On Sunday's episode of Watch What Happens Live, Bravo TV personality Andy Cohen took his snarky behavior to a new level when he named 16-year-old Amandla
I’m a father of two daughters, and I struggle everyday to explain Black beauty to them. In an age where their Black female features are beautiful on everyone except Black women, how do I explain to them that they are beautiful? At the same time, I wonder how I am supposed to tell them Black is beautiful, while […]
https://instagram.com/p/4rYOs6BBDD/?taken-by=nubianskin Brown and Black girls have been complaining about the lack of nude underwear that actually matches their melanin-infused skin tones for years now. And their prayers were answered when Ade Hassan created Nubian Skin in 2014. The bras, panties, and hosiery are specifically designed to come in a variety of shades to match the many different […]
If the McKinney, Texas pool party incident woke America out of a historic and deliberate slumber that ignores systemic racism, we’d hope the thing that stands out most is the gendering of Black criminality. Though we fight for the brown and Black faces of men and young boys that flash across our timelines — members of society […]
As Rachel Dolezal continues to defend her identity as a Black woman, the 37-year-old is leaving even more people puzzled, recently claiming she might not
In a 10-minute-long Today Show interview Tuesday morning, the former president of the Spokane, Wash. chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored…
Hillary Clinton is gearing up to start her lengthy presidential campaign to earn the votes from citizens in the 2016 election, but immediate with supporters also come some doubters. Jada Pinkett Smith is always penning essays on her Facebook to open up conversations about controversial subjects, and her thoughts on Hillary Clinton have become part […]
On the heels of a year chock-full of political and liberation movements, the 2015 award season is proving that Hollywood has become more cognizant of the national (and many times, global) stage at their feet. In short, Hollywood has been touched by the activism bug. This is not to erase artists and performers who have long used […]
For nearly five decades, Toni Morrison, born Chloe Wofford, has gifted the world with unyielding insight and beautifully strung stories of life in America, racism, women, and love in the form of many award-winning novels, short stories, and essays. Since the publication of her first novel, The Bluest Eye, at age 39, Morrison has been a beacon for […]
Two weeks into his new hit show, our boy Larry Wilmore had to issue an apology. The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore host came under fire for a joke about Black women being bossy. “Is it because black women are too bossy?” he asked, later asking his panel, “On a scale of one to ten, […]
Welp, Raven-Symone got impeached by #BlackTwitter today. It wasn’t an easy decision, but after she told Oprah that she didn’t want to be labeled as “gay” or “African-American,” but rather be labeled as “just American,” #BlackTwitter had to throw her black ass in the 2014 race draft. After a few cyber gasps and a couple “bishhh whets?” […]
