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The Day SheaMoisture Got Extra Ashy, Explained
SheaMoisture is a beauty brand whose hair and skin products are very popular with black women. Even if you’d never heard of SheaMoisture until yesterday, if you date or even know (or, shit, just happen to see) black women with natural hair, you’ve undoubtedly encountered SheaMoisture in some fashion at some point. Exclusively? No. Not…
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How Mad Should I Be When White People Greet And Talk To My Dog When I'm Walking Him Instead Of Me?
Mickey, the 13-year-old Pit Bull/Labrador mix that lives with us and totally, absolutely, definitely never helped me solicit prostitutes, has had a difficult time adjusting to the presence of the Feminist Octopus. His behavior hasn’t changed much; he’s still the laconic, (usually) well-behaved, and personable dog who I still kinda think is a dude in a…
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Bill O'Reilly's Career Is Proof That A Broken Clock Is Always Right If Its White
Bill O’Reilly, a racist and rapey vat of lukewarm hot dog water fused into chicken feed and repurposed as embalming fluid for Antonin Scalia’s corpse, is out at Fox News, after apparently the “rapey” part of the whole “racist and rapey vat of lukewarm hot dog water fused into chicken feed and repurposed as embalming…
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I Can't Wait Until 16 Years From Now When Serena Williams's Baby Beats Maria Sharapova Too
If you think it’s totally fucked up that Serena Williams would announce her pregnancy on the same day Maria Sharapova — the woman who still somehow out earns Serena in endorsements despite losing to her 18 consecutive times and getting exposed as a drug cheat — turned 30 (and, for the record, it totally, definitely, absolutely…
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I Didn't Know I Needed "Don Cheadle Rapping" In My Life Until Kendrick Lamar's "DNA" Video And Now I Know That I Do
Other relatively recent additions to the list of “Things I Didn’t Know I Needed Until I Had Or Experienced Them And Now I Can’t Live Without Them.” Feta cheese Guacamole The crab fried rice from Nicky’s Thai on Western Avenue in Pittsburgh A car with a shitload of unnecessary and obnoxious horsepower Simply Lemonade with…
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Sometimes a Bitch-Ass N–ga Is Just a Bitch-Ass N–ga
Considering the considerable stigmas still attached to mental health—how we talk about it, how we treat it, how we regard people who have mental-health issues—our collective tendency to shoehorn some sort of untreated psychological disorder into the profiles of people who’ve committed especially heinous crimes is (somewhat) understandable. It allows us to finally have the…
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Five Reasons Why, If You're In The Pittsburgh Area, You Need To Attend "The Weekend Brunch Party" This Saturday
1. Because I’m one of the hosts, and I want to see y’all niggas. And I want to recoup the money I put up to rent the space. 2. Because this party — which is actually a day party with food, not a brunch — is a collaboration between several Black organizations in the city,…
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Father Of All Fuckshit Drops Mother Of All Bombs In The General Vicinity Of ISIS Or Something Because He Likes To Hear Things Go "Bang!"
Do the people who voted for and still support Donald Trump — a man who, to his credit, seems to be doing exactly what he said he was going to do during his campaign — realize that if Trump’s actions do lead to a world war, they’ll be dead and shit too? That while Whiteness…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 32. Adding "Trap" To Regular-Ass Things They Were Already Doing
Although Black skin and student loans they’ll never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever pay off ensure that Bougie Black People are, in fact, authentically Black, sometimes BBP get self-conscious about how Black they’re seen by other people. While they don’t doubt their own Blackness, they’re aware that the perception of racial authenticity is arbitrary, and…
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Sean Spicer Is What Happens When You Give Mediocre White Men Microphones
Currently, my 16-month-old daughter’s single favorite thing to do is watch Elmo’s World. And say Elmo in anticipation whatever I crack open my laptop or turn on a TV. And pick up my phone, place it to her ear, and try to call Elmo on it. Her second favorite thing to do is to grab things…
