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  • The Hair ‘Down There’: How to Ask a Woman to ‘Trim the Hedges’

    Is it polite for a man to ask a lady to trim herself “down there”? She really likes me to give her oral, but it’s difficult with so much growth. I’ve hinted about it, but she never seems to get it, and I’m considering the direct approach. Just don’t want to offend her, but I…

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  • Viola Davis’ Debut in How to Get Away With Murder Stuns in Satisfying ShondaLand Fashion

    Swathed in a sexy, brick red, butter-leather jacket and dangling earrings, with a dash of cleave and coiffed in a short haircut borrowed from the files and styles of RiRi—clearly appropriate for after-5 shenanigans—Viola Davis is worlds away from the more modest stylings of such roles as Aibileen in The Help and even the early parts of her portrayal…

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  • First Lady: Don’t Forget What Obama Has Meant for Race and Same-Sex Marriage

    The chatter about President Barack Obama’s legacy has already begun, and Michelle Obama is leading the charge, offering a glimpse into just how proud she is of what her husband has accomplished thus far as president. “[J]ust think about how different our country looks to children growing up today,” the first lady said in a…

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  • Obama Gave Marine Guards a Coffee-Handed Salute and It Pissed Off His Haters

    For most Americans, the morning coffee is inarguably one of the most important beverages of the day. And yet when President Barack Obama stepped off the presidential helicopter on Tuesday clutching a coffee cup and gave a few Marine guards a coffee-handed salute as a result, the gesture angered a few of his most loyal…

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  • Here’s Some History Behind That ‘Angry Black Woman’ Riff the NY Times Tossed Around

    If you’re a devoted Scandal watcher, by now you’ve read, or at least heard, about the New York Times’ Alessandra Stanley and her painfully off-key review of Shonda Rhimes’ television oeuvre, which, mercifully, has been roundly blasted by The Root’s Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele, Vulture’s Margaret Lyons and many, many others. Even as Stanley and the Times…

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  • Prime-Time TV Inches Closer to Living Color

    The title alone was enough to set some people on edge.   But the producers of ABC’s Black-ish have spent a lot of time assuring potential viewers that the show isn’t just a collection of jokes about an upper-middle-class family.   Instead, the sitcom about a black, upper-middle-class dad (Anthony Anderson) who fears that his kids…

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  • 100 Years Later, a New Black Film Emerges

    Recently discovered reels from a 1913 film have become the oldest-known footage of a movie featuring a black cast, reports the New York Times. Found in the film archives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the untitled silent film depicts middle-class black life in the early-Jim Crow era. The footage found…

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  • ABC’s New Black-ish Strives to Keep It Real While Keeping It Funny

    If 2013 was all about “cultural appropriation”—the Grammys, Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” Billboard’s color vacancy, that damn twerk—then 2014 might just be all about “policing” bodies, respectability … and blackness. Everywhere you look, there are guidelines being open-source administered by all but unfortunately adhered to only by few. So maybe it makes sense that this would be…

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  • Wal-Mart Institutes New Dress Code Workers Say They Can’t Afford

    In an effort to spruce up the look of its stores for the upcoming holiday season, Wal-Mart has implemented a new dress code policy and wants its employees to wear collared shirts and khaki pants. But workers say they don’t know how they’ll pay for the new wardrobe, seeing as how they only make approximately $800 a month, the Huffington Post reports. Wal-Mart…

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  • Ray Rice Scandal Causes NBA to Review Its Domestic Violence Policies

    There’s nothing wrong with learning from the mistakes of others, and the NBA is doing just that. Its officials are seeing just how much havoc unclear and lax domestic violence policies have caused the NFL, and so NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has described how the basketball league is getting ahead of the ball and reviewing its…

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