Glad to know that I was ahead of the game - I’ve been unintentionally boycotting awards shows for years. Honestly, as much as I think it’s important to call out the Oscars on snubbing non-white actors, writers, etc...I think this is a reminder of why minority communities still have to have ways to recognize and…

Shockingly, several. BET, Image Awards, GLAAD Awards, Asian Excellence Awards - all of these things exist because, traditionally, minority groups were informally locked out of the running for mainstream awards however white, straight people can and have been nominated. And some have even won. It’s amazing how, even…

This is so true and it’s important to call it out when we see it. Unfortunately I think a lot of people think that being progressive/liberal/leftist means that you can’t be racist

I thought the point was that Nancy Drew is a teen girl detective. Making her a 30 year old cop makes no sense. A non-white girl detective would be great. Now it just sounds like a boring cop show.

Wow. Thanks for sharing your story. It’s both amazing and painful to learn more about our histories.

I still can’t get over it. I have a copy over my desk at work. I look at it everyday to remind myself how far my family has come and how hard I have to work to make my ancestors proud.

My mother found my great-great grandfather’s freedom paper in my grandmother’s things after she passed away. She gave it to me this year and asked me to get it framed. It’s just a small piece of very yellowed paper with a faded seal. On it is my great-great grandfather’s description as a ‘certain negro man named…

It’s unsettling but I think the sad reality is that, for a lot of people, it really is just one more dead black body. It’s just another way of de-humanizing us. I’m disappointed that Jezebel/Gawker would follow along with that mindset even inadvertently

Sadly this is true. MOC first cause they’re always doing something, right? Then weird, loner-looking dudes because they’re always the ones that snap. Regular white dudes wouldn’t have to worry too because they never hurt anybody. Unless they’re obviously poor and mentally ill. I’m convinced that, in some places, a…

I’m sorry to hear about your friend. That’s the really scary thing about this. Crazy ex’s don’t care. Anyone in the orbit of their target is a potential victim. That’s also a tactic a lot of abusers use to make their victims stay - break up with me and I’ll kill your family/friends/pets.

You might be surprised what people get up to when they’re hyped on power, anger, and adrenaline.

But then we’d just be wasting time with men who ‘fit the description’ as opposed to men who might actually be up to some shit. Cops would spend all of their time stopping and frisking dude bros or fedora-wearing ‘nice guys’.

How many women end up murdered after they’re raped? Or end up being murdered because they fight back? I guess that depends on the goal of the perpetrator. A person who sets out to kill someone may not be interested in rape though they may enjoy the extra pain and humiliation they can cause by raping and then murdering…

That’s the case for most murders though so that’s not really surprising. People tend to kill family members/friends more than they kill strangers. Men kill more frequently and the majority of their victims tend to be other men. However, when women are the victims, men are more likely to be the killers. When wives are…

I think showing the differences between the haves and the have nots in this situation strikes an emotional chord. You have people wealthy enough to afford a million dollar apartment and all of the perks living in the same building with people so little that they’re eligible for housing assistance. It’s a fairly stark…

Crime victim statistics 2014

Usually by other men. I’d be curious to know how many men are killed by a former or current partner of a woman they’re involved with. I think the main point is that, while men are more likely to be the victims of murder, women are more likely to be killed by a man that they are or have been intimately involved with…

But the city is giving them tax breaks to at least make sure the poors have basic shit like lights and a working intercom/buzzer on the ‘poor door’. That was part of the agreement. I don’t think anyone is realistically advocating for the affordable apartments to have all of the bells and whistles that the luxury units…

I don’t get that mindset. It’s not like kids exist in some kind of bubble. They’re exposed to sexual (mis)information on a regular basis on top of what’s going on with their physical and mental development. Middle school kids need to know how to put on condoms because they’re at the age when they can become Axe/Bath…

I knew it was Australian but I watch it on my local PBS station which runs it in their UK mystery block so I tend to lump it in. I love the look of the show and watching Ms. Fisher be fabulous and unconventional. I don’t notice the costume and setting delays as much with ms. Fisher as I did with Mr. and Mrs. Murder…