Boycott Arizona
Last week, I had the distinct honor of attending a dramatic reading, poetry slam and awards ceremony for the Marel Brown Creative Writing Program, an...
Real Friends Don't Call Friends "The Maid"
Miss Millie: You kids are so clean. You wanna come work for me? Be my maid?Sophia: Hell no. from The Color Purple These lines, and...
To Hell With Marriage Vows
I’ve been itching to write about all this cheating husband mess running all up and through Hollywood, but my girl/co-author Mitzi of the hysterical Mitzi...
"Pimp" Twitter Feud Between Demi Moore and Kim Kardashian Got Me Thinking…
Full disclosure: I’m no fan of Kim Kardashian anyway. I mean, seriously? She got famous from making an uninspired, yawn-of-a-p-oRn tape with Brandy’s little brother....
Black Teen Girls
Google “black teen girls.” Go ahead I triple dog dare you. But don't do it while your babies are standing by your side. Because if...
The Hell? Junior Condoms for Junior
The thing is, I get it: I understand the logic behind wanting to make sure that sexually-active boys protect themselves and their partners from disease...
Equal Pay For Moms NOW
She'd called me into her office, this lady boss of mine, newly charged with running what was then the 6th-largest newspaper in the country. Honestly,...
All Kinds of Wrong: Padded Training Bras For 10-Year-Olds
When I was about 12, I probably single-handedly doubled my family’s toilet tissue budget with all the wads I stuffed down in my tank tops...
John Mayer, the Biggest Loser
It’s not that John Mayer has a preference for white girls. Or even that the guitarist/singer said it out loud in a Playboy interview, no...
Terror on the Pole
By MALAKA GYEKYE I'm really hoping to go to Ghana this summer with the girls. I'm in the midst of looking for a Twi teacher...
