Writing at Clutch magazine, Zettler Clay says that the president’s “wise words” about the media’s effect on politics have a double edge. … Headlines all across the web yesterday: Obama: Media to blame for promoting gridlock … The president is no fool. He knows that a growing part of his base feels this way. That’s…

Writing at Clutch magazine, Zettler Clay says that the president’s “continuation of the hackneyed black pathology rhetoric of his political predecessors” is beyond disappointing. Fatherhood in black culture is laced with explosives. President Barack Obama seems to have a taste for pyrotechnics. On Friday, he hit his old Chicago stomping grounds to speak at Hyde…

Writing at Clutch magazine, Zettler Clay says that when it comes to male-female relationships, it’s a dangerous game to take one narrative and apply it as the default. Recently, a documentary made its way into my Gmail inbox. Frustrated: Black American Men in Brazil expounds on a piece published a few years ago in Essence about Black…

Clutch magazine‘s Zettler Clay argues that “unless there is heightened demand for artistic honesty in dealing with life’s issues, particularly qualms with the opposite sex, hip-hop will plateau and thus fall far short of its rich potential.” Misogyny is bigger than hip hop. The word literally means “woman hater” and society’s marginalization of women came…