MTV’s Teen Mom Farrah Abraham recently dethroned Kim Kardashian in a record debut of her sex tape, “Backdoor Teen Mom” with Vivid Entertainment. In less than twelve hours, the 16 & Pregnant newly-minted porn star garnered 2 million views, crushing Kim K.’s 600,000 twelve-hour debut, proving that the strategic “sex tape for fame” move is alive and…
As controversy surrounding the now infamous Mountain Dew ad created by Odd Future front-man, Tyler, The Creator, gained in intensity, in large part due to my friend and colleague, Dr. Boyce Watkins, labeling it “the most racist ad in history,” the many varied and nuanced responses to it began to form their own separate story….
Dueling narratives surround Assata Shakur, a political figure who found herself returned to the national spotlight after the FBI officially added her to their Most Wanted Terrorists list on May 2, 2013. To mainstream media, Joanne Chesimard murdered a police officer and fled to Cuba to escape justice. A New York Times article on the…
It started with a work rotation in DC and ended with an affair. Bored and in a new city, she began casually seeing a co-worker. At first, their actions did not have any meaningful consequences. As two single people, they met up randomly at movie theaters, restaurants, and each other’s apartments, relishing in the fact…
Sexual promiscuity is sexual promiscuity. It’s not bad or good, negative or positive, and certainly not rated by socioeconomic class. It simply is what it is: a sexual behavior. While promiscuous sex has perks, it can definitely roll out consequences. Staying protected is essential, and remaining emotionally guarded is a must, unless you’re naturally polyamorous….
Guys often talk about ‘the friend zone’: a dreaded mythical place where they end up when a woman who’d they like to date (or, at the very least, sleep with) has only platonic eyes for them. However, many of us ladies have found ourselves in similar situations: pegged as ‘the homegirl’. As in “Man, Tasha,…
It was 1:30 in the afternoon but in my little corner of the world, it might as well have been 1:30 in the wee hours of the morning. I was wading through pages of content and research I’d compiled for a paper I was writing for African Aesthetics, a graduate class I needed to pull…
There was a moment last night during the latest episode of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta that further revealed how less and less the show cares about looking “real” and is about getting cool staged, stunt shots – like the kind you’d see in traditional, scripted television – to push the storyline. It involved a woman’s…
Many young people hate their jobs. Let me rephrase that. Many millenials who grew up being told their whole lives that “if they just try hard enough they could change the world” dislike the fact that after pouring years of sweat into countless semesters of college and endless “save-the-homeless” drives, they are only fetching coffee…
Listening to the radio yesterday, I heard DJ Khaled’s latest song, “No New Friends,” featuring our favorite go-to guy for hooks, Drake. I tried my best to listen with a musical ear (not possible), but I kept it on long enough to notice some things: (1) It was inspired by and uses a sample from Drake’s…
