Thank you for saving me the time to type that.... I didn’t mean to slow down the discussion but people will read that the statement means “not actual rape”...

let me fix this for you: “three women are accusing Weinstein of penetrative rape.”...

My niece recently had a school assignment to create a family tree. My sister asked me to help her and I had the sad task to explain that, for most black people, slaves were neither legally allowed to be taught to read or write or allowed to be legally wed until after the Civil War so there are no records from family…

It is one of those life conveniences... I use IFFT and my lights in certain rooms go on when it gets dark, shifts color in the evening to help my sleep, has various modes for watching a movie, flashes when I use a timer, and I have a HueGo which lasted through a power failure..

It is one of those life conveniences... I use IFFT and my lights in certain rooms go on when it gets dark, shifts…

I should mention if you are curious, start with Maxwell’s cover of “This Woman’s Work”, the Herbie Hancock cover with John Legend and Pink of “Don’t Give Up”, Natalie Cole’s cover of “The Man with the Child in His Eyes”, then try the two Prince/Kate Bush duets (I’m only a fan of one of them). There are some secondary…

I have mentioned it before but my niece met Zendaya at a music event when my niece was a child and Zendaya was roughly my niece’s current age. Wendy couldn’t have been sweeter and my niece still laughs when she is told she asked Zendaya for her email address and left her sputtering to find a polite way to say no.

Having just made mushroom risotto with Hen of the Woods and shiitake mushrooms in my Instant Pot, I’m going with Instant Pot.

Having just made mushroom risotto with Hen of the Woods and shiitake mushrooms in my Instant Pot, I’m going with…

There is also a treatment in Europe which involves uv cross linking the cornea which seems to work much better than surgery (no need for the enzymes that support the cornea and prevent keratoconus, one time treatment, seems permanent) that is also undergoing FDA approval. My sister was treated and it works well. http:/…

I was expecting someone to mention Naomi Campbell’s BabyWoman...

Technically, we as Americans have: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

This is quite bittersweet; I have a close family member who was part of the first 25 employees of both JetBlue and Virgin America (JetBlue was nearly Virgin America but Branson wasn’t allowed to have the size stake he wanted) and hired most of their early employees. When i saw in the news that they were ranked one and…

Having had relatives who passed through the harrowing periods of segregation, they would argue that some things have changed (no segregated movie theaters, black president) but other things haven’t (police being often as much as threat as a help, economics that have black people and poor people conflated). It helps if…

I feel this tremendous urge for you to search the web for images for the song “Strange Fruit” sung by Billy Holliday or to search the terms “black” and “lynching”... or maybe look up Emmett Till?

Sorry, i had to step away for a family matter... I did some research and found the opposite of what you wrote: there is a site called lookatthestars.org which documents how much and to what charities celebrities give time and money to. Patricia Arquette ranked relatively low compared to a random black counterpart such…

I’m not sure anyone was asking for footnotes about Susan B. Anthony or to preface with an apology; I think it is more think carefully before you ask a group i.e... black men and women to repay some debt of support when one hasn’t really historically been much of an ally.... Hopefully, the spectacle of The Donald has…

I think for me it seemed like she was a) very tired and didn’t get time to organize her thoughts but it would have been nice if she had clarified that that both black men and women uniformly get paid less than white women and that white women were historically not the strongest of allies especially in terms of black…

The problem is that if you have characters in a movie, the default is to make them white because black people can only play roles that are designed to be obviously black... and the “best” people are those who reinforce those rules. Can you imagine Gravity with Viola Davis rather than Sandra Bullock; that would be like…

Google Lena Horne, Bo Derek... is there a critical number of people commenting on this that would pass your threshold of public opinion?

Google Zendaya...

The analogy I would make is that it is a design concept like those automakers who make concept cars or architects who make models and sketches of buildings that they have no formal commission for. Often some element like the fabric pattern might filter down into a more conventional line but its point is to spark…