Frida, thank you for this piece. I’d never heard of Maynard or her work before, but after reading this I will probably seek some of it out—she’s a very interesting and complicated person, it would seem, with a lot of nuance to her life as it wafts between extremes, both good (I appreciate her gumption in writing about…

Ummmmm, either you’re too young , or trolling, but Fresh and Word Up were The Vibe and Complex magazines during the

People take all kinds of things forced on them and make it their own. And it’s not just black people; how do people think Europe became Christianized? And it’s not just Christianity, which is why I always laugh at the Nation of Islam folks who see African American Christians as less-than or somehow put upon by…

This is the problem with GoFundMe. It is a really shitty way to care for people, it is a complete crapshoot if your page will get attention and if it does, and you get a crazy amount of money, there’s no guidance on how it should be spent. Our society would be massively better off with Universal Basic Income,…

Come on now. This is very well thought out. It solves two problems for them all at the same time. Black folks are supposed to be lazy, shiftless and stupid so how could they even possibly have enough smarts and gumption to take on the task of trying to domineer white people? In other words, blacks can’t possibly know…

Whitlock is always angry because he jumps on the gravy train only to find it’s just a metaphor and there’s not actual gravy

Probably the best thing I’ve seen all week:

I remember seeing that years ago! I feel some kind of way when I hear commentators/players who were terrible to them back in the day trying to backtrack now. Richard Williams did what he had to do and I’ve always respected him for that.

are you telling me that black teenage boys never try to put a bag over their heads when they’re masturbating? Whoa.

These claims almost always turn out to be some form of projection, so now I’m nervously wondering what the Chinese did manage to hack that Trump wants to conceal.

Aretha Franklin was notorious for being a controlling perfectionist.

And the larger issue—does this work in reverse? Will Baltimore PD give the black youths the respect they deserve before firing at them or taking them for a “rough ride” ala Freddie Gray?

“The experience is supposed to build trust among the students, many of whom don’t trust the police, or many adults in general, and law enforcement.”

As a woman in a predominantly and historically male field, I get it. Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones will always have respect before they enter the room. A black woman will have to earn that respect again and again and again.

Imagine living a life where Bobby Brown thinks you’re a piece of shit, and he’s right. 

I felt this article deep in my bones. I’m 35, have a master’s degree, and have a pretty decent resume. I do social justice education, and the work is incredibly satisfying (and at times infuriating, but I knew what I was getting into), but the money just isn’t there. I’m working on getting a side-hustle because I have…

So are the butts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Articles like this give me hope, in that it seems like we spend so much fucking energy on Racism 101, that we can never really get into Racism 203: Colorism and Racism 501: Provisional Privilege and Proximity to Whiteness, which is what this is. And the fact that we are inching to the conversations as a people and a…

I’ve been an ass. I’ve been rude. I’ve NEVER in 40 years hurled a fucking racial slur at someone in the heat of the moment. I understand why you don’t get it, so I’d appreciate it if you’d stop trying to justify your racism and bigotry to me.

I was upset about another issue...so I repeatedly called someone a nigger? Sure, that makes sense.