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What About Our Daughters
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For, By and About Black Women
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Bowing Out of the Black Communitys Reindeer Games:XXL Mag, Vanessa Satten, and Too Short

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...

17 h ago

Cultural Monoxide Poisoning: Why You Should Thank Chris Brown’s Repulsive Fans

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...

2 days ago

Whitney Houston Was Supposed to Make a Comeback...Dead at 48.

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...

4 days ago

Terrance Howard: Black Women Are Antiquated, White Women Represent Progress:Your Red Tails Open Thr...

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...

22 jan 12

Yeah, We Could Talk About Red Tails, but Lets Talk About 64,000 Black Women Who Are Missing

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...

20 jan 12

CONFIRMED: Jazmine Sullivan EDITED OUT of Red Tails- TOLDJA SO!

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...

18 jan 12

Robin Thicke Trashes Black Women in Lame Attempt to Make ESSENCE Cover: When MESSENCE-heads Come Ho...

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.

18 jan 12

"Noncooperati on with Evil is as Much a Moral Obligation as Cooperation with Good" - MLK.. a...

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.    ...

16 jan 12

Um So Why Am I Supposed to go See "Red Tails"? Are There Any Black Women in this Movie?

 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...

13 jan 12

"Christina Whatley", Cum Laude Graduate from Spelman College, Wants You To Know.

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. ...

11 jan 12

"When Relinquishing Your Womb Goes Wrong":Nojma Muhammad And Why Everyone Shouldnt Have Acc...

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...

09 jan 12

NPR Wonders Why So many Teenage Girls Support Violent Men like Chris Brown

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...

07 jan 12

Happy Halloween...Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year- See you in 2012

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...

31 oct 11

Making Goliath Bleed: Allstate Creates "Genarlow Wilson" Rule in Public Rebuke of Tom Joyner

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 ...

28 oct 11

Oprahs Lifeclass w. Iyanla: "Your Crown Has Already Been Paid For-Put it on Your head"

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...

28 oct 11

Allstate Says Were Lying... But they dont know all the "Facts"

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 ...

27 oct 11

Anybody Else Heard Back From Allstate After 9 Days? Insurance Company With No "Investigator s...

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...

26 oct 11

State Farm vs. Allstate on the Exploitation and Degradation of Black Women and Girls

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...

24 oct 11 1 person likes this

Iyanla and Oprah Back Together Again, And Its Pretty Good: Oprahs Life Class Letting Go of Anger

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...

21 oct 11

Black Twitter Puts Their Hatred of Young Black Girls on Full Display With "Amber Cole" Hash...

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 ...

19 oct 11

Allstate and Tom Joyner Indoctrinating Young Black Children to Revere Sexual Predators?: Genarlow W...

"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...

17 oct 11 1 person likes this

Black Folks Dont.... Do Yoga?

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...

14 oct 11

Lifetime to Remake "Steel Magnolias" With and All-Black Cast -"The Help" Effect

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...

12 oct 11

Awkward Black Girl Creator Issa Rae on CNN

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 ...

10 oct 11

ESSENCEs Abiola Abrama does Damage Control for ANOTHER Black-Woman-Hatin g Bigot:Isaiah Mustafa

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...

07 oct 11

What About Our Daughters Movie Making Weekend... Because We Cant Do Worse than THIS!

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. ...

07 oct 11

Thank You Steve Jobs- "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are ...

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...

06 oct 11

New Dating Rules for Black Women: Learn to Blog, Blog Better

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...

05 oct 11

Are Black Girls Unimportant?: PBS, Kellogg Foundation and Tavis Smileys "Too Important to Fail&...

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...

03 oct 11

Keli Goff, The Loop 21 and Congresswoman Fredrica Wilson are Idiots: Who Wants to Run For Congress?

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...

30 sep 11

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