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An ode to Lathun’s ‘Freak It,’ a ’90s classic so good that City Girls and Usher brought it back as ‘Good Love’ and took me back to 1997

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A group of demonstrators holding up signs, with one reading "Forced birth is an act of violence"

Why, oh why, did the White House decide to disrespect abortion activists?

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Who could follow Joe Biden?

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Josh Hawley messed around and found out, or how to ‘professionally’ read someone who is playing in your face

OPINION: The Missouri senator got put in his place by U.C. Berkeley Professor Khiara Bridges during a Senate hearing on…
/ July 12, 2022
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

America’s founding fathers laid the framework for the cultural divisions we see today

The latest outrage in the culture war occurred when a visitor to Monticello was upset that Jefferson's history as an…
/ July 12, 2022
A gun and bullets on an American flag

It’s time to stop being in denial about gun violence

After the July Fourth mass shooting in Highland Park near Chicago, you just might think, “How many more times?”
/ July 11, 2022

There’s a good reason why some Black people don’t go to the doctor

There are a lot of good reasons why a lot of Black people don’t like going to the doctor. A…
/ July 11, 2022

Why is open carry only an issue when it comes to Black folks? 

A recent Los Angeles Times headline asked if California was “ready for more Black people to legally carry guns in…
/ July 11, 2022
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Need YouTube music to play in the car with kids while listening to trap music?  JoolsTV got you, fam

Bring the bounce, 808s and energy to your car with JoolsTV's trap nursery rhymes - the perfect YouTube music for…
/ July 10, 2022
A male mass shooter

The problem is men

There were 692 mass shootings last year and this year, we have had over 300 mass shootings, and the overwhelming…
/ July 9, 2022
Sign for Grambling State University

Grambling’s athletics department is the very definition of a ‘hot mess’

Grambling’s athletics department fits the very definition of a "hot mess" after firing the volleyball coach who cut the entire…
/ July 8, 2022

I think Omarion’s book publisher needs to put ‘Unbothered: The Power of Choosing Joy’ on the shelf, ya know, for a little while

Omarion, the former B2K frontman and watermelon aficionado’s alleged zen lifestyle is looking real flimsy these days.
/ July 8, 2022
A flag in recognition of Juneteenth is displayed

A lesson wholly lost: What 2 Independence Days mean for America

Two weeks ago our country celebrated Juneteenth. Earlier this week, our country celebrated the Fourth of July.
/ July 8, 2022

The disturbing link between slavery and the overturning of Roe v. Wade

In America, our law determines that some rights are so fundamental that they should not be left to the varied…
/ July 7, 2022
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., right, administers the Constitutional Oath to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Can Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson save the Supreme Court? (Hint: The answer is maybe)

The notion that the new justice can save the court is, of course, preposterous. But her presence on the court…
/ July 7, 2022