Featured Opinion Opinions Politics November 5, 2021 3 things Black voters learned and didn’t learn from Tuesday’s off-year elections As a general rule it’s not good to jump onto too much analysis of an election 24 hours after people
Entertainment Featured Film Opinion Opinions October 31, 2021 ‘Horror Noire’ is what you should be watching this Halloween I don’t know much about horror films despite growing up in the ’80s and 90s when the genre was having
Entertainment Featured Opinion Opinions Television October 7, 2021 Netflix’s ‘On My Block’ is ‘This is Us’ for the rest of us It’s almost impossible to describe On My Block to anyone who hasn’t already a huge fan heading into the show’s final Netflix
Entertainment Featured Opinion Opinions August 20, 2021 Disney+’s ‘What if T’Challa became a star-lord?’ is a repudiation of mediocre white men In case you haven’t heard, Disney+ — the raging behemoth of home streaming services — has launched a new animated
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics August 4, 2021 Why Nina Turner, the real ‘establishment,’ lost Ohio Democratic primary race The conventional wisdom about the Ohio 11th congressional district Democratic primary was always wrong. After Marcia Fudge vacated the seat to
Entertainment Featured Film Opinion Opinions July 16, 2021 Disney+’s Loki is the Black Lives Matter story we didn’t know we needed Every once in a while Disney shocks viewers with some unintentionally extra-Black revolutionary messaging in their movies and TV shows.
Entertainment Featured Opinion Opinions July 1, 2021 Bill Cosby is not your father and never was I was not surprised when Bill Cosby was released from jail this week after having only served two years for
Featured Opinions June 9, 2021 ‘The Underground Railroad’ has strong performances, but fails to deliver How do you make slavery boring ? Despite strong performances, Barry Jenkin‘s The Underground Railroad is plodding and rudderless. The
Featured Opinion Opinions May 25, 2021 Don’t let the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder be an excuse to ignore history Last week, my editor asked me if I wanted to do an essay for the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s
Entertainment Featured Film Opinion Opinions May 13, 2021 Regina King to direct ‘Bitter Root’ — Jump on the bandwagon before it gets full There’s always something special about being down with something before it goes mainstream. Remember how you felt way back in
Featured Opinion Opinions April 29, 2021 Decertify the Police: As states wrestle with police brutality, one solution was there all along Let’s play a game we all learned as kids: One of these things is not like the other. Here are three
Featured Media Opinion Opinions April 7, 2021 Remembering Legal Analyst Midwin Charles: A life well lived, cut too short One of the more morbid parts of the journalism business is the process of writing obituaries. Oftentimes, for older celebrities
Featured Opinions April 6, 2021 What’s an NFT? Erika Alexander is using it to urge Black creative control In America, Black people are always getting robbed. First, we were stolen from various nations in Africa (yes, POWs traded
Black Business Business Featured Opinion Opinions April 2, 2021 New York legalizes marijuana and Jay-Z prepares for the takeover Drug legalization, like gay marriage, internet gambling and paying college athletes, is one of those issues that if not already legal
Featured Opinion Opinions February 19, 2021 No President Biden, interracial couples on TV doesn’t make America any less racist On Wednesday, President Joe Biden held a town hall on CNN where he shared many of this thoughts about how to rescue
Featured Opinion Opinions Sports February 5, 2021 Brett Favre needs to stop counting NFL star DeShaun Watson’s coins You don’t have to know a lot about NFL quarterback DeShaun Watson, or the Houston Texans — or even the
Featured News Opinion Opinions January 15, 2021 Capitol officer Eugene Goodman must not fade into history — it’s happened before Once upon a time, there was a Black security guard who saved American Democracy. His quick thinking and eye for
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics January 11, 2021 ‘That white boy didn’t lose’: Ossoff’s revenge with a little help from Warnock “I’ve got the title for your next article!” That was the first text I saw after my flight landed in
Entertainment Featured Opinion Opinions January 4, 2021 ‘Wonder Woman’ was DC’s best stab at a superhero film, and still managed to screw it up The box office for Wonder Woman 1984 dropped a massive 67% from the first to the second weekend, which means
Featured Opinion Opinions Sports January 1, 2021 Booger McFarland and the rise of the anti-Black scold in sports Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A professional athlete with a zillion-dollar contract who’s barely old enough to rent a
