Month: April 2015

The media is permeated with images of black female promiscuity, ass, ass, ass, being objectified by men, and violence. The overriding message is to devalue black womanhood…and more ass. There are times when Black women in America are lost. There are times when Black women in America don’t know who they are, so how do…

Not having TV pushes me to watch all sorts of things and for the past month I have been re-watching Hey Arnold! About 3 seasons in I started to really notice the uniqueness and nuances of the main characters. That cartoon was revolutionary in how they presented different types of people, socioeconomic classes, races, ages,…

Kenyan-born Director, Peres Owino, tackles the controversial fact that Africans and African-Americans are creating a division amongst us based on fear and misconception. The ground-breaking and compelling documentary, Bound: Africans vs. African Americans, was featured at the 23rd Annual Pan African Film Festival and follows two metaphorical brothers. One brother disappears and was never found,…

I remember growing up where skinny was in. Skinny was everything. If you had any curvature you were akin to an unwanted dog. My skin, my body, my hair, it was downplayed, degraded, sullied, and talked about with disdain. As a child I was the little girl with the big butt. I was sexually harassed…