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Follow-Up to Good Hair: Still Being Mocked & Who Went To See It?

I know somebody actually paid money to see Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” MOCKumentary. The question is how did it fare? Did your curiosity take over and you simply had to go? The pre-release buzz was so great that even some black men went to see it – which of course tells me there was some [...]

Chris Rock Pulls A Steve Harvey: Stop Stealing From Black Women!

I knew it!!! Rock is being sued by filmmaker Regina Kimbell for copyright infringement for swiping her film My Nappy Roots with his insulting “make fun of black woman hair angst” rip-off. I hope she has a good lawyer. If he can’t get the case dismissed outright he’ll probably seek to settle it with a [...]

Black Women Hair Angst Should Not Be Open For Public Consumption

I could actually take the “Hair” out of the title of this post and leave it as is. Black women angst should NOT be open for public consumption!! I find these conversations to be challenging, painful and difficult. They require time and great care as we sort through things. The issue is they’re often full [...]

Studying African-American History is Vital For Our (Re)claiming It From the Culture Vultures

Will we be eulogizing the death of the “Negro” as we once knew ourselves? Every day a little bit of our heritage is being tossed on the garbage heap and mocked at as some of us walk – no run – away from our “Blackness”. We think we’re freeing ourselves from a life of [...]

President BJ

So Bill Clinton may have gone off script a little bit and slipped by his lukewarm support of Obama while on The View. As you know I said I have that show on permanent girlcott status for my sanity because the hosts have been in violation of objectivity. Later Clinton went on the Letterman and [...]