Did you ever think you could write a pretty good media critique about Lena Dunham’s critically-acclaimed, award-winning HBO show Girls if only you had the time and desire and florid prose? Well, today (or should I saw last Friday) was your lucky day. Your dad’s favorite former Los Angeles Laker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did it for…
You’d think by now people would have given up on offering their opinions on Rihanna and Chris Brown’s ”relationship.” Because grown people are going to do what grown people want to do. And quite possibly rub it in everyone’s faces at the same time. Rihanna has proven that she’s run out of fucks to give…
“Girls” received considerable flack for the first season’s treatment of race. Although the HBO series takes place in Brooklyn, New York, one of the most diverse boroughs in the most ethnically diverse city in the country, the characters are all lily-white. Lena Dunham, the show’s star, executive producer, writer and creator, told the crowd at…
When the first season of Girls premiered on HBO, Lena Dunham caught a lot of slack because of the lack of “color” in the cast. Although the series centered around young women living in Brooklyn, NY, diversity did not exist. In their version of Brooklyn, which happens to be a lot of people’s version of…
Black women and girls are often depicted negatively in the media. Whether we’re constantly told that our ability to marry is slim to none, or that we will contract every disease known to man, if you believe the media hype, it’s been a rough couple of years for black women. Thankfully, there are outlets such…
We’ve talked a lot about the HBO series “Girls” around these parts, so much so that many of you are tired of discussing it. But rock with me for a spell. After its debut, the web lit up with talk about the lack of diversity on the show, which follows four twenty-something friends as they…
