opinion
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Why an Empathetic Black Reporter Sparked Backlash in Sports Media
Recent interviews reveal double standard in how Black journalists are treated versus their white peers.
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Why Nobody Cares What You Think About About Single and Childless Black Women
OPINION: Let’s talk about this “single and childless” narrative, because there’s so much more to unpack.
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Why Black Internet Has Had Enough of B. Simone’s Antics
Her latest episode of “Let’s Try This Again” podcast has people analyzing her personal and business approach and she is going out sad.
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Y'all Tired Yet?
My mother thinks I love her. During one of our long rambling conversations about who died in our hometown and her trying to make me remember Miss Cora (who, I am apparently supposed to recall when she bought me a lollipop in the Piggly Wiggly when I was 3 years old…you know, she drove that…
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To Georgia, and Black People, Who Are One and the Same
Real quick: I heard them on the phone talking about you, disparaging your integrity. I would have at least told them to keep my people’s name out of their mouths, but I imagine that’s how white boys talk in private. In my head, they’re always talking about titties, yelling the n-word or concocting a nefarious…
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Colin Calling It: Embattled Football Superstar Under Fire for Tweets About Iran, 'America's Terrorist Attacks'
Damned be the black man that has an opposing opinion. It’s been pretty well established that some people are always going to have a problem with a black person telling it like it is; especially when it’s Colin Kaepernick, who had the nerve to express his opinion about the impending war President Donald Trump could…
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No, Van Jones, I Do Not Have to Give the Racist in Chief ‘His Due’
As someone who was born, raised, and currently lives in the South, I have grown accustomed to hearing colorful phrases infused with racist overtones, such as betraying someone by “selling them down the river” or hearing an unsolicited comment from the “peanut gallery.” In fact, a few days ago, I engaged my Yankee coworkers in…