Welp. It looks like Scandal’s winter hiatus might have lasted longer than Olivia and Fitz’s disastrous attempt to finally give their relationship a legitimate chance. In case you forgot, the first half of season 5 of Scandal brought us a quickie divorce, a wack proposal, a canceled wedding, an abortion and a bunch of moving boxes. Here’s a quick refresher…

In 2015, black Twitter continued to slay with brilliance like #AskRachel and #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies, President Obama ran out of damns and started checking folks who “wanna pop off,” and Black Lives Matter cemented itself as an enduring force with which to be reckoned. Indeed, 2015 has been punctuated with black people being bold, brave and brilliant at…

Last month, power TV showrunner Shonda Rhimes released her first book, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person, in which she reveals how a stray observation said to her by her older sister during the Thanksgiving of 2013—“You never say yes to anything”—challenged her to…

Every Thanksgiving, families across America gather for the annual tradition of overeating, wading into futile political debates and resurrecting and rehashing yesteryear’s drama. While traditions may vary from home to home, some Thanksgiving Day struggles are universal.  Here are 43 thoughts you may be able to relate to this Thanksgiving: 1. Dang. It’s only 6:31…

I’m from the South, where it’s considered an abomination to show up to someone else’s home empty-handed—no matter how small the occasion. Southern folks will bring a pie when they stop by your house to borrow a cup of sugar. Given the time, money and effort that people invest in hosting Thanksgiving dinner, it is a…

This week’s episode of Scandal brought us the end of Olitz, the beginning of Mellie as a national hero and a fresh start for Papa Pope.  Olitz-erated It’s Christmastime at the White House, and Olivia Pope is wearing holiday red (as opposed to her usual muted tones), hosting White House tours and encouraging America to eat healthily.…

This week’s episode of Scandal set us up for next week’s big winter finale. At the beginning of the episode, Olivia Pope has yet to tell her boyfriend, President Fitz Grant, that she worked with his ex-wife, Mellie, to have her father, Rowan, released from prison in exchange for Rowan stopping the Senate’s impeachment investigation of Fitz’s…

On this week’s episode of Scandal, strange alliances were formed, new enemies were made and Olivia Pope officially became the show’s villain.   President Pope: Thanks to Olivia, who got her father, Rowan, released from prison in exchange for his blackmailing the members of the congressional impeachment committee, the impeachment investigations are over, Fitz Grant’s presidency…

The trope of the black character dying—often first and sometimes even before the opening credits of a horror movie—is so well-known that discussing (and parodying) this trope has become a trope. There is, however, a long history of horror movies featuring black characters as villains and vampires that not only live until the end (or…

This week’s episode kicked off with Sen. Mellie Grant getting caught lying under oath about how long she’s known about her husband’s affair with Olivia Pope. Then Chandra Wilson (Dr. Miranda Bailey on Grey’s Anatomy), who directed the episode, released the emergency brake and let the car careen down the side of the mountain. Here are 29 times…