It's Not OK: A Black Girl 101
It's not OK to confuse me with another black girl. It's not OK even if the girl bears a passing resemblance to me. I don't care if you feel bad. You should feel bad.
It's not OK to confuse me with another black girl. It's not OK even if the girl bears a passing resemblance to me. I don't care if you feel bad. You should feel bad.
Erica Watson | Posted 10.06.2009 | Comedy
I chose comedy because everyone knows that sassy, fat black women are funny. Being the butt of the joke is what we do best, right?
Lauri Lyons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
In my personal fairytale I have always imagined a black prince charming at the end of the aisle, and that has influenced my choices in terms of dating.
Beth Perry | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media
Black love is alive and well in my day-to-day life, though I realize that the macro picture isn't as pretty.
Martha St Jean | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
According to Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS at the CDC, one in 30 black women will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in her lifetime. That is unacceptable.
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
In the last two and a half months, Mrs. Obama has had the unique opportunity to single-handedly correct and contradict a litany of tired stereotypes about black women.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
The long running Grim Sleeper killing saga underscores the great threat of murder and criminal violence to many black women.
Pius Kamau | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
As armies of men all across this world aim their guns and sharp knives, having declared war on girls and women, the Western feminist movement seems to slip deeper into a strange torpor.
ABC News | Lauren Cox | Posted 01.30.2009 | Living
An economist in Germany has noticed a curious trend among Americans: For the past 50 years, black women have been shrinking with each new generation. ...
Irene Monroe | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living
Seventeen percent of the U.S. teen population is African American. In 2004, 70 percent of all teens testing HIV-positive were black.
Melissa Ulto | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home
Seven out of ten black women members of Congress have endorsed Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama. UrbnewsTV asks an activist and a hip-hop dj to weigh in.
Angela Tucker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy