Lauryn Hill: Pregnant Again, & Killing Bitches Softly
So Lauryn Hill announced recently that she is currently pregnant with her sixth child. Yep, way to go Lauryn!!! But it would seem that this…
Single Black Women
Rutgers University Pays “Snooki” $32,000 for Appearance, Toni Morrison, Not So Much
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi from ‘Jersey Shore’ spoke at Rutgers University and told students to “study hard, but party harder,” and got paid $32,000 to do so.…
Jailed Akron Mom, Kelly Williams-Bolar Exclusive Interview From Jail [VIDEO]
(H/T @AllAboutRace) Spoke about this travesty of justice yesterday; there’s also a featured also in that post. She still sits in jail serving her…
Single Black Mother Jailed for Sending Her Kids to “Better” School District [UPDATE]
(Updated: 01/25/11 @ 4:30PM) We often hear these crazy stories involving parents and children, and as is often the case, we walk away from such…
Separate But Comparable?: A Response to VH1’s New Show Being Questioned as the Black “Sex and the City”
In 1896, Homer Plessey–a “Negro” who could pass as white–refused to leave the “whites only” designated cart, resulting in the infamous Plessey v. Ferguson decision.…
Single Black Male in Search Of… (Or, Where Are All the “Good” Black Women?)
By Tracy Renee Jones I have this Black male guy friend. He just landed on the opposite side of 30 and finds himself single. Very…
No Wedding, No Womb: DICK, DUDES, & DECISIONS [#NWNW]
By Tracy Renee Jones I don’t know what to think at this point. Is #NWNW… No Willie, No Worries? No Way, No Wood? No Wedding,…
Why I’m Not Mad at Essence Hiring a White Woman
By Seattle Slim You see the pictures above and you wonder… Really? Now people are mad? Apparently, Essence (and if you had the Janet Jackson…
Breathe, Damnit! (The Single Black Woman Blues)
[Editor’s Note: A longtime reader and friend of mine, Cody Williams, wrote the following piece; and, I had to share it you, with his blessings…
Single black women, forget dating men outside of your race; skip that and go directly to animals, or go gay
OK, so yeah, I see you giving me the laser-beam side-eye right about now after reading that title. But follow me on this one and…