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, […]
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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 […]
White Women Will Always Keep Me Away From Feminism
Two weeks ago I posted that I would be hosting a webinar for white women on how to be intersectional in their feminism. I intended to […]
I Learned Early That No One Gives a Fuck When Black Girls Go Missing
I was 12 years old the first time I was propositioned for sex by a grown man. He was an old man to me, maybe […]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Your Irish Ancestors Were Never Slaves
The only thing white folks love more than holidays when they can get wasted is intruding on any discussion of chattel slavery with their myth […]
Body Positivity Is for White Women
Years ago — so many that I can’t remember how many —  I watched a special on MTV where a group of famous men counted […]