***NO SPOILERS!!!*** This Thursday marked the premiere of Black Panther, a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Black Panther. Black Panther is directed by Ryan Coogler from a screenplay by him and Joe Robert Cole, and stars Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa / Black Panther, alongside Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela […]
Throughout history, White men have committed some of the worst, heinous, atrocious crimes against humanity. From the horrors of slavery, countless wars, the Holocaust, lynchings, and Jim Crow (just to name a few), White men have been at the helm. White men have invaded and devastated entire continents. […]
Recently an article was published on PageSix entitled, These Men Forgot to Wear Their Times Up Lapel Pin to the SAG’s as if they were finished with their support for the recent shaking up of Hollywood that demands women equality. Is this really an issue? Because some male […]
Women’s March Louisville, KY January 21, 2018 James Baldwin once said, “Artists are here to disturb the peace.” So, today, I am just doing my job. I do not stand here to entertain you. Every time that I stand at a microphone I am speaking to shake this […]
Monday, January 15, 2018, marks the birthdate and a day that many in the nation will observe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the dedication and sacrifices he made as a civil rights activist. I will not use this blog to detail the important and honorable aspects of […]
Author and poet Maya Angelou once said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” This is a belief that I have held for years and one that often comes to mind when I read the latest racist, homophobic or sexist comments made by […]
FULL ARTICLE AT COSMOPOLITAN.COM: Ivanka Trump’s Oprah Winfrey Tweet Is a Nauseating Display of White Feminism ***** On Sunday night, at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, as Oprah Winfrey came to the stage to accept the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement, we all wondered what Oprah would […]
The Merriam- Webster Dictionary defines the word collision as the coming together of two or more things with such force that both or all are damaged, or their progress is severely impeded. On the E! Entertainment Golden Globes red carpet Tarana Burke responded about the #metoo movement as […]
Recently I stayed at a hotel, and as I was going down to the lobby from the fifth floor a young man entered, and we immediately begin the elevator etiquette dance. I asked him which level he needed, and he replied, “The lobby.” I smiled and then pressed […]
In January 2017, my blog begin with a critique of the Women’s March, a march that was heavily and primarily attended by White women in knitted pink pussycat hats as if we had forgotten that indeed 53% of White women that voted, voted for Donald Trump. As I […]
