In a perfect world, black people wouldn’t face incessant discrimination over our choice of dress, dialect,…
My mother called it “cruising for a bruising.” Some places refer to it as “begging for a butt-whipping.” In my South…
#LivingWhileBlack is tough. It seems that just by living our black-ass lives and minding our black-ass business, we…
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We live in a country where a black child was placed in handcuffs for bouncing a basketball. In a gym.
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Don’t look now, but #PoolPatrolPaul appears to have a Canadian cousin out here doing his mayonnaise lord’s work.
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Because I believe that many of America’s Great Value-brand people harbor an innate fear of African Americans, I am…
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It’s no secret that there’s a fear of a black planet. This fear is so pervasive, so insidious, that black people are…