Category: U.S.

I’m Going to Need Obama To Gentrify The White House

lmclemore23

President Barack Obama is nice guy. He is well mannered and usually takes the high road. But fuck all that. I’m going to need him to be on some n*gga shit, mixed with some white woman shit. As our ancestors would probably coin it, “The Corona” is here, and it’s real. Having a dumbass in the White House is all fun in games until, you know, it stops being all fun and games. So here is what needs to happen. We are going to need Obama to gentrify the White…

Mississippi mother of 4 loses everything in flood and is in desperate need of our help.

CJ Lawrence

I Had a friend and classmate from Tougaloo who is the mother of 4 children one being a very small infant daughter call me this morning. She and her family were victims of the flood last month. they were all left homeless, without clothing, and a car after the flooding last month. Their home was almost completely submerged by the waters. They are going to need a lot of help and support from us as a village as fema can not assist because no national disaster was declared and mema…

Kylie Jenner and the ‘Copyright Infringement’ of the Black Woman

jessicafrenshealove

By Frenshea Love I ain’t gone lie, when I first saw Kylie Jenner’s latest picture I was like, okkayy Beyonce.’  It wasn’t until I jumped deep into the comment section that I realized it was not Queen Bey. It was Kylie Jenner parading in her likeness.   Besides my usual distaste for the Kardashian clan, the picture further disturbed me. On Facebook, Maceo Cassell responded to Kylie’s picture with this collage and wrote, “If copyright infringement was a person.” Beneath the layer of comedy, Cassell’s remark illustrates the assault against…

On their 15th Anniversary, FAMU Deltas Honor The Memory of Their Beloved Linesister in an Incredibly Touching Tribute

CJ Lawrence

The image came across my timeline, a photograph of a group of beautiful black women somewhere in what appeared to be a desert all dressed in white with camels both kneeling and standing around them. There was an undeniable regalness to the image – I was in the presence of black royalty. At first glance, I thought that I had seen an image like this many times before– of beautiful black professional millennial women gathering together abroad to celebrate life; but, the more I observed the picture the more something…