race & politics
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What Those Kids In McKinney Should Have Done To Prevent The Cops From Assaulting Them
Like many of you, I’ve spent much of today watching and talking about the disturbing video of the police officers assaulting and arresting Black children at a pool party in McKinney, Texas. This incident apparently occurred Friday evening, and at least one officer has reportedly been suspended as a result. But while the suspension would seem to…
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Damon On BET (And Jezebel) Speaking On The Wackness Of The "New Black"
Last month, BET invited Damon to New York City to address the New Black wackness running amok and read an edited version of “Eight Signs You’re “Just Black” Even Though You Believe You’re “New Black.” While in the city, he also stopped by the Jezebel offices to contribute to a video piece Hillary Crosley Coker…
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Why I'd Give An Entire Kidney To Live In Key & Peele's "Negrotown"
Life with white folks ain’t been no luxurious affair. It’s had tragedies in it, And bullshit, And patience torn up, And times when you wanna snatch ‘em bald— Bare… —Excerpt from “I’se Still Shinin’,” by Alexander Hardy, 2015 Being a chocolate wonder amidst the armed Zimmerbitches and institutional hateration in the dancery is no easy…
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I Don't Know Where The Movie 'DOPE' Came From, But I'm Excited As Hell About It!
‘Round here, we love us some Black movies. The Blacker the movie, the greater the likelihood that I will spend copious amounts of money time on Netflix sifting through films featuring pantheon Black-movie savants like Clifton Powell, Vivica Fox, and Essence Atkins. Thing is, most of those movies suck. There’s a reason you haven’t heard of most…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 28. Full Beards
Everyone knows that if you were to happen to encounter a random pack of Bougie Black People in the wild — perhaps at a gallery crawl or a Delta Sigma Theta potluck — and you wanted to make a good first impression, the best way of doing so would be to find a woman (any woman,…
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Motherhood, Art, And Police Brutality
“I’m here and your eyes lucky. I’m here and your future lucky.”* -poet Angel Nafis, “Gravity” Part I: Motherhood Changes Everything Our son, Maze, is a miracle, born to us on May 27 of last year. In 2012, I lost two pregnancies, back to back, one in early January and the other in early April.…