Im NOT saying much about this Too Short nonsense on the blog because I really dont want to play the Black communitys reindeer games. I gave a quote to the Grio because they asked politely for one, ot...
Yesterday on the WAOD Facebook Fan Page, I posted an article called 25 Extremely Upsetting Reactions to Chris Brown at the GRAMMYS that collected 25 women’s reactions to Chris Brown’s per...
I always thought Whitney Houston was one record deal, one television show, one miraculous moment away from returning to greatness. Dayum. Dayum Dayum!. Im cross posting this from the Facebook fan pag...
Surprise! Sunday post. So you saw the movie, how was it? Red Tails is on pace to be #2 at the box office, with about 20 mil. Over at Shadow and Act, they are praising God that Red Tails saved Black C...
So last Friday in an honest attempt to crowd source and have my readers tell me why I should go see Red Tails in light of Terrance Howards horrifically bad acting in the trailer, I put up what I thou...
Im breaking my posting rules and posting twice today... because I know it will annoy and flummox the Black Thought Police who have been defening the erasure of Black women from the Red Tails movie an...
In some ways you have to feel sorry for Mr. Paula Patton. He was hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray by the male-identified women working at your favorite publication and mine, ESSENCE magazine.
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. As is tradition around here, we go hunting in search of footage of Dr. King beyond the "I have a Dream" soundbyte that will run all day today. ...
I STILL havent seen The Help and have no desire to see it. So the next movie Black folks just HAVE to see or they will NEVER make another Black movie EVER again is Red Tails. Red Tails is appar...
Almost two years ago, I mentioned Christina Whatley by name in a post about Freaknik Freaknick Freaknic. Almost two years later, someone purporting to be Christina Whatley decided to Google herself. ...
This is my first post of 2012 and as I promised on the Facebook Fan Page, Im leaving the snark behind in 2012. Therefore anytime i say something that someone might possibly interpret as snarkilicious...
Our regularly scheduled programming starts up again on Monday, but while we were out over the holidays, NPR ran a story about the "come back" of Chris Brown and the teenage girls that love hi...
Happy Halloween! This is my last post here at the blog in 2011. The next time I here post, it will be 2012. Well keep the party rolling over at the WAOD Facebook Fan Page for the rest of the yea...
In what only can be described as a very public rebuke of one of most powerful Black radio personalities in the country, Allstate, a major sponsor of Tom Joyner stated publicly that it does not trust ...
As you know, Im on media diet so Im supplementing my news consumption with alternative programming and Oprahs Lifeclass in on my list. Oprah and Iyanla are back together again and apparently Op...
You can comment on an earlier post. Ill be posting about the FACTS involving Allstate being the TITLE sponsor of an event where Mr. Wilson was a speaker. WOW in less than 24 hours, theyve done ...
Its only been NINE DAYS since many of you alerted Allstate insurance company that they were the sponsor of an event where Genarlow Wilson, a man tried for a gang rape and convicted of AGGRAVATED CHIL...
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. - MLK One week ago today I informed you that convicted sexual predator Genarlow Wilson is attempting to transform himself in...
I have not been a fan of Oprahs new network OWN, but I admire her courage for making the attempt. I did catch episodes of her Behind the Scenes show which was great! Especially the episode where Jenn...
Weve been writing here for YEARS about the viceral hatred and lack of compassion in the Black community for young Black women. A young Black boy can commit arson, murder, rape and torture, and there ...
"Genarlow watched, waited and gladly took his turn. " As the saying goes, you are entitled to your own opinion, but NOT your own facts. Weve reached our annual allotment of deluded and q...
So a few of you have mentioned this series, Black Folks Dont and then I went over to Shadow and Act and they had three episodes. This one is Black Folks Dont Do Yoga ( this one has by the by). v...
Are we seeing the first signs of "THE HELP" - Effect. Whereby Hollywood TEMPORARILY falls in love with southern Black women... or should I say, White women watching southern Black women on Li...
For those of you who have not been following the Facebook Fan page, weve been following the progress of the web series Awkward Black Girl, first introduced to moi over at Shadow and Act. They raised ...
Um when someone tells you who they are, BELIEVE THEM! Of course if Isaish Mustafa was a non-Black man, the torches and the pitchforks would be OUT!. This is what he said on E! News “I want my k...
Thanks ... or NO THANKS to the folks at Shadow and Act for discovering this precious gem called Shouldve Put a Ring on It. Starring Robin Givens (bless her heart), Bobby V ( Who?), and Miguel Nunez. ...
Steve Jobs died today. I can never listen to this commencement speech enough. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven dont want to die to get there. And yet death is the desti...
Zabeth, a long time reader of this blog, recently released an e-book called The New Dating Rules for Black Women: Dating Etiquette. So all of you Black women who run out to buy tombs written by...
Well this was a hot button issue over on the WAOD Facebook Fan Page, so much so that someone ( a Black woman) got banned on a Saturday of all days ( when Im most mellow). Then she followed up by send...
They went and changed the title of this post over at TheLoop 21, but the original title was "Finding a Good Man is the Biggest Policy Issue Facing Black Women." Somebody must have warned them...
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