Why the Black Internet Believes Grammys Just Threw Shade at Beyoncé
Proof The ‘Absent Black Father’ Was a Big Lie
Jay-Z’s Daughter Rumi Carter Throws Up the Roc Nation Sign On Stage, Sparking Insane Illuminati Theories
Black Musicians Who Were Targeted By The FBI and Other Law Enforcement
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What's Up Down There?
What’s up down there? Turns out a lot of women may be afraid to ask this question. Many are too embarrassed to admit that they can’t exercise vigorously without the risk of peeing their pants. That’s what I discovered when I tried to add jump rope intervals to my boot camp class. My group of moms…
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Barack Is Not Spock
Barack is not Spock. I’ve heard so much rhapsodizing recently about the obvious kinship of the “mixed-race” marvels that I had to set the record straight. I saw “Star Trek” last weekend. Good film, but when the Vulcan commander strolled across the bridge of the Enterprise, I was not reminded of the president. Others have…
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Keeping the Faith
Out all of the letters I received in response to my piece about my plight with student loans the one that stuck out most was from a reader who noted that I neglected to mention how faith helped me deal with my circumstances. I tend to keep my faith private, but for many Americans there’s…
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At Morehouse, Giving Better than Receiving: Student Shooter to get Degree
At Morehouse, to Give Better than Receiving: Student Shooter to get Degree, Victim Will Not A Morehouse student who shot another student is on his way to receiving his degree while his victim has left the campus only three bullets richer according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Joshua Brandon Norris is catching a wrist slap for…
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Can Texas Hold 'Em?
Every year in baseball, there is a division that turns things on its head for a while; this season, the entire American League is break dancing. The National League is progressing according to expectations. All four of last year’s playoff teams—the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs—are in…
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Your Own Intimate Ceremony
is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for NPR News and co-author, with Karen Elyse Hudson, of The New Basic Black: Home Training For Modern Times (Doubleday).
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Nigeria: Hundreds Feared Dead in Military Action
Hundreds of Civilians Feared Dead in Nigerian Military Action Amnesty International has received reports hundreds of Nigerian civilians may have been massacred in a government attempt to rid the oil producing Niger delta region of rebel enclaves Reuters reports. The government has denied this claim, saying that no civilians were harmed or displaced. A military spokesman…
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Interracial America
It may be a cliché, but it’s still true: in order to understand where you’re going, you must understand where you came from. This is the approach that writers Danzy Senna and W. Ralph Eubanks take in their new books, both of which explore their histories in order to arrive at the heart of their…
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Obama Takes on Guantanamo, Torture, and Dick Cheney at National Archives
President Barack Obama addressed the nation from the National Archives this morning in a speech that had been billed as “a comprehensive overview” of United States national security, according to Ben Rhodes, a policy adviser who is also a speechwriter for the president. The speech, delivered in the wake of the Senate’s vote not to…
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Domestic Terror Plot Thwarted in New York
Domestic Terror Plot Thwarted in New York According to the Washington Post, Four men—James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen—were apprehended while plotting to use C-4 plastic explosives to bomb two Jewish centers in the Bronx, New York. The men also planned to shoot down Air National Guard planes with Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles. Stuff like this…