Well their first choice was to call it Burn a Cross on dem Negros Lawn Day, but they couldn’t reach an overtime cap limit agreement with the Firefighters union.

Found him!

Great point about Black Pastors! I’ve long said the almost exclusively Black Male Pastors love to admonish Black women about their failures to ‘submit and respect’ men as “head of the family” yet I’ve never seen the direct outreach to the Men - the thugs, players and married dogs about THEIR failures to PROVIDE for and…

I genuinely don’t get the appeal. I like a portabella burger. Tofu is fine in some circumstances. But I don’t like them masquerading as something they’re not. If you don’t like meat why do you want something that bleeds like and looks like meat. To fit in? I just don’t understand.

Wait a sec, how does one delete a Tweet as a president when every tweet is legally bound as the official word of a president?

Not one shout out to the Mothership? Huh. I guess we just forgot the King of Interplanetary Funk. Ain’t right.

It’s a mixture of things. Reading Black Twitter and message boards, some (a lot) are literally trash. I also think I lot of younger people not familiar with his songs, so they may stream him just to see what the fuss was all about. Some may be listening to the lyrics to see the warning signs.

Am I the only person that is thinking of Insecure’s Due North while reading this article?

This play can’t be both lauded in mainstream publications like the New York Times and deemed transgressive. Pick one.

set on a Virginia plantation—but with the power dynamics turned on its head.

“Black people can make stupid things too,” is what we’re supposed to take from this I guess?

Harris, a 6-feet, 5-inch, Afro-clad, fashion forward, 29-year old Martinsville, Va. native, admitted he never factored in such backlash from his own community when developing Slave Play.

Wowzers. Coming for August Wilson?  Is that necessary? I was lucky enough to meet him after a performance of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom when I was in my early teens in the early 90s. He was very sweet and very quiet in such a way that I’ve felt protective of him ever since. I’ll just be over here hmph-ing.

Or Velvet Jones

I suspect he’s been living on a piece of the funds and hoping it would pick up steam and get to the finish line quicker than 4 years.— I suspect he’s living on ALL those funds. There was no finish line, just his bottom line.

“This nigga won’t even show receipts.”

don’t be mistaken, they KNOW the point Tiffany was trying to make. Thing is PETA does not care, full stop. If you really dig below the surface, the protests, the ads, the shiny bullshit they peddle to the celebs, PETA is dangerous, funds eco terrorists like ALF and gives exactly ZERO shit about humans. Truth is if…

Look here my mans I don’t knock this man’s formula it worked for Trump University and it can work for the Frederick Douglas Marcus Garvey Leadership Academy for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Want to Do Other Stuff Good Too.

So you’re advocating for a blatant con-artist to receive state funding and willing to overlook his views on sex/gender/orientation/class/religion/race even though they will be core tenets of the institution?

‘I want her fired!’