25-Year-Old American Jailed for Tweet Criticizing Zimbabwean Leader Robert Mugabe
A young white American woman is finding her life held in the balance by an African dictator.
‘Aloha Also Means Goodbye’: Hawaii Gives Trump the Trolling He Deserves
Because President Donald Trump built his political career on the racist “Birther” theory claiming that former U.S. President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, Hawaii had an answer for the 45th POTUS when he touched down in Obama’s home state Friday.
No Romance Without … Resistance?
Come again? In a recent interview with Marie Claire, singer Janelle Monáe discussed her ideas when it comes to participating in resistance. I’m not going to lie: As a hot-blooded, fully grown and liberated woman who is in both her sexual prime and a happily grown-and-sexy relationship, reading this quote from one of …
Underground: A Stellar Slave Tale Even if You’re Slaved Out
Whenever I hear skinfolk exclaim that they are exhausted by slave-related stories, my immediate reaction traditionally is to extend to them the invitation to shut their black asses up. About a year ago, though, I inadvertently behaved like the kind of people I have written about. The kind who more or less profess to…
Everything I Know About Black History I Learned in the Middle Room
In 1952 my grandfather built a house for his wife and six children in a small South Carolina town. The house had four bedrooms, one bathroom, a dining room and a living room you could enter only if you were dressed in your Sunday best or entertaining company or if somebody had died. After my grandfather passed away,…
White Advice for Black Protesters
Hello, angry black people!
