We have a tendency to refer to members of the African Diaspora as a community, despite the fact that it is filled with people that have wildly different perspectives and experiences. Race supposedly...
With the Vancouver Games starting today and it also being Black History month, I have pondered why we haven't had as many excellent African-American winter Olympians as we consistently produce for...
The location is any international airport in 2010. The scene is one of controlled chaos. People are pushed, prodded, searched, questioned and scanned. Row upon row of irritated passengers interact...
At the age of twenty-one, Tiger Woods won the Masters Tournament, and never had the African American community been so excited about golf. Nike built its advertising campaign around this exuberance...
"Precious," based on the novel Push by Sapphire, tells the tale of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, dark skinned, fat, Black teenager who is a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual...
If you’ve been perusing my home blog and other transgender-themed blogs across the Internet recently, you may have noticed the TDOR acronym pop up, and wondered what it means. TDOR stands for the...
Chris Rock was driving his daughter and her friend home, when his child began to comment on how nice the little White girl’s hair was. On "The View," Rock stated that he has made a conscious to...
Since Michael Steele became the chair of the RNC, he has attempted to change the image of the Republican Party in the Black community. We have heard much about "hip hop conservatism" in his bid to...
My hair grows like my thoughts: up, out, intertwined and expansive if I leave them to their own devices. After years of wearing my hair in braids or chemically straightened, I finally convinced those...
Black femininity falls squarely into three social constructions: jezebel, mammy and sapphire. Each construction is meant to discipline Black women into subservience and marginalization. Socially,...