• No, You May Not Touch My Hair

    In piece for Clutch magazine, Thembi Ford writes that she’s tired of strangers who find her hair exotic and think it’s OK to treat her “like a stuffed animal.” Last night, while I was trying to catch the bartender’s attention just a few minutes after last call had been announced, a girl I didn’t know…

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  • 'For Colored Girls' Who Don't Like Tyler Perry

    Getting his hot little hands on Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf was coup of the year for Tyler Perry. Not only will he produce and direct the upcoming film version, the King of Coonery will also write the adaptation of what may be the…

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