Editorial Staff

National Organization for Marriage’s Dirty T...

Is NOM using an age-old strategy?...
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Why Media Representations of Black Women Still Mat...

When black women are consistently portrayed in the media as being overweight (to an even greater extent than what they actually are), as Mammy, as Sap...
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The Trouble with DBR Black Women: In Life and Disc...

There was NEVER a topic harder to discuss among those who champion the rights of black women or relating to one another as black women. I think this o...
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Newsflash: Good Black Men Definitely Exist! Doesn&...

Black men don't heed that "black love" talk. You know it, I know it, and deep down the NBAB crowd knows it as well. They can grumble, holler, and stom...
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Should You Have to ‘Renew’ Your Marria...

What the heck is a "temporary marriage?" Jamila explains....
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If I Prioritize Getting Married, Will That Make Me...

It's become cool to feign disinterest in getting married. I can't count how many interviews I've read in magazines where some Hollywood starlet claims...
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Heart of White Knighting: Looking for “Black...

The reason some black women are so absolutely desperate to defend and uphold DBR black men at their own expense and that of other black women is the n...
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Hold Up! Not ALL Asian Women Are Getting Hitched A...

Have you heard of the term, "leftover women?" hmmm.......
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Why Colorism Is The Devil That Wont Die

For white people, not allowing people of clearly mixed heritage to identify as white worked out well. For black people, hypodescent has been a disaste...
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The Black Woman’s Bill of Rights: Boundarie...

Do you have personal boundaries? Do you have a set of rules for what is required of a person to pass beyond your boundaries? If the answer is no, stop...
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Should Mitt and Rick Get on the Same Ticket?

Could a hard-core conservative and a namby-pamby conservative be a contender for Obama?...
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Shutting Up About Black Men (Part 1)

Why does the subject of black men keep coming into the conversation??...
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¿ No hablas español, Señor Rick Santorum ...

Why is Rick Santorum telling Puerto Ricans they shouldn't speak their NATIVE language in their NATIVE country?!...
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Iran and North Korea: A Tale of Two (Would-be) Nuc...

Could these two crazies end all of us?...
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