loads" or because you really believe Jolie showed up in places like Darfur, made effective policy, saved some babies, healed some abused women, seized some weapons from the janjaweed, took out some evil folk…

@Mymoustache: absolutely true — but so many people can't tell when something is superficial — that is all they know.

@ripley: some are of African descent, and there is a relationship of being African, whether you accept it or not.

Some 'latinos' are african-descendants, just as are U.S. African-Americans.

Stories like this make me wish I was a "Firestarter" — but oh no, couldn't have that power could I?

@noasalira: note the phrasing "*one of a billion things I don't know " as in this is just one (out of) of a "billion (other) things I don't know"

No, I actually did not know that! *

@MauryPovichhatesme: Little girls who grow up being groomed centrally/primarily for the male gaze often grow up into women who 'control their own bodies' and make decisions like this reflecting how their minds were shaped as they were growing up.

unfortunately, rude people are going to take every opportunity to be rude. If they can't talk loudly on the phone, they will play their music loudly, if they don't do that, they will kick the back of your seat in time with some song in their head, and so on.

@Cry4Hemp: And let's start by them teaching (you and people like you here) not to generalize about an entire culture - nationality of people based on the 0.00002% you think you know about that culture.

@parnote: the triangle cuts down on the number of tourists, it is just another environmental protection tool.

In Bermuda, all houses have a white roof, which also serves to collect water. It is the traditional design.

@AuntieBee: Instead of "stereotypical" racial features, why not normal features? What is criticized is the demeaning way non-white people are shown, in contrast to the way white people are represented.