From xoNecole: Cisters, we need to talk. (By “cis” I mean cisgender women–people who were assigned female at birth and also identify as women). We’re living in scary times, battling multiple pandemics, and in the wake of the Supreme Court gutting abortion rights, the assault on autonomy over our bodies
From ‘The Zombification of Whitney Houston’ on Refinery29 Unbothered: In Haitian mythology, the idea of what we now call zombies emerged from enslaved Africans’ deepest fear: not even death would bring freedom. Though suicide was common on the brutal French enslavers’ plantations, the enslaved feared suicide would leave them trapped in
From Shadow and Act: Disclaimer: This article contains serious spoilers about Marvel’s Black Panther. “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all the time.” This is James Baldwin’s prolific quote about being Black in America and
From The Root: The straights are at it again. Over the weekend, singer Ciara caused an internet stir when she posted on Instagram a clip from a sermon by Houston’s Lakewood megachurch pastor John Gray telling single women why they’re not married. “Too many women want to be married
From On She Goes: On the third floor of New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), there’s a small refuge for Black travelers. Artist Derrick Adams’s first major NYC exhibit, Sanctuary, pays homage to The Negro Motorist Green Book, a publication that helped Black travelers find safe places to eat, sleep, use
Fashion brand H&M raised the ire of many when it released a racist ad of a young black boy in a green hoodie with “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle” inscribed on the front. The ad sparked immediate backlash on social media and prompted boycotts of the Swedish retailer. Even one
From NewsOne: he moment I set foot in Washington, D.C., the day before Donald Trump‘s inauguration, I was instantly filled with remorse. His supporters were easy to identify at Union Station with their White supremacist paraphernalia and palpable glee. They had won a battle they were never really in danger of losing, and while I knew that intellectually, my spirit was still sick. “Why did I come here?” I asked myself. It wasn’t for what a Facebook friend dubbed the Million Microaggressions March; the massive gathering of
From Global Grind: Eddie Long has died of cancer. New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, where the 63-year-old ordained bishop served as senior pastor in Lithonia, Georgia, confirmed his death Sunday morning. His friends, family and supporters may feel this is the time to focus on the work he did in the
From GlobalGrind.com: Kim Burrell, girl, you messed up. I’m sure you know that by now, since the backlash you faced after a clip of your homophobic “sermon” in which you called gays and lesbians “perverted” and an embarrassment to the kingdom of God went viral. You tried to clean it up
From GlobalGrind.com: Academy Award-winner Octavia Spencer stars in the upcoming film adaptation of the 2007 best-selling book The Shack and White male evangelicals are none too pleased. Spencer plays the role of God in the film about a man who returns to the shack where his young daughter was murdered