Jonterri Gadson, WGA Captain and Emmy-nominated comedy writer for “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” has navigated quite a journey in film and television. From poetry to comedy to screenwriting, Gadson has worn many hats. She can now add to the
Two of the few redeeming qualities of social media are its ability to give voice to those in need of a platform and shine a light on issues previously hidden in darkness. Such is the outcome for full-figured feministas on
I can’t and won’t lie: I was afraid to visit Egypt. Televisions in my home stay locked on CNN and my husband’s beloved MSNBC (he has a love-hate relationship with Joy Reid, who’s affectionately called “Joy-Ann” in our home), and
It’s official. Wakanda is real and according to the Twitter account of Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. Airport, named after The Mecca’s first Black mayor, flights to the all-things-Black-and-wonderful utopia have already began departing Atlanta (because where else would they leave
It was love at first hashtag search between Restaurante Ponto Final and me. Having just booked a recent trip with a long layover, I sat up in bed one evening searching Instagram on my iPhone for images of Lisbon, Portugal.
For nearly two decades, Dubai has been portrayed as a veritable land of plenty by professional expats and jet-setters who flock to the desert oasis seeking opportunity, lavish lifestyle experiences and adult play in the ever-expanding seaside metropolis. When I
During a recent trip to Dubai, my husband, writer East Texas Bama, and I decided to take a breather from the bustling and most grandiose Emirates city. Like most visitors, we sought the suburban (only slightly less grandiose) desert shores
When Houston resident Amber J. Benoit met her husband Brandon, she was keeping a little secret. The Louisiana native and customer service representative was losing her hair. Well, there was more. She had a little crush on him and she was falling fast. But, she wondered, if she got the man, could he handle her secret?
Haitian-Jamaican writer and director Daheli Hall created Disney’s new show The Exchange: “When their study abroad program is cancelled, a teen girl suggests her classmates spend a week at each other’s houses.” At the center of the show is an
Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles and Simone Manuel stand as living, breathing, tossing, jumping, vaulting and spinning proof that there’s no magic behind Black skin that makes gathering Olympic gold look like a birthright. These sister gymnasts put in the work — hours and hours and then more hours of training and uncompromising drive to make it to the top. And who are these young women?
“One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science, and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that
“One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science, and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that
To these haters, and to those who came before to picket the Leslie Jones camp, I say as I’m sure Jones would in her brash way, “Step the f—k off.”
This list is dedicated to all of the young women I’ve taught at the collegiate level since 2001. Those who’ve struggled with their assaults in the light and in the dark. You mustn’t believe anything below. They will tell you, you wanted
Yesterday, beginning at about 8 a.m. African Americans from throughout the country exited Interstate 20 at Boulevard, made a left turn and descended upon Atlanta’s historical Grant Park to usher in House in the Park 2015, a house music extravaganza
A few months ago, I was peering out of my bedroom window as I chatted on the phone with writer Shelia Moses. I was being interviewed for her book Dark Girls (2014), a beautiful photo/essay collection of dark girls’ color-conscious
There was a time when not one month could go by without me slapping a full kit of white, creamy toxic hair relaxer on my innocent, brown and stressed out scalp. It was tiring, methodical work that made me a scientist,
Following a late night Facetime debate with my grandmother last night, I found myself on YouTube seeking snippets of artist Kanye West’s politically charged post-Hurricane Katrina 2005 pronouncement that sitting president “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” During a
