Personally, I don't find those two things comparable (starving children in Africa rhetoric vs. expressing frustration over large scale coverage of two specific events that happened within a day of one another). This is obviously hitting a specific nerve with you, so be it, and obviously I can't judge the validity of…

I keep seeing some people saying this, and I have to wonder who these magical "one-upping tragedy" people are. Literally no one who I have seen point out their sadness for the Beirut bombings the day before was trying to one-up or make others feel shitty for changing a profile picture in solidarity with Paris. The…

I love Kerry Washington, but I think most would agree that Viola is by far the stronger actress.

I had an employee who I hired some time ago ask me this the other day in sincerity. I just asked the person if they minded stopping by my office to touch base. The issue was a small one and quickly resolved. I was so taken aback by an adult—one that I have only a working relationship with—asking me this that it took…

All these years later and I'm still irritated about the time my roommate convinced me to go to a Kitty Pryde concert with her. It was uncomfortable and weird. The throng of white people shrieking "swag" at the stage and booing when she was complaining about "ruining the rap game" was a surreal experience.

Please. Beyonce draggin Ali Larter across the floor will NEVER stop being funny to me. Anyway, I'll probably end up seeing this at some point. When you constantly have a dearth of films (particularly mainstream ones) helmed by black people, sometimes you see the shitty ones just to try and prove to studios that…

I know this shouldn't surprise me, but I'm always amazed to encounter other people from SC. I don't live there anymore but I was born there and stayed for 21 years.

Absolutely. As much as I love and grew up on 90s R&B, I love the way it's mutating and crossing genres right now. I'd add Raury to your list. I seriously need that kid to drop a full album.

HEY HEY HEY! Don't you besmirch the good name of AfroPunk with white nonsense. No matter how many white hipsters show up at the festivals every year, Afropunk and the larger culture around it ain't about them. Though I can absolutely see the existence of something as ridiculous and misguided as an all-white…

How the flying fuck do a make a film about a sizable underrepresented minority—seeking to bring attention to a historical and crucial event that affects said population—and revise history so that the protagonist and catalyst for the action is…another white dude. Seriously, fuck that Stonewall movie.

I'm very much looking forward to this. Growing up in a predominately white school in the South, the prevailing narrative bandied about in my classes was "The Black Panthers were just as bad as the KKK." I relayed this to my mother, who immediately said that was a bunch of bullshit.

If you're around his age, it's actually humorously easy to find large pockets of people who like him in SC. Also teenagers, so many teenagers.

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Well the film itself may gloss over the misogyny, but the production made sure to continue the narrative of "shades of desirable blackness" in their casting calls for actresses. It's too bad, but after reading that call, I have zero desire to ever see this thing.

Not much to add other than to echo how much I adored that scene. It actually feels as though it comes at the perfect point in the series. We've gone beyond being acquainted with these characters to beginning to catch glimpses into the trauma they've faced in their pasts (or in some character's cases, are currently…

I cannot tell you how much of my life I spent on After Ellen as a teen. Good lord, I haven't read that site in years.

Two years later and this shit still makes me burst out laughing.

Ding Ding Ding! That's exactly it. I watched this garbage for far, far too long because it felt like the right "good little queer girl" thing to do, but after a while it seemed as though the writing team was just throwing shit against the wall to see how much they could punish the audience and retain their ratings.

Huge YES to "Human Nature" which is probably my favorite Jackson song and one that I feel never gets the attention it deserves.

I'm surprised this struck you as a ploy for cheap laughs. Regardless of my feelings concerning the way this played out and/or was introduced, nothing about this hit as funny to me, and I would go as far as to say I don't think the show was aiming for it to be cheaply funny either. I can understand your feeling about…