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Dear Chris Brown, Mentally Ill Black Women Need Counseling, Not A Good Lay: An Open Letter
By Nicole Moore Dear Chris Brown: When you returned home on Wednesday, May 6th I know you surely had a WTF moment. Discovering that your home was broken into, seeing your cars vandalized and finding a naked woman, whom you … Continue reading
Dealing With Cops: The Latest How-To Book
By Brennan DuBose Attorney Eric Broyles has one goal: “I want to keep black men and boys alive.” “Encounters With Police: A Black Man’s Guide to Survival,” a book written by Broyles and his colleague of 20 years, veteran police … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian O. Jackson, black men, Black Women, book, dealing with police, Eric C. Broyles, literature, police stops
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Documentary Blows Open Serial Killer’s 25-Year Spree of Killing Black Women and a Shocking Lack of Interest in Catching Him
By Kali Holloway By the mid-1980s, the Los Angeles Police Department knew there was a prolific serial killer operating in the South Central section of the city. His victims, like most of the residents of the area, were overwhelmingly African … Continue reading
Black Women and the Body Police
By Ayana Byrd When “12 Years a Slave” was released in October, Time magazine wanted to go that extra step. Instead of a review or a 300-word treatise on how this was the hardest and the best film they had … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Black people, Black Women, Body Image, Lily Allen, Miley Cyrus, Solomon Northup, time
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Getting A Loan Is Just As Easy For African-American Females As White Males, Study Shows
Black borrowers have faced higher hurdles to getting loans, even before the Great Recession’s infamous credit crunch. But one subsection of the community has managed to evade financial institutions’ discriminatory practices, a new study from the University of Iowa shows. … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Women, economy, Great Recession, loans, money, Perception, United States, White Males
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Why I Don’t Sleep With White Guys
By Eternity E. Martis They say nothing comes without a price. However, in the case of being one of the only coloured girls in my city, nothing comes without a race. I live in a predominately white city. Not by … Continue reading
Dark-skinned and plus-sized: The real Rachel Jeantel story
By Brittney Cooper Trayvon Martin’s trial might be intriguing, fascinating cultural theater to some. To me, it is more akin to a cultural trauma: a continual reminder of how unsafe all those young Black men that I love actually are as … Continue reading
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Tagged black, Black Women, George Zimmerman, plus-size, race, Rachel Jeantel, Testimony, Trayvon Martin, twitter
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Beauty May Be In Eye of Beholder But Eyes See What Culture Socializes
Dr. Lyubansky writes a good rebuttal piece to the horrendous article by Satoshi Kanazawa on Psychology Today. Psychology Today took down Mr. Kanazawa’s article a few hours after it was originally posted due to the outrage (rightfully so) it caused. The problem I … Continue reading
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Selfies allow black women to say we are here, and we are beautiful
By Syreeta McFadden When others recognize you being present in a world of wonder, you feel the joy of existence. That’s why we take selfies. They are pixelated bits of confection to remind us that we are all interconnected, no … Continue reading →