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  • #ThxBirthControl, Because Making Love Is Awesome. Making Babies?…Maybe Later

    Sex! Who doesn’t like it? Disaffected TV housewife stereotypes with diminishing libidos? The castrati? Everyone else though? Everyone else is pretty into it. Way into it. Maybe “a little too into” considering Kim Kardashian’s entire career trajectory. But would we and our raging hormones, really have it any other way? This is why birth control…

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  • Bill Cosby: Comedian, Philanthropist, but Rape Allegations Won’t Go Away

    On Monday, Bill Cosby’s website released the Cosby meme generator (now removed), an image macro that was supposed to let people create memes of the famed comedian from his Cosby Show days. But Cosby’s meme generator turned into an unfiltered vehicle to denounce the comedian over the numerous allegations of sexual assault that have plagued him…

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  • The 5 Worst States for Black People

    Progress, the story of black America. We started from the most bottom of bottoms (not having personhood) and worked our way up to the age of Obama, where we are leaps and bounds better than we were (hey, we have personhood now!) but are still struggling to make it to the middle, let alone to…

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  • It’s No Surprise—Study Shows Why Nonvoters Are the Voters Who Need to Vote the Most

    When I was growing up in the Midwest, my father worked for one of the largest defense contractors in the United States. And he was exactly the type of voter sought after by politicians. Why? He worked for the largest employer in the state, he was part of the middle class, he was a married…

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  • Carmen de Lavallade Still Captivates Onstage at 83

    Carmen de Lavallade calls herself a woman of her time. During her one-woman stage show, As I Remember It, the 83-year-old star dancer of stage and screen recounts growing up during the Great Depression and being raised by her father after her mother died in a sanatorium. She remembers listening to programs on the radio and…

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  • Why VH1 Gets to Be Black Without the Burden

    When I first saw an advertisement for the made-for-TV sequel to the 2002 film Drumline, I assumed that it was airing on BET. After all, Drumline’s star and one of the executive producers of the sequel, Nick Cannon, has a relationship with BET and is a regular on Kevin Hart’s Real Husbands of Hollywood. Yet around…

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  • This Isn’t New—Venus and Serena Have Endured Nasty Insults Throughout Their Careers

    Over the weekend, Russian tennis chief Shamil Tarpischev apologized for calling Venus and Serena Williams “the Williams brothers”—the least-funny insult in what for the Williamses has been a career filled with unfunny, sexist and racist insults for the sisterly titans of professional women’s tennis. Ever since they stepped onto the court in the mid-1990s, the Williams…

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  • ‘Captain Save-a-Bro’: Women, Stop Trying to Save Wayward Men

    Real Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks recently told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that all the rumors were true: She was planning to divorce her now-convict hubby, Apollo Nida. But there was no surprise. Parks skipped out on Nida’s sentencing hearing in July. It was obvious for anyone to see that the marriage wouldn’t…

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  • Not-So-Great Expectations: Teachers Expect Less of Black and Brown Students

    A recent study by the Center for American Progress released this month highlighted what some might call the “soft bigotry of low expectations” if there was a way to take a jug of Downy fabric softener and make old-fashioned implicit bias gentler. The study found that teachers can have a bit of a Pygmalion effect…

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  • How to Get Away With Dressing to Kill

    Last week 12 million tuned in for TV producer Shonda Rhimes’ new addictive hit, How to Get Away With Murder, starring Viola Davis. Some of those viewers were immersed in the whodunit drama and murderous legal clientele; some were just in it for the clothes: For good … https://twitter.com/andreanaclay/status/517903029811425280https://twitter.com/mstraciemorris/status/518180364381339650 And for bad … https://twitter.com/mellyville/status/518145713650552832https://twitter.com/remylekun/status/518075579791208448 But we…

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