Crunk Feminist Collective blogger Brittney Cooper questions the newfound role of Jay-Z and Beyoncé — the first family of hip-hop — as the ultimate depiction of the American family, right alongside the Obamas. She also addresses Jay-Z and the b-word — and the newly crowned Beyoncé horsefly. The birth of baby girl Blue Ivy Carter…

Crunk Feminist Collective blogger Brittney Cooper examines the now iconic face-off between President Barack Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in five parts. Like most people, she maintains that it was disrespectful and that white privilege conditions white people not to see white rage. 1.) He is the President. She is being disrespectful. As hell. Period.…

A recent Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation study showed that black women are happy despite being statistically heavier than other women, but Crunk Feminist Collective writer Brittney Cooper declares that if she wants to date, maybe it’s time for a change in her waistline.I know there is this myth in Black America that brothers like their…

While some critics mocked the performance of Trayvon Martin’s 19-year-old friend Rachel Jeantel, who appeared as a witness during George Zimmerman’s trial this week, Brittney Cooper argues at Salon that the criticism is a perfect example of the cultural stumbling blocks navigated daily by some blacks. [George Zimmerman’s] trial might be intriguing, fascinating cultural theater to…

Brittney Cooper tackles racism, weightism and stereotypes in a gut-wrenching blog post at Salon. During a flight home over the holiday, the woman seated next to her was still texting — rapidly — after the call had gone out to turn off cellphones. Cooper glanced over and caught the last few words of the text: “On the…

Responding to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll that found that 40 percent of white people and 25 percent of nonwhites have no friends of another race, Brittney Cooper writes at Salon that it cuts both ways. “All of my close friends are black,” she says, explaining that maintaining white friendships is too much of a struggle.…

At Salon, Brittney Cooper urges the media and the black community to end unrelenting attacks on black women, following the uproar surrounding the now-pulled “Harriet Tubman Sex Tape” video on Russell Simmons’ YouTube network. “With a scarily consistent frequency,” she writes, “black women’s political histories and needs are not only minimized but utterly discounted in…

Arguing at Salon that public education has always been a pathway to the middle class for people of color, Brittney Cooper chides Republican lawmakers for creating barriers to success for minorities by defunding urban school systems at every level across the nation. “Unfortunately, the increasing national disdain for all things ‘public’ is increasingly becoming a…