Wrong Done Right: On the “May December” Film

They were wrong for this one. But, they did it right. You'll just want to give their piece of meat a hug, E-harmony account or audition for the next season of "The Bachelor." #MayDecember

Justice for Jelani Day

For a young black man in central Illinois plains to just go missing from his university didn't even make sense and almost didn't make any national noise. His mother changed that.

Sisters Jennifer and Jordan Turpin Give Testimony to Life

It is my privilege to salute Jennifer and Jordan Turpin, two young women who escaped and started over after a lifetime of the unimaginable. David and Louise Turpin raised their 13 children in secret squalor and tortuous rules, until, to save her siblings, Jordan found the courage at age 17 to leap into the world she'd never known.

I’m Only Watching Women Now

I'm blessed to be a woman in these times when so many women before me have resisted to overturn age discrimination and racist beauty standards that left so many of us out of range.

“You are not gonna silence me.” -Senator Stephanie Flowers on racist Stand Your Ground “rights”

Emmett, Trayvon, Markeis, Kalief, Oscar, Tamir, Aiyana, Stephon, Botham, Sandra, Amadou, Eleanor, Terence, Philando, Alton, Walter, Sharmel, Miriam, Tony, Jordan, Rumain, Rekia, Laquan, Eric, Michael...

At the Movies, Mammies Make Way for Mourners

This Black woman onscreen had to buy her freedom to agency and complexity for a high price. That price was her child's life. Such is depicted in a spate of films now depending upon a Black woman losing a child violently with no one held accountable.