Yesterday, while we lamented the SCOTUS decision to exempt Hobby Lobby and other Corporations-cum-People from paying for Lessina birth control because it violates their religious freedom, I learned that 30 Black women released a signed letter offering their support for the President’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative. This letter from women like former Atlanta mayor […]
Tag: black men
On Black Men Showing Up for Black Women at the Scene of the Crime
Two nights ago I showed up to the Brecht Forum in Brooklyn ready to have a conversation about what we mean when we say “ally, privilege, and comrade.” I showed up to have that discussion after months of battle testing around these issues in my own crew. Over these months I’ve learned that it is […]
On ‘The Mean Girls of Morehouse’
Having gone to Morehouse’s (unofficial) sister school I feel compelled to comment on this Vibe Mean Girls article and subsequent fallout. In fact it feels kind of good to once again put this “audacity of parenting” thing on the back burner. Y’all ain’t ready 🙂 If you haven’t heard, Vibe acknowledged the fact that there […]
On Oscar Grant (and that other Black dude on TV last night)
I watched the verdict last night. Not on any TV news station because NONE of the major networks had any coverage of the rage and pain of the people in Oakland and LA last night. Tweeting with folks across time zones and continents, we tried to hold Oscar Grant’s memory. As my Twitter Timeline filled […]
Musing on Black Women Writing
My post Black Women x The Streets x Harassment has 114 comments on Racialicious. I don’t think I have ever written something that has received such a massive response. The comments are illuminating because they demonstrate the ways in which people may or may not see how racial sexism is at play when Black men […]
ACT like you got some sense, and THINK for yourself!
I wish Steve Harvey would go sit down somewhere and smoke a pipe, because all he’s doing is blowing hot air. And Black women are lining up in droves for a turn on the hot air balloon. Just two nights ago a young undergraduate student asked in a panel on racial stereotypes, “Why can’t Black […]