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…
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…
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” Madeleine Albright How many times have you heard another woman say: “I just don’t get along with other women.” “I don’t have any female friends.” Or the kicker, “I just don’t trust b*tches!” Throughout my life I’ve heard every iteration of my…
That talk with your daughter about how she got here? Yeah, not the most anticipated of discussions. But the chat must happen, and it generally does, through three prisms. One is the abstinence-only approach. Discourage any sexual behavior short of marriage and espouse the virtue of patience for that “right one.” There would be noble…
Recently word got out that, quite possibly, superstar Janet Jackson has quit show business, converted to Islam and with her billionaire husband at her side, is done. When I mean done, I mean she’s retired from the rat race, from the expectations of others, from anyone being in her business, from dealing with folks she doesn’t want…
K. Michelle, best known for fighting most of her cast mates on Vh1’s Love & Hip Hop Atlanta told Joi-Marie McKenzie of ABC News Radio Online that this may be her last season on the show, but not her last season on reality TV. She alluded to possibly joining the New York cast of the…
I’ve always liked DMX’s persona. That, of course, comes with some qualifiers. I had to ignore the violent and misogynistic imagery in most of his lyrics, which I was much more willing to do in X’s heyday a decade ago, than now. I liked his music, like it still, for the growling voice over Swizz…
“The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman, the most unprotected person in America is the Black woman, the most neglected person in America is the Black woman.” – Malcolm X When the laser sharp backlash finally grew too intense to ignore, Reebok severed ties with spokesperson Rick Ross for his failure to…
Big week in conservative outreach to the black community! Rand Paul went to the Harvard of historical black colleges – Howard University – to school a roomful of already educated black students on how President Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and that all of the NAACP’s founders were Republicans. (Some were also white! And really light-skinned Negroes!!! And Ida B. Wells!!!!) Of course, all the students (and me and…
A few years ago I dated a tall, dark, and handsome man with a witty sense of humor, great taste in music, and excellent benefits. What more could a gal ask for? One night, during one of our marathon phone sessions, I came to the conclusion that this wasn’t just some unremarkable summer fling to…
