Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death is a sobering wake up call. Her death came at a time of immense upheaval in our country, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and a national reckoning with systemic racism.
Election 2020
By Frenshea Love, BWNC Black women have never entered the world without crossing an intersection. Race, class, gender, sexuality- Black women have always had to navigate social barriers like a deadly highway. These social barriers zooming toward us all at once. And Vice President Kamala Harris crossed them all. So, this moment is bittersweet because Looking at Kamala reminds me of all the debris that cluttered that already dangerous...
Today’s announcement that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the official President- and Vice President-Elect has brought with it waves of emotion across the country. This fifth day of post-vote tallying symbolizes a culmination of what so many of us have desired since 2016: A hope for a better future. While we celebrate this pivotal moment in the sociopolitical history of our country, we cannot (and should not) ignore...
Each election cycle Black folks are lectured to about voting. We're inundated with false generalizations about low voter turnout and we all know people who always want to talk about when the Popeyes chicken sandwich craze swept the nation last year, "Black folks stood in line for that sandwich but won't stand in line to vote," as if people of all racial groups don't like Popeyes...shut up.
America has always been a ghetto ass mess. Just a bunch of Life, Liberty, and Ghetto Shit since 1776. However, the last four years have been extremely ghetto. A ghetto ass president doing, saying and tweeting very ghetto things, including pardoning his ghetto ass, hoodrat ass friends. However, depending on if the pumpkin spice latte gang hold up their end of the bargain, the four year, meth induced extreme...
