• Black Woman Arrested After Anti-White Rant

    In a piece at Madame Noire, Brande Victorian weighs in on the case of a black woman who was arrested in London after she went on an anti-white rant on a public bus. The woman should have kept it to herself, Victorian argues, because now she’s in legal trouble. I doubt the black woman who…

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  • So Serena's Crip Walk Is Controversial Now?

    Madame Noire‘s Brande Victorian strikes back at a black writer who compared the tennis champ’s victory dance to making an “X-rated joke inside a church.” I love how black people are wrong for expressing any kind of emotion at all, ever. You’d think Americans would be thrilled that another American — albeit an African American…

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  • Why There's No Hope for the Real Housewives of Atlanta

    Writing at Madame Noire, Brande Victorian is pessimistic about what’s in store for the Real Housewives of Atlanta. And she’s talking not about the next season of the show but about the women themselves. Looking at that headline some of you may be thinking, look who’s tardy for the party, and I can admit I…

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  • We Have to Ease Up on the 'R' Word

    Writing at MadameNoire, Brande Victorian argues that the major risk of throwing around the word “racism” so casually is that when there is an actual incident of racism, we won’t be taken seriously. Scrolling the MSN homepage this weekend, I came across a teaser that read something like “racist BK ad pulled.” I stopped and…

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