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Earlier I went over why it's pointless to worry about "mouthpiece" and focus on the real fundamental question of getting or not getting sex. To go further, philosophically, we should consider gossip and it's effects on the black psyche and culture. It encourages frivolous and pointless...

Before y'all sharpen the pitchforks, hear me out I'm getting ready to move from Miami to Alabama for college. Since I am an obedient child of God and therefore adhere to biblical scripture, I am waiting to engage in sexual intercourse until I meet that special girl for me and we achieve...

0. By KATE SAMUELSON The multi-Grammy-award-winning artist Missy Elliott was just named Essence’s Black Women in Music honor for 2018. The Get Ur Freak On and Work It singer, who has collaborated with music icons including Timbaland and Pharrell, will receive the prestigious honor on Jan. 25...

Burke got it right when she created the movement more than a decade ago, but an almost all white, and mostly male, editorial team didn’t see fit to place her on the cover. By Sheryl Estrada / December 11, 2017 TIME magazine, which named the “Silence Breakers” of the #MeToo social movement as...

This was one of many responses I saw online from the faux woke crowd on twitter and facebook. Let me state right off the bat that I have no issue with Meghan Markle. In fact, this has absolutely nothing to do with her personally. I think it's no ones business who black men or black women marry...

Journii Perkins yawns as her grandmother Cheryl Givens-Perkins brushes sister Camille's hair as they get ready for church. By ANN M. SIMMONS Three weeks after Cassaundra Lynn Perkins gave birth to premature twins, she returned to the hospital, feeling unwell. She phoned her mother from her...

Ayanna James, costume designer for HBO's "Insecure," talks about her fashion inspirations for the hit comedy series and where she shops for Issa Rae, Yvonne Orji and the show's other cast members. by: Leigh-Ann Jackson Fans who’ve found themselves Googling Issa’s “A Different World” tribute...

Treva Lindsey's new book explores the details of Washington, D.C.'s unique status as a hotbed of cultural and political activism by Black Women in D.C. in the late 1800's and early 1900's-- a time when both gender and racial roles were quickly shifting...

Nancy Buirski’s documentary film “The Rape of Recy Taylor” reconstructs events from the abduction and sexual assault, in 1944, of a young black woman in rural Alabama By Richard Brody With Nancy Buirski’s documentary “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” which is screening at the New York Film Festival...

Wasn't really publicized but spreading the word: March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women will converge in D.C. this weekend On September 30, 2017 Black women in all their diversity will march on the National Mall and the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. to denounce the...

We all care about the community right? The epidemic of deadbeat dads is kinda getting better from its peak in the 90s, but it's still at atrocious levels. As a result, these fatherless children are responsible for the majority of the crimes being committed in the inner city, the teenage...

In watching this show called Nightlife on YouTube. This dude has been "dating" a girl for 6 months. Tricking all of his club money off and doing shady shyt to buy her stuff. :russ: I see why y'all none p*ssy getting nikkas would rather just pay for the p*ssy. shyt I'd rather do than then trick...

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Black women in Texas are dying with frightening frequency after childbirth — at a rate up to nearly three times higher than that of white women. And no one has figured out why. In a state with the worst overall maternal mortality in the nation, the Texas legislature opened a special session...

Black women in Texas are dying with frightening frequency after childbirth — at a rate up to nearly three times higher than that of white women. And no one has figured out why. In a state with the worst overall maternal mortality in the nation, the Texas legislature opened a special session...

Racism is fueling a national health crisis. After she lost her son, Tonda Thompson dreamed of a baby in a washing machine. She’d stuffed in dirty clothes and closed the door. The lock clicked shut. Water rushed in. Then she saw him, floating behind the glass. Frantic, she jabbed at a keypad on...

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An astoundingly retarded opinion piece I found written by a white, gay male about black women.... "Yet here’s what else Mannie overlooks in her full-frontal assault: White gay men as a group could be the truest friends black women can have in American society. No alliance is perfect, but this...

You see comments from black women all over social media on how certain black artists put black women in their videos.. and as a result these artist love black women, black beauty, are about black love etc. But many artists don't have the power nor choose which girls appear in their videos. It's...

:patrice: I understand where he's coming from as far as the "Hoteps" are concerned and the truth that some Black men may have an unwillingness to rally behind Black women/gays. My concern lays more on the idea that dude suggests toward the middle, that women and gays are more so the faces/at...