Left house with known drug activity. Found with no drugs after being detained, handcuffed, and questioned. It’s not illegal to visit a house that is under surveillance for drugs. Just like it’s not illegal to wait outside of a carry out for your food, to sit on your steps, or even to stand on a corner - though that…

This! I have a friend who has fibromyalgia and narcolepsy and looks ‘fine’ but has days when she can barely walk because the pain is so bad. She’s in the process of trying to apply for federal disability benefits and she says that the hardest thing has been trying to explain that she’s sick even though she doesn’t…

I love peroxide for stains like blood and for some foods. I keep a little spray bottle of the plain old, dollar store hydrogen peroxide in my purse. I spray and blot as soon as I can. I’ve also used clear hand sanitizer to get out ink stains. Nothing scented, just straight up hand sanitizer like Purell. I used to keep…

I love peroxide for stains like blood and for some foods. I keep a little spray bottle of the plain old, dollar…

It depends on the nature of the disability. Some people with cognitive disabilities are really good at concrete things like knowing that a baby is crying and that they should feed it. Those same people might be terrible at more abstract things like understanding that feeding your McDonalds isn’t good for them because…

Or people may not be attractive but who look put together/professional/appropriate. It’s hard to get some people to understand that it’s possible for someone to be clean, neatly dressed, and perfectly appropriate but to still lack the capacity to fully understand consequences or to have significant lapses in terms of…

You cannot fight a war against an entire religion unless you’re willing to completely stomp out that religion as in kill or convert all believers. Are you willing to do or support that? Seems like that’s the perfect ISIS mindset right there.

Dude, your whole comment is your opinion of 2pac and your opinion of what’s wrong with what the OP stated. The fact that you didn’t use the words ‘genius’ or ‘revolutionary’ does not negate the substance of the first part your response. The same with whether or not you assert that black people all think alike: the…

Unfortunately I think the whole ‘thug life’ thing took him over and that eclipsed the much more nuanced and thoughtful side. Or, rather, the thug life side became the side that made money and, like you said, he fell prey to that easy money (and the side benefits). Unfortunately I think that a lot of the young black…

No what you said is that if someone doesn’t share your level of admiration of 2pac, then they essentially don’t know anything about black youth culture or the black community. As if there’s some sort of hive mind on how we should feel about a particular person or some right or wrong way for black people to view…

I didn’t realize that it was mandatory for all black people to consider 2Pac some kind of musical genius or revolutionary.

Not to mention some of the unexpected physical demands of the job. RNs do more than give medications and document in charts. Many of the RNs and other health care workers I’ve worked with have a slew of back, knee, and shoulder injuries that come from physically assisting patients and walking/standing for long hours.…

I know! So much polyester goodness. Actually I’ll take all kinds of wide collars, flares, and synthetic, flammable fabrics over sagged pants, beaters, and shitty tattoos

It’s good to know that Ebony and Jet will still be around in some form. I think that it’s easy to forget just how important those magazines have been for black people in America. Looking back through the archives and looking at the photos it’s amazing to see just how things have changes - and how something,…

I know people can’t always choose where they or their family work and may sincerely want to pursue opportunities in these countries. It’s just that there seem to be far more cons than pros.

Sharia law is a perfect example of why the joining of religion and government is so dangerous.

I don’t get it. What’s the appeal of going to a country where you know you’re going to be treated as less than as a matter of course by not just some of the people but by the law itself? I don’t trust any country where religion and the government as so intertwined. That’s never been a good thing for women. And that…

Don’t feel bad for retreating. Constantly immersing yourself in trauma, even if it’s just watching tv or looking at articles online, can be really damaging. Secondary trauma is a very real thing. And it’s okay to feel hollowed out and sick. This is a sick, awful thing that shouldn’t have happened but it did. It’s okay…

Yes? I’m not even joking. I really think that this is more of an issue for some people because they feel that Trainor is a mediocre to bad singer who is now ‘singing black’ as a way to keep her mediocre career going. Even in the article, the writer points out that Amy Winehouse essentially got a pass because she was…

They didn’t invent it but were an influence. Same way that Elvis was influenced by black singers and musicians. History has a tendency to erase the contributions of black people when it comes to genres that are considered to be primarily white.

And more recently, Daley