culture
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Kente Cloth Klansmen and Paul Rucker’s Art That Provokes
Paul Rucker isn’t intentionally provocative. His art tells American stories. It just so happens that those stories are provocative, wretched and criminal. At the opening last week of his installation “Rewind” at the Baltimore Museum of Art, there are rows of tall and imposing mannequins donning Ku Klux Klan robes. One holds a baby wearing…
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Michelle Obama Is Simply Breathtaking at the China State Dinner
The president and first lady hosted China’s President Xi Jinping and his wife, Madame Peng Liyuan, at a White House state dinner Friday evening. And the first couple gave photographers quite a playful greeting as the president admired his wife, who stunned in what was reported to be a Vera Wang gown.
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First I Was His Side Chick, Now I’m His Wife and I’m Having Second Thoughts
I recently married a man who cheated on his child’s mother with me and other women. We had a short engagement and were married only a few months after his previous relationship ended. I think we got married too quickly. He and his ex have been in an ongoing custody battle and I am second-guessing…
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Scandal Recap: Happily Ever After? Not So Fast
Scandal heads, rejoice, for Scandal is back! And the season 5 premiere got us prepped and ready for what’s to come this season. Ripped straight from the (verrry old) headlines, the case of the week was based on Princess Diana’s infamous fatal car accident. Unlike in real life, however, Olivia Pope is on the case, and she figures out…
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How to Get Away With Murder Recap: Surprising Kisses and Guess Who Gets Shot?
Twists and turns. Drama gets deadly as we recap the four big takeaways from the season 2 opener of How to Get Away With Murder. 1. Who Killed Rebecca? The season 1 finale of How to Get Away With Murder left viewers with an unsolved murder, but the season 2 premiere presented a quick answer, all…
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Empire Recap: It’s Good to Be the King
Last season, Lucious gave us a taste of what was to come when, in the final scene, he turned to the camera and menacingly notified us, “Game on, bitches.” Well, the game’s afoot, everyone is scrambling for control and Lucious is still winning. Cookie unleashes the beast. It’s three months after Lucious’ arrest for Bunkie’s…
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Return to ShondaLand: 10 Things to Remember for the New Seasons of Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder
With last year’s addition of How to Get Away With Murder to ABC’s existing Thursday-night lineup, which already included Scandal and longtimer Grey’s Anatomy, Thursday nights were officially rebranded as #TGIT. And for the past several months, TGIT fans have suffered through withdrawal from all of the murders, affairs, scandals and general degeneracy to which they have grown accustomed. But finally,…
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Wesley Snipes Could Have Run the Empire, but He’s Good With The Player
It’s no secret that Lee Daniels initially envisioned Wesley Snipes—over Terrence Howard—in the role of Lucious Lyon on Empire. While Snipes is not ruling the Lyon clan, he has joined TV’s diversity party with NBC’s The Player, a high-concept, action-packed drama set in Vegas where high rollers gamble on whether a player will stop a…
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We Don’t All Look Alike, but if You Think We Do, Thank Racism
A recent New York Times article opens with a false dichotomy. Its peg is the overly forceful arrest of James Blake by a plainclothes police officer. The arrest, for which New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton has since apologized, occurred when the biracial tennis star was mistaken for another black man suspected of ID…
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6 Tips on Approaching Women (Without Scaring Them)
According to certain people on the Internets, men just don’t know how to approach women anymore. Because feminism apparently gives these men mixed messages. Or maybe it’s the fear of street-harassment whistles. Or Planned Parenthood. Or Beyoncé’s “7/11” video. Either way, (some) men are apparently confused as hell, because “Hey, it’s probably not the best…