Too Short Tosses Blame Over “Fatherly Advice” At XXL Editors
Rapper Too Short, who came under a hip hop feminist firestorm for giving explicit instructions to middle school boys on how to finger rape and...
Chris Brown’s Grammy Twitter Rant Shows He Still Doesn’t Get It.
After winning a 2012 Grammy Award for Best R&B album and making a triumphant return to the Grammy stage three years after the brutal 2009...
Finding True Love On Valentine’s Day {Digging In the MBB Crates}
This is the way it seemed to always work: A few weeks before Valentine’s Day, whatever loser I was dating at the time would break...
Who Turned Valentine’s Day Into an Elementary School Candy Bonanza?
Who authorized it so that our kids are lugging home a bag full of candy and a whole bunch of fairly meaningless, generic cards on Valentine's Day?
Too Short Is Too Outrageous in Advising Little Boys to Commit Sexual Assault
By NICK CHILES Outrage doesn’t begin to describe my reaction to the “advice” column by Too Short on the website of the hip hop magazine...
Whitney Houston Dies At 48—A Sad Farewell To An Icon We Absolutely Adore
My God—my heart is absolutely broken over the death of Whitney Houston. Just… broken. To consider that this songbird, this lead actress in some of...
Adele Puts Karl Lagerfeld In His Place—And This Curvy Black Woman Is Proud Of Her For Doing It
Adele, the British vocalist with the black soul singer pipes and a voluptuous body to match, is my hero today—not only because I adore her...
The American Obsession with Imprisonment is a National Shame—and a Parent’s Nightmare
For those outside of the community, it is hard to comprehend how much the specter of prison haunts black people, black men, and particularly black...
Loving My Milkshake & My Pearls: A #Flawless12 Celebration Of My Physical Self
Boy, I’ll tell you this much: That Chatterbox Christie’s #Flawless12 campaign really has me digging deep—a little deeper, I admit, than I was ready to...
For Teenagers, a “Graduated” Driver’s License Saves Lives—and Saves Parents from a Nervous Breakdown
By NICK CHILES The state of New Jersey is currently debating a bill that would create “graduated licenses” for teenagers, which add more safeguards and...
