Years ago when Essence came under fire for hiring a white woman as the creative fashion director for the iconic Black women’s magazine, I came to the defense of that decision. I still believe that it was the right thing…
Originally posted at TheModernLatina.com I’ve been sitting on this post for awhile because I guess I just didn’t know how to broach this. I wanted to make sure I didn’t come out extra bitter or angry. I think after all…
I won’t get into the tawdry details of the murder of poor Meredith Kercher. You should or must know that by now. I won’t get into all of the drama surrounding Amanda Knox because you can read that here . I…
Originally posted at ChasingSixPacks.com First, let me start off by saying I think that actor Boris Kodjoe and his wife Nicole Ari Parker seem like genuinely nice people and a fine couple. With that said, I think Kodjoe’s sanctimoniousness got…
Today while at work, I received a few heads up from some folks who were quite irritated with the rants my relative was making on his Facebook wall. I started wondering what the hell was going on and what he’d…
Chevere Marvel has made an impressive decision to shake things up a little bit, and add a little sabor to its Ultimate Spider-Man comic series. In Ultimate Fallout Issue number four–in stores Wednesday–a half-black, half-latino (Afro-Latino) kid named Miles Morales…
Last week, blogger Necole Bitchie posted rapper Common’s new song “Ghetto Dreams” that was quite a deviation from the image he’s purveyed in the past. It’s also, lyrically, repugnant especially for a rapper that people have deemed “conscious”. At one…
Last week, buzz surrouding a white female rapper named Kreayshawn and her signing by Sony was all over the blogosphere. Some people were all for her, and others were underestandably displeased. The Crunk Feminist Collective dissected Kreayshawn in a very…
Beyonce and her army of girls who run the world in lingerie… As a fan of Diplo and “Pon De Floor“, I was curious about Beyonce’s new song “Run The World (Girls)”. I mean, she samples Diplo’s cut, so I…
Let me go ahead and premise this by saying that if you want to do war on this post, a war is what you will get. Whenever I do posts like these, the “zombies” come out as if I were…