It is that time of year again. Ill be helping out with the frenzy before the 5th annual Blogging While Brown Conference. In case you didnt know, it is one of the largest gatherings of your favorite B...
Apparently Bar-B-Que Wives hit a new low in its most recent episode. Havent seen it, but a clip from the Basketball Wives "reunion" show has Shaunie Oneal the alleged "producer" of th...
I dont know how this spring ended up be the season of FAT here on WAOD, but I didnt start it. Let me be clear - this current focus on trying to label Black women as fat and engaging in a bunch of hyp...
Le sigh. Just when we are recovering from Alice Randalls rhetorical terrorist attack on Black women in the New York Times where she declared that Black women are the only fat women on the planet...
Oh what is that I see? oh its some more slander of Black women by another Black woman thirsty for attention. Sorry for the sensational, possibly offensive title- Im just taking my cue from the New Yo...
Have you heard about Beasts of the Southern Wild? Probably not unless you are a film festival follower. This film stars a little Black girl named Quvenzhane Wallis who plays a character named Hushpup...
So a year ago today I wrote a blog post called Carols Daughter Hates Black Women. And in that time, no other OLD post has gotten so many comments... deleted. The second most irresistible OLD posts to...
Congrats WAOD audience, you are being featured in Black Enterprises Black Blogger Month. I say this because any recognition I receive from this blog is the result of WAOD readers being willing ...
In the spirit of Lil Waynes "How to Love," and Jay-Z s Blue Ivy tribute "Glory" folks went gah gah because Nas dedicated a song to his daughter, creatively called "daughter." ...
If you live in LA, NYC or Atlanta, Restless City, the latest movie being released by the group spearheaded by Ava Duvernay is coming out TODAY. If you live in LA, NYC or Atlanta, you can purchase tic...
In what must have been a bout of procrastination, I peeked in on my Twitter feed and saw an interesting tweet about Deion Sanders. I thought it had something to do with Mr. Sanders stepping out with ...
Well we know Black women love kevin Hart because Black women provided 60% of the ticket sales that made up Think Like a Mans 33 million dollar haul. This despite the fact that one of the movies stars...
Can you believe it has been 5 years since the very first Blogging While Brown Conference? Many of your favorite Black bloggers including Afrobella, The Field Negro, Awesomely Luvvie, and...
Wow 5 years ago today I started blogging here. I didnt think Id last past the first month. I guess the universe had other plans. My first post was right after watching an Oprah show called After Imus...
So Sweedish artist Makode Linde allegedly wanted to make a point about female circumcision. What better way to do that thant to bake a red velvet cake in the shape of a Black womans body and invite S...
I love it when my readers act on their own volition and engage in activism NOT at my urging :). Readers apparently contacted Ford Public Affairs after we published our report on Kevin Hart spreading ...
Ah yes, it looks like another client of the law firm of Dewey, Cheatum & Howe has been unleashed on the internets. You know a celebrity is running scared when they start stammering and yammering ...
Well ladies as you prepare to prop up yet another movie whose sucess is totally dependent on you and your sisterfriends traveling en mass to "support" folks who kinda sorta dont like you very...
Oh where is the Kaiser Foundation when you need them? If you will remember several weeks ago, the Washington Post and the Kaiser Foundation published an article in their year long series " (Fat) ...
I was doing script rewrites last night so I didnt see the premeire of SCANDAL on ABC. I did however, hear a ton of radio advertising on local radio about it and Kerry Washingtons name was prominent i...
ESSENCE magazines posterchild for bridal fashions, Evelyn Lozada is in a clip from the VH1 show Basketball Wives and she is shown bashing a Black woman in the head with a bag. But the physical attack...
From our friends across the pond, this a movie called Fast Girls. Its about the womens relay team. Im assuming the 4X100. Kinda nice to have a sports story about womens athletics. It star...
Of course I know WHY. To say the coverage about OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, has been a tad bit pessimistic, would be an understatement. Some Black entertainment sites might as well start an OWN D...
Leave it in the comments. Lurkers, in particular, are encouraged to participate :)
I was going to write a post about coping skills for readers who have a problem with me calling out foolishness when I see it, but instead you get a Hunger Games post! Right now Im sure those of...
HA! So last week , I put up a post noting that the resident misogynist over at Shadow and Act, was panning a Barbara Jordan biopic, before hes seen so much as a treatment or outline of the film,...
I just learned that this week is International Anti-Street Harassment Week while reading a post named after the documentary "Black Woman Walking". She was memorializing Adilah Gaither: I live...
Ah yes my sistren and brethren. Someone plans to produce a film about Barbara Jordan, one of my idols by the by, and before they can even get the film cast, the movie is being bashed by one of the co...
Yes. Yes. Another study about how terrible it is to be a Black woman in this country. Oh Da Burden, Da Burden! As the health community geared up to recognizeNational Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day...
Lance Gross and Blogger/Performer/Singer/Songs tress/Panelist/Passenger Dr. Goddess. Busy weekend. I spoke at the SXSW Interactive Conference. You can see a write-up of my presentation over on Black E...
You are no longer following . Undo?
English
Suomi
Svenska