Colorism in African American Culture: If You’re Black, Get Back!
No rap lyric has incited Black women to chorus the way the beginning of Lil Wayne’s verse in Every Girl In The World, in which he expresses…
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So Obama Had a “Hip Hop BBQ” & Didn’t Create One Job, Huh?
So now that a U.S default on its debt has been averted, leaving working poor folk holding the shitty end of the stick as usual,…
Is Gay the New Black?
The question of the hour that everyone seems to be asking, from some Prop 8 white supremacists to Queen Latifah on VH1’s “Single Ladies.” Is…
Where’s the School Spirit in “Wigger Day” at Red Wing High School?
Back in 1090, a few weeks after moving to southern Indiana, I was floored when I learned that there was a celebration called Nigger Day.…
New Ultimate Spider-Man is Half-black, Half-latino!
Chevere Marvel has made an impressive decision to shake things up a little bit, and add a little sabor to its Ultimate Spider-Man comic series.…
Police State: Racial Profiling, The Po-Po, & Me
The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.– James Baldwin, The Nation, 7/11/66 More…
I Used to Love Him: Common’s “Ghetto Dreams”
Last week, blogger Necole Bitchie posted rapper Common’s new song “Ghetto Dreams” that was quite a deviation from the image he’s purveyed in the past.…