I read Danielle McGuire’s book shortly after the state of Alabama formally apologized to Recy Taylor. It looks at 3 rape cases: Taylor’s in 1944, a Florida case from 1959 and one from North Carolina in the early 1970's, set against the larger backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement. On one side the book examines…

Former lifelong 49er fan here. I was ready to quit the NFL last year for numerous reasons but decided to stick it out and watch the Niners go 2-14 precisely because they didn’t cut Colin Kaepernick when it would’ve been easy to do so. They also didn’t punish him or any other player who chose not to stand for the…

Longtime Gap cardholder here, who prefers to shop in the stores. I’d love to buy more Gap clothing but they don’t have the basics: REAL COTTON t-shirts and underwear. Call me normcore, I don’t give a shit - just carry some shirts and underwear that aren’t cotton blended with some crappy non-breathable fabric that…

+1 truth (sob)

+1 for mom loving the HBCUs

Kings fan here. It’s the Chris Webber trade all over again, our best player gone for spare parts and draft picks that probably won’t pan out because it’s the Kings and Cousins is the best player they’ve drafted in a decade. They’re 1.5 games out of the playoffs with 25 to go and they’ve decided to quit on this…

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The last time Gloria Steinem was on Bill Maher’s show she said something that shook me to the core: women radicalize as they get older, as they realize that male power increases with age and female power diminishes. Women get angry about it and that’s where no-filter old ladies come from.