*TRIGGER WARNING: this post contains a disturbing final photograph of Laura Nelson’s dangling corpse. My twitter-feed enlightened me to the latest charade of revolutionary discourse, which enlists the black woman as its weapon of choice. Jamilah Lemieux’s Vanity Fair article “Dave Chapelle and the ‘black a– lie,” is the most recent miseducated “voice” selected to…
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Why My Husband Must Be a Black Man
I wrote a post a couple of years ago entitled: Why I Won’t Date a White Man. Though I do not regret this post, I do wish I used the space to implement an affirmation for why I, a black man remains not only my sole romantic preference, but my only option for partnership. Why…
The Rihanna-Repeat: Meg Thee Stallion and The Black Female Role in Assassinating Black Male Character
I’ll make this a short and sweet post, because I have little interest in discussing Tory Lanez or Meg Thee Stallion any more than I already have. Nevertheless, their contentious union betrays an important lesson for young black people. I was a sophomore in college when the Rihanna-Chris Brown scenario went viral and changed both…
The Soulz of Black Folk Spotlight Series: Artist/Academic Ajuan Mance and 1001 Black Men
Almost six years ago, a twenty-four year old African displaced in New York, jumped on a plane and moved to California for graduate school. She sat nervously at a departmental orientation, listening to professors introduce themselves. Afterwards, she walked alone on campus giving herself an unofficial tour. While acquainting herself with what would become her…
What I Love About Black Men
A shared history We may not have physically been there to witness the erection of the pyramids or the sphinx, but we hold hands across time to a shared greatness. This connection yields a paramount and pivotal shared experience that runs deeper than the shallowness of present attraction. The Lips With lips full like the…
Whispers of a Womanist 