We should stop dissing rappers’ girlfriends for having a past, writes Evette Dionne at Clutch magazine. She says that we need to look beyond the checkered histories of women like Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose — because they’ve found love. The shaming of Amber Rose for dating and falling in love and marrying when her…

Pointing out that Rachel Jeantel lost her friend Trayvon Martin, who was one of the few people who showed her love and support, Clutch magazine’s Evette Dionne reprimands critics for attacking the teen’s testimony during George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial. The media and intraracial respectability-nazis have crucified Rachel Jeantel for daring to exist outside of the…

Writing at Clutch magazine, Evette Dionne points out that the actress is standing in solidarity with her “unfairly criticized” peer Beyoncé against her body-shaming critics. Racist feminists are again critiquing Beyonce Knowles-Carter. Their latest argument is the 31-year-old’s wardrobe choices were inappropriate for the “Chime for Change,” a concert designed to raise funds to combat…

Christians should stop wielding religion as a tool of oppression, write Evette Dionne at Clutch magazine. “The Fighting Temptations” is one of the funniest, tongue-in-cheek depictions of the Pentecostal Baptist church … Though Paulina is a caricature, my then 14-year-old brain couldn’t comprehend how any Christian could be so devious and conniving. Paulina was the…

In a piece at Clutch magazine, Evette Dionne takes Zoe Saldana to task for saying, “There’s no such thing as people of color,” and suggests that she enroll in a Critical Race Theory class. Actress Zoe Saldana has been inserting the proverbial foot in her mouth in recent weeks. The “Colombiana” starlet has been media…

Clutch magazine‘s Evette Dionne traces the origins of the #BlackGirlsAreFromTheFuture hashtag and explains why it has caught on as a digital movement. The hashtag garnered steam on Twitter and has since connected with black women on Tumblr and Facebook. The rapid growth of #BlackGirlsAreFromTheFuture is not coincidental because it easily connects to women within our…

Clutch magazine‘s Evette Dionne wonders whether the “Big Three” networks will take the show as a lesson about putting some color in prime-time lineups. The Big Three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have notoriously blacklisted brown faces from their primetime lineups. Before Kerry Washington landed the lead role in “Scandal,” an African-American woman hadn’t starred in…

Reflecting on criticism of the provocative social commentator Touré, Clutch magazine‘s Evette Dionne worries about what she says is the constant characterization of some of us as “black enough,” while others are relegated to the outskirts. One of those commentators is Touré, a hip-hop fanatic who rose to prominence in the Village Voice-dominated 1990s. He…