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In Laughing it Up With Trump During the Carter Funeral, Was Obama Playing In Our Faces?
The optics of the two former presidents acting like old friends left a sour taste in our mouths.
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Black Ad Agencies Matter
So does Hyundai’s recent campaign targeting Black women
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A Father’s Lifesaving Strategy to End His Son’s Fascination With Toy Guns
The last thing I ever expected to happen during a trip to a suburban-Connecticut pool party was that my son would fall in love with guns. Big, bazooka Super Soaker water guns, to be exact. At the time, my son was a freshly minted 3-year-old who instantly became fascinated with water “gums.” He mispronounced “guns”…
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Beyond 12 Years a Slave: 8 More Books We Want to See on the Big Screen
Solomon Northup’s harrowing story, 12 Years a Slave, was deserving of the silver screen and the accolades that followed. But there are books by black authors, like Tananarive Due, Octavia Butler and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, that tell other stories, beyond the whips and chains of slavery, that Hollywood should consider bringing to the big screen.…
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When White Men Mess Up, All Is Forgiven
This was not a great week for white men. And what we may have learned is a lesson that should be obvious but is not always apparent, with the media spotlight usually affixed on people of color and their poor choices or misfortunes. The lesson is that white men can succumb to drugs, even if…
