Danielle Jackson

Unsurprisingly, many black media outlets are abuzz with anticipation for the release of Think Like a Man, the film adaptation of Steve Harvey's self-help book of a similar name. Though I have sometimes chafed at Harvey's ideas through the years, it cannot be denied that he has worked very hard...

How can you lose your song?

When you have sung it for so long?
How can you forget your dance, your dance
When that dance is all you ever had?

It must be, it must be true
You can't separate the two
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The familiar imperiled single black woman topic started gaining traction all over again in various media outlets in recent weeks, provoked by the publicity blitz for Stanford Law professor Ralph Richard Banks' Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone. In the book, Banks notes...

Released in the US in early February, Adele's sophomore offering 21 is on track to become the highest selling album of 2011 according to Billboard. Adele's ascent has been fascinating for me as a music fan who is especially passionate about sounds that embrace a black American aesthetic. (I'm a...

It was the publication of Joy Jones' article "Marriage is for White People" in the Washington Post in 2006 that, for me, marked the emergence of the "decline of black marriage" as a topic of note in the cultural zeitgeist. In the article, the author pondered the reasons...