Writing at Clutch magazine, Kirsten West Savali rebuts the position of The Root’s political correspondent, Keli Goff, on controversial billboards stigmatizing young mothers. In an op-ed for The Root, titled “Why Liberals Are Wrong On Teen Pregnancy,” political correspondent and author, Keli Goff, wrote that the criticism surrounding the campaign was “ridiculous,” “lunacy,” “well-intentioned but misguided.” According to…

Clutch magazine‘s Kirsten West Savali questions the conventional wisdom that women need a reason to be unfaithful, while men only need an opportunity. In this patriarchal society, the mistakes that young men make primarily center around them stumbling towards manhood — what it is and how to get there. They are taught that women are…

Clutch magazine‘s Kirsten West Savali recalls Malcolm X’s slavery-inspired assessment of African Americans in her call for civil debate about pop-culture controversies. … And it’s not just Django; any conversation that involves race spirals out of control so swiftly it’s as combustible as a lit match on gasoline. I asked myself, “Why are we using…

Clutch magazine’s Kirsten West Savali wonders when the African-American men who “slut shame” Olivia Pope’s character on the Shonda Rhimes series suddenly developed such strong morals. After calculating the results of a completely random, unscientific, social media poll, I have come to the conclusion that 76.21 percent of black men do not like Scandal … In…

Clutch magazine‘s Kirsten West Savali says there will never be an appropriate time to point out the racialized differences in our reactions to tragedy, so she might as well do it today.  Six-year-old Aliyah Shell was standing on the front porch with her mother and younger sister when she was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in…

Writing at Clutch magazine, Kirsten West Savali says that the reaction to Sharmeka Moffitt’s story of a racial assault, which turned out to be fabricated, should make us wonder why we don’t get as upset when we harm one another. Where was this outrage when Latonya Bowman, 22, was abducted, set on fire, and then…

“We spend too much time rocking pink ribbons already and not enough money on actual prevention and treatment,” Kirsten West Savali writes at Clutch magazine. … With African-American women being the victims of the most aggressive form of breast cancer, and higher mortality rates than their counterparts, we can not afford to get caught up…

In a piece for NewsOne, Kirsten West Savali challenges those who claim that it’s “living in the past” to recognize black achievement at the Olympics or elsewhere. Yes, apparently in the mind of the Neo-Negro, it is segregationism to acknowledge the race of a sister or a brother because mainstream media doesn’t do the same.…

To African Americans who bought chicken to support the restaurant CEO’s anti-marriage-equality stance, Clutch magazine‘s Kirsten West Savali says that she’s sure Republicans “appreciate the funds you donated that will potentially empower their colleagues’ push for more initiatives that could have a detrimental impact on the black community at large.” When Mary J. Blige sang…