A year after I first watched it—and a day after watching it again on HBO (which seems to have a networkwide mandate…

A song called “Top Off,” featuring Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Future and DJ Khaled, dropped at 6 a.m. Along with encouraging…

Today, East Liberty—a neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End—is a hypergentrified concentration of boutique hotels,…

Remember way, way, way, way, way back when Love & Hip Hop: New York was centered on Peter Gunz and his revolving…

Everyone has a story about the worst place they were forced to take a shit. Since I was taught that being black…

The search for the perfect slur for white people has been relentless, exhausting and mostly fruitless. There are…

Last August, as my wife and I and two of our friends biked through the Great Allegheny Passage in McKeesport, Pa., a…

Fifteen or so years ago, Oprah had a show where various celebrities offered their favorite sandwiches: what’s in…

The first paragraph of Brittney Cooper’s Eloquent Rage lets us know she’s not playing with or scared of you…

The pervasive mindlessness of white people—a dynamic stemming from the perpetual withdrawing from humanity required…

The most popular show on network television stars black people and is set in Pittsburgh, but I cannot bring myself…

On Feb. 11, 39-year-old Mark Daniels was shot and killed by Pittsburgh police officers after he allegedly shot at…

1. Pittsburgh potholes

Like everyone else, you were excited to see Black Panther. You’ve been waiting for it for years, got excited for the…

If “Don’t scare me like that, colonizer” wasn’t already enough to give Black Panther’s Shuri (depicted amazingly by…

Apparently, it’s hard out here for a “Make America great again” pimp. Since the election, there have been myriad…

So, Oprah Winfrey is (probably) not running for president. We have to make that clear. She is (more than likely) not…

Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for the film Black Panther.

It’s telling how fascinated Donald Trump and the people connected to him seem to be with the suspected sexual…

One of the few somewhat positive aspects of Donald Trump’s presidency (and really, Donald Trump’s entire stint as a…