Jennifer Buck is having a hell of a week. Her book Bad and Boujee: Toward a Trap Feminist Theology, released this past March, is being… — Jennifer Buck is having a hell of a week. Her book Bad and Boujee: Toward a Trap Feminist Theology, released this past March, is being dragged through the proverbial mud across the internet. But not without reason. You see, Jennifer is White. Her book is about a subset of Black…

By now, we have all heard about that incident… — By now, we have all heard about that incident… During this year’s Academy Awards televised show, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock after Rock made an insensitive joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss. The altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock, two beloved men not just in Black Culture but…

It had been a long week for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. And it was only Wednesday. — It had been a long week for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. And it was only Wednesday. The Supreme Court nominee had been battered for hours since Monday of the week. What can only be imagined as nerve wracking anxiety of sitting before Members of Congress for up to 10 hours…

Venus’ face said it all. — Venus’s face said it all. It’s a face a lot of Black Women have made when the accomplishments we have made, often in spite of all of the obstacles we’ve faced are dashed by White Women while simultaneously illuminating their own accomplishments. So much for “sisterhood”. Jane Campion, while accepting…

Black joy has always been a tool of both resistance and healing. Unlike the common shared human experience of joy, Black Joy is unique to… — Black joy has always been a tool of both resistance and healing. Unlike the common shared human experience of joy, Black Joy is unique to Black people in that Black joy is interwoven within the Black experience. “When joy is Black, it is a radical demonstration of our humanity,” Tracey…

Something about this Black History Month calls for more than the same cycle of stories. After two solid years of a pandemic, during that… — Something about this Black History Month calls for more than the same cycle of stories. After two solid years of a pandemic, during that time experiencing the hope of a racial reckoning followed by hope dashed through politics as usual and empty gestures, to talk…

“…African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.” That is what was said by Mitch McConnell before he and… — “…African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.” That is what was said by Mitch McConnell before he and senate republicans filibustered both the Right to Vote and the John Lewis Voting rights act. McConnell made this remark during a news conference, before two Democrat…

The story of Emmett Till is heartbreaking. — The story of Emmett Till is heartbreaking. Growing up as a Black person, we hear these stories like poor Emmett’s and they are cautionary, illuminating a gut wrenching truth: people who hate you don’t care about how young you are. They will harm you just the same. These stories are…

Where were you on January 6th, 2021? — Where were you on January 6th, 2021? I remember it like I remember a handful of dates. The ones September 11th, 2001. I was holding my sleeping daughter, still recovering from birth, thought I was watching the certification of the election. That scene shifted into hours where I and many…