I was heartbroken that my little brother went to prison. I remembered every sweet and loving thing about him, and how smart and talented and funny he could be. I didn’t want him locked away from his loved ones, including his kids, for years and years. And given that he is a Black man who was only in his twenties at…

They could have presented “another side “ without gushing about his “character” and making meaningless statements about trusting him with their children. They could have simply stated that their experience of the co-worker and friend they’ve known for decades is different from that presented in the court proceedings,…

If only this had been the only one. But there were sequels...(shudder)

Osaka’s discomfort and social anxiety in press conferences is and has long been palpable. And at the French in particular, she’s relentlessly grilled about her clay court performance, which clearly undermines her confidence. Her job is to play and win; THAT’S how she adds value to a sport that she has helped as much…

Think how much easier adolescence would have been if we could have found other like-minded black kids when we were young and feeling like unicorns. Both my sense of self and my identity formation would have been much healthier. 

I’m with you, only North Texas version. I hate that it took me until adulthood to find other Black folks who loved the same music I did growing up; I was pretty much an army of one with mostly white friends as a teen, simply because that’s who I shared musical and artistic tastes with. I’m a die-hard Smiths girl,…

Plano is my home town.  The same place I had a wonderful phone interview for a job, but when I showed up for the in-person interview, was told to my face, “I didn’t realize you were black.  You didn’t sound black on the phone.”  So...yeah.

People like me who are dumb enough to live in New York City.

I’m mostly hate-watching at this point, and the handling of Liam’s arc is a big reason why. An honest and authentic look at Liam’s sense of displacement and search for identity in the Gallagher family would have been welcome, especially since the Gallagher’s themselves basically ignore it. But the show has screwed up…

He did first come to my attention playing a Neo-Nazi, so...

Andie MacDowell is an actress of very limited range and her looks benefited her early career tremendously. I HATED her in Four Weddings and a Funeral, she annoyed the hell out of me in Sex, Lies and Videotape, and it seemed so appropriate yet infuriating to me that she was in Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan but all…

Vik.  Short for Vikram.

I’m forgiving because I stan Russell Hornsby, and since my beloved Grimm ended I’ll take him in virtually anything. But I also think that last season Carl was Noah’s version:  Angry Black Man. This is Janelle’s; more nuanced and more human.

I completely agree. The show is excellent and the central performances, especially Nicola Walker, were sterling. I kept thinking about Series 2 long after it aired on PBS.

Especially not when you consider she beat out Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth, which is absolutely unjustifiable.

I actually have no doubt of that.  Which is kind of scary.

This is sad but true.  I love his playing and in many ways he seems to be a genuinely nice guy.  But he has some odd and unreconstructed beliefs, and he’s way too close to Goran Ivanisevic, who is more than problematic.

Is it really possible that this was posted without a reference to the bizarrely-fascinating recent episode of the Slate podcast Decoder Ring: https://slate.com/culture/2019/06/decoder-ring-explores-the-war-between-chuck-e-cheeses-and-showbiz-pizza-place-and-the-fate-of-their-animatronic-characters-including-the-king.ht…

The whole “Suffragette” mess was a prime example of that. Meryl is such a a precise amalgamation of her age, race, education and position of privilege, she could have been constructed in a lab.

I love every bit of this article, and every track on this album.  Also, Jean Baylor inspired me to start shaving my head.  She was stunning and challenged conventions just by fiercely rocking that look at a time when it was considerably less acceptable than it is now.