Unless you’ve been spending a lot of quality time sitting in your dark bedroom closet weeping into your dirty underwear, you couldn’t helped to have not heard about the recent Netflix series ‘Making a Murderer‘. Now, before I get started…
I love political discussion, and one of things that frustrates me the most is when people hoping to reach a shared goal can’t find ways to work together to achieve it. I do a lot of writing on a blog…
You know, as a Black person, I think we all share a collective point of view about what is and is not necessarily an opportunity. This is especially true when it comes to business and white folks interest in what…
I swear you can’t make this shit up!! Detroit Councilman George Cushingberry, Jr has one set of huge balls, though its possible that his increased gonads come at the expense of having a pea brain. How else does one explain…
TMZ has reported the death of Josh Marks, a very memorable contestant on Master Chef. I was so sorry to see this headline run past my news feed this morning. It seems like something is causing our mentally volatile to…
I understood what gentrification was long before I learned the definition in college. It didn’t take a loan from Sallie Mae for me to notice the deterioration of my neighborhood to the point of it resembling a third world country.…
Kids have a certain type of freedom that seems to get erased as they grow into adults. As they mature, the seriousness of this right of passage is often marked by the morphing into a more acceptable version that each…
For the life of me I don’t know why I subscribed to the RSS stream of my home town’s local paper. Maybe it was some displaced feeling of nostalgia that caused me to think the small publication, that has since been…
Arielle Loren is a wonderful writer, culture critique and friend. She’s also the creator of cutting edge digital media that breaks the barrier of our current standards of acceptance when it comes to Blacks, sexuality and feminism. CORSET is the go-to magazine…
Looking through the current media available to the African American/Urban audience one could easily come to the conclusion that all Black women are heterosexual, church going, and desperate for marriage. On a recent article I addressed the impact of gender orientation,…