With my birthday coming up and a nationwide black history celebration in full swing, it’s probably no surprise that February is my favorite month.
Sure, there’s the abbreviated time span and less-than-pleasant temperature range, but I find it just … Read the rest
Considering the endless inequities facing women today — sexualized beauty standards, discrepancies in medical care costs and victimization via physical abuse and on-the-job harassment — it perplexes me that many of us continue to concentrate high levels of energy … Read the rest
A couple of years ago, I was enduring what many journalists consider a form of torture: the conference call interview.
On the other end of the phone was the multi-talented rapper and actress Queen Latifah, who was speaking with … Read the rest
Hey, Chocolate Mama again….
……if those “I don’t see racism, so it doesn’t happen” morons don’t work your nerves, those selective-memory-having and sexist anti-birth-control jack@$$es will: here are not one, but TWO unenlightened letters I received from folks who felt … Read the rest
Back in the early 1990s, Tupac Shakur revealed his social consciousness with a track called “Brenda’s Got a Baby.”
When a peer shrugs off the news of the pregnancy by saying: “That’s not our problem, that’s up to Brenda’s family,” … Read the rest
