the hardline

I don’t much believe in the cult of celebrity, but sometimes you learn a lot from watching how they live their lives. As a public service, I give you… 10 Things You Could Learn From Tiger Woods 1. Variety? Not the spice of life we thought it was. It’s weird for me to look at…

The big story leading the news all week around my way is about a caricature of local politico Nina Turner depicted as Aunt Jemima in the designated black newspaper, The Call and Post. The issue being debated isn’t whether Turner is right or wrong, but whether or not it’s racist to call her an Aunt…

The actual consuming of food is the easy part of holidays with her peeps. It’s the before and after that’ll get ya, when they are getting to know you…getting to know ALL about you. You are an idiot if you indulge it and an idiot if you dodge out of it. I just tried to…

People that know me will tell you I love a good media-manufactured brouhaha as much as the next media meatball, but the tempest behind the Heather Ellis case, with calls for you to take a day off your good job and go march or whatever, has come to a boil today. The Internet is outraged…

There used to be a time when you could crap out of high school, get a job at the local factory and bring home some really decent cheese. Then came a time when a  college degree was your entree into the midldle class and all that it had to offer. Now, they want you to…

There seems to be some controversy as to who brought down Nidal Malki Hasan, the Fort Hood Shooter: the doe-faced white cop or the brother cop on-scene. Why is it that when you have two certified heroes — one black, the other one white — it always seems like we celebrate the white one first…

All the sisters want to trap themselves a Barack Obama archetype, and are in search of the perfect poison to put in their potion of love to get them an instant presidential candidate. You all know how I feel about it — it’s not like I think women should opt out of college or a…

I’m a big fan of K. Danielle Edwards’ blog, where she muses about black moms, black marriage and generally basks in the glow of her successful nuclear family. It’s hard to hate on someone who has found love and can make it work — I know Danielle, so I know she deserves it. But I…

By now you have heard about the case of the horrific serial murders of black women on Cleveland’s East Side and wonder how it could happen. How could bodies be sitting up rotting in somebody’s house, stinking up an entire neighborhood, and nobody get to the bottom of it? How does a pervert move in…

We have a number of late-night contenders of color on the horizon, and it begs the question why people of color have been unable to keep a late-night show on the air for any extended period of time. It’s probably got something to do with Da White Man holding us down or whatever, but Newsweek…