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Open Letter to Taylor Townsend: You Must Win
Huffington Post blogger Kelly Smith Beaty tells the tennis champ, who’s been criticized for her weight, “You really can be whatever you want to be.” The premise of the double standard is simply that in order for you to be successful, you’ve got to be twice as good as THEM. It means that YOU —…
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Will the Real Black People of ATL Step Up?
In a piece for the Huffington Post, Kelly Smith Beaty asks how a city that was once the crowning jewel of black America has allowed itself to be positioned by television as the melting pot of black affliction. I, like many of you, watched in complete horror as a cable network debuted yet another reality…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
