Women Cannot Expect Men to Be Allies Unless We’re Nicer to Them
As I’ve declared time and again, I am not – indisputably not – a feminist. Part of the reason is because the feminist movement is so […]
Articles by LaSha
Ain’t Y’all Tired of Calling on White People to Stop Their Own?
My social media timelines are bursting with talk about Charlottesville. No, I’m not providing a link because you all know what happened down there. My […]
Julian’s Joint: On Radical Black Indifference as Survival
Foreword by LaSha. “They Black?” I have a friend who used to shoot off this question anytime I told her about a tragedy I’d […]
Bill Maher Gotta Go and Y’all Good Ni***s Do Too
In a typical day, the word “nigga” or its plural comes out of my mouth and keyboard at least a few dozen times. I make […]
My Enemy’s Enemy Ain’t My Friend: Why Y’all Need to Stop Sipping Comey’s Tea
More than 54 years ago, Dr. King received an “anonymous” letter. The letter ended with an ambiguous prompt to kill himself. Within its paragraphs, though, […]
Why #BlackGirlMagic Failed Marilyn Mosby
I don’t think I’ll forget where I was the morning of May 1, 2015. I had been having a hell of a week considering the mayhem that […]
Stop Making Jesse Williams’ Wife a Victim
Unlike what seems like every other person on the planet, Shondaland doesn’t hold a permanent reservation on my Thursday nights. Sans a couple years when […]
Forgiveness Is Not Black People’s Superpower
One day when my son was just four-years-old, I received a call from his teacher because he had thrown a few tantrums in the class […]
Stop Blaming Black Women for Black Men’s Rage
As I sat down to write this, I had to google to find the name of Steve Stephens, the man currently evading police after murdering […]
Black People, Allies Don’t Exist, So Stop Baking Them Cookies
A couple of months ago, I made a Facebook status that ruffled a few feathers. Well, honestly, most of my statuses ruffle feathers, but this […]