Should Black Americans Care That Trump Is Targeting African Nations For Deportation After Years of Africans Being So Damn Disrespectful To Us?
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
Arkansas Deputy Gets His Karma After Racist Video Spreads Online
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Monday's Headlines
AP: Obama Announces Plan to Cut Tax Loopholes AA: Zimbabwe: Mukanya Revisits Chimurenga Classics CBS: Malawian Dad Opposes Madonna Adoption FOX: First Family May Vacation in Martha’s Vineyard NWS: Doctors Warn Skin Cancer is Equal-Opportunity Disease SFC: Senators Want Obama to Look Beyond Fed. Bench for Souter Replacement TR: Black Youth Shunning Baseball BET: LeBron…
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Pacquiao/Hatton: 25 Bucks a Round
The Paquiao/Hatton fight made me long for the days of real boxing. These guys were not evenly matched going in — Pac Man was going to own him, and everyone knew it. I almost paid to watch this bout, but that was the last time I evcen think about it — it came out to,…
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Kitchen Beauticians
Last month, the world was all a Twitter when Oprah started to tweet. Folks, seeing their first line into her personal world, asked about her weave. Oprah set the record straight: She does not have a weave; she has a press and curl. How, in all these years on television and movie sets, has no…
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Jack Kemp—The Reason I Became a Republican
“I would like to see an America where black and white actually listen to each other. These issues can’t be solved with rhetoric but with sound positive progressive inclusive policies. I want to see the Republican Party lead that debate because we are the Party of Lincoln and we must be an inclusionary party. .…
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When Bullying Leads to Suicide
I wish I could’ve spoken to Carl Walker-Hoover and Jaheem Herrera before they decided to kill themselves. Not to tell them that they’re far too young to take their lives at 11. Evidently both felt otherwise. I wouldn’t have bothered repeating the trite adage “sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never…
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Vlogging While Black
For every breakout YouTube star such as Souljah Boy and Susan Boyle, there are thousands of would-be-video diarists, or vloggers, uploading away in obscurity. The lucky vloggers, such as “Fred,” gain more than 1 million followers. Played by 15-year-old Lucas Cruikshank, “Fred” banks six figures from major product placements and revenue from ads on his…
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Why You Need To Accept Your Losses & Move Forward
Karl Mills, head of the investment firm Jurika, Mills & Kiefer in Oakland, California, has noticed a pattern among many of his clients. Their responses to the volatile stock market are not all that different from those lingering in the stages of grief. What’s the source of their anguish? Mills says, “I think they’re grieving…
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A Belated Farewell to Painter Ernie Barnes
I couldn’t sit with myself if I didn’t offer an official farewell to painter Ernie Barnes. The prolific and talented painter passed away Monday. I don’t know about you, but I grew up watching reruns of Good Times and gazing at the cover of Marvin Gaye’s I Want You as my parents listened and grooved…
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Vlogging While Black
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” For her over 22,000 subscribers, TonyaTKO focuses on empowering people. Her often lengthy videos—any clip over five minutes is long in YouTube time, while hers are often over 10 minutes—focus on personal, political and cultural issues,…
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Sex and Politics in Kenya
I read my last post about the sex strike in Nairobi and it was clear to me that it missed its mark. So it seems wholey appropriate to revisit the topic, because I suspect my point was lost in the malarkey. So much of me wonders, in a group of obviously intelligent women –smart enough…