As a teacher at a charter school who wakes up at 4:20 am and leaves work at 5:30 pm just to go home and put in 3 to 4 more hours of lesson planning and parent phone calls, I admire anyone who is wi…

When some of the prominent black female recording artists of our day drop new singles, I tend to brace myself. I’m always anticipating the next time I will be called a “stupid hoe” or told to “bow …

While scrolling down my sometimes-intellectually-stimulating-sometimes-ratchet news feed on Facebook, I came across a picture that I have seen versions of many a time.Aside from the fact that “curv…

Dear Laurin Compton and Lauren Cofield, I am writing this letter to the both of you because I think you ladies have done something that many young college women and men have wanted to do but felt t…