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 to do. If I wanted to work at Glamour magazine, a publication that primarily focuses […]
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 of this time, I’m ready to go ahead and write about some of the things […]
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 believed, back in 2009 when she was convicted of murder, that she was involved in […]
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 in the way of a great message–one that’s been done over and over again–but one […]
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 said to make that much of an impression on these people. So I head on […]
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 will be unveiled as the new Ultimate Spider-Man. Ya se armo, mi gente! Revealed in […]
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 point, I deemed Common “conscious” but I was younger then. It’s been a long time […]
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 well-written piece that resonated with me on so many levels: The White Girl Mob media […]
It’s been a while since I last visited Brooklyn, New York. The last time I was there I had to worry about stop-and-frisk and being randomly being felt up by the NYPD with every twenty paces I took out in Brownsville. As if things couldn’t get any worse out in Brooklyn, now it seems that […]
I stayed up all night the other night just so that I wouldn’t miss a minute of Nelson Mandela’s memorial. I found out that it was to be aired at 4 a.m. EST which is 3 a.m. in my time zone, and somewhere around 11 p.m. when I found out I decided not to go […]
A few weeks ago there was mass hysteria over what is known as the knockout game. To let the media and racist right-wing trolls tell it, young black men were randomly targeting unsuspecting white folks in public, to be punched in the face without warning. According to reports, there have been at least three deaths […]
Nelson Mandela has died; and to hear some right-wingers tell it, he started the knockout game when he was released from prison. Yes, in the collective psyche of many white conservatives, Mandela was a terrorist with a thirst for revenge much like Jamie Foxx’s character in Django Unchained. I don’t know whether my conservative friends […]
This is my unasked for and unwanted advice to anyone who didn’t know actor Paul Walker personally, yet feels a deep sense of grief and loss over his untimely death as if they did. Get over it. Paul Walker was a good-looking guy. He made some movies that some people liked and they made a lot of […]
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