by Guest Contributor Marisol LeBron, originally published at Post Pomo Nuyorican Homo
Last year Puerto Rican artist Miguel Luciano created a pair of Nike Air Force Ones with the image of Filiberto Ojeda Rios, head of the Puerto Rican Indepencence group Los Macheteros.

by Guest Contributor M. Dot, originally published at Model Minority

Zane sells because her fiction allows Black women to be sexual in a culture that refuses to acknowledge that we are sexual, a culture that calls us hos if are so inclined to be sexual, talk about sex, or even look like we are human and […]

by Guest Contributor Merq

They are proud of their ignorance.
They equate getting an education to “acting white.”
Inner-city students have to decide between being smart and being “cool.”
I’m sure you’ve read at least one of the above statements at some point over the course of the last five years. Like the “down low” frenzy […]

by Guest Contributor Danielle Belton, originally published at The Black Snob

“She needs to quit.”
That’s how the discussion got kicked off on One Drop Rule’s message board July 2nd. The person accused of needing to cease and desist was CNN reporter Soledad O’Brien who spent the past year working on a documentary for the cable news […]

by Latoya Peterson

I have been interested to watch how the Black in America project has been received around the blogosphere. It was an eighteen-month project that many think should have been thought about a bit more. A summary of the series is here.
Tariq Nelson provides an interesting perspective on why he isn’t annoyed:
Last night […]

I watched this clip and had just one thought:

Does Wendi Williams have to cut a bitch?
Part 1:

Part 2:

You can read the recap here.

by Guest Contributor Cheryl Lynn, originally published at Digital Femme

Long ago, when I was much younger than I am today, my aunt purchased a VHS tape of cartoons for my cousins and I to watch. She quickly removed the plastic wrapper, slammed the cassette into the VCR, and promptly left the room in order to […]

by Guest Contributor Jafari Sinclaire Allen

Congratulations, Michael Brewer.
I have never walked across the stage on the Morehouse College campus green to receive my degree. On the first day of our indoctrination in 1986, who would have thought I would end up as one of those missing in action four years later? The upperclassman speaking prophesized: […]

by Latoya Peterson

Last weekend, while channel surfing, I was flying through my channel line up when my remote paused on a program I had heard about for quite some time - Meeting David Wilson.
The MSNBC site describes the documentary:
David Wilson was a 28-year-old African-American man from Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in a tough, […]

by Guest Contributor AJ Plaid, originally published at The Cruel Secretary

By now, you’ve seen the latest New Yorker cover, with the Obamas garbed in the gear of the latest fear-mongering Americans’ wet dream.
Of course, people at Michelle Obama Watch, Daily Kos, Politico, and other blogs have expressed rightful and righteous outrage over […]

by Guest Contributor Sewere
I grew up in a country where despite the fact that the vast majority of people there are black folks, there are serious limitations to interactions between people from different ethnic groups.
These differences are particularly pronounced when it comes to who you decide to pair with (dating or marriage). As the […]

by Guest Contributor Joe R. Feagin, originally published at Racism Review

There seems to be no end to mocking of the language and speech of people of color by whites. A Los Angeles Times article recounts some mocking of the names of black high school students, likely from a white high school student:
Administrators at Charter Oak […]

by Guest Contributor M. Dot, originally published at Model Minority

These days and times are trife for Black women. You will rarely hear me speak from the stance of victim-hood, as I try my hardest to keep agency on mines.
My rationale is that as long as you are reactionary, someone else will always be setting your […]

Spotted this on the La Chola blog:
*The statement below was forwarded to me by friend, colleague and comrade William Jelani Cobb. Please feel free to add your name to the statement and to forward it to others.*
The Online Petition (currently holding 377 signatures)
–Mark Anthony Neal

*Statement of Black Men Against the Exploitation of Black Women*
Six […]

by Special Correspondent Nadra Kareem

The club. The street. The grocery store.
These are the places good black men can be found, according to the group of black male panelists featured on the “Tyra Show” May 23. I saw a clip of the show rather than the entire program, but the segment I did see (found below) […]