Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude

Search

  • Black Stacey vs. White Stacey: A Lesson in Race Politics From Ga.

    “I don’t wanna vote for her just because she’s black, you know?” I hate it when I hear things like that. It drives me nuts to hear the contortions that black folks will go through to explain, rationalize and then justify creating their own political impotence. Yet there I was sitting at a small neighborhood…

    By










    Published

  • Republicans Are Playing a Game of Jenga With Health Care Reform

    As a majority of Americans await the inauguration of a president they didn’t vote for, even more Americans face an unclear future about their health care coverage. President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress have pledged to repeal and eventually replace the Affordable Care Act, known to most as Obamacare. In fact, in the wee…

    By










    Published

  • 4 Takeaways From Donald Trump’s 1st Press Conference as President-Elect

    After weeks and weeks of delay, President-elect Donald Trump held his first postelection press conference. The conference itself was relatively short and didn’t necessarily provide many substantive answers about conflicts of interest, which was ostensibly what the main topic was. However, it did lay the framework for how Trump’s press conferences will go once he…

    By










    Published

  • 5 Times George Michael Showed His ‘Blue-Eyed Soul’ to Black America

    As 2016 continues to troll us with loss after loss (Muhammad Ali, Prince, Ron Glass, democracy, etc.), the news on Christmas Day that British singer George Michael died peacefully in his home at age 53 was saddening and yet strangely predictable. Michael’s greatest hits in the ’80s and ’90s made him a peer of Prince,…

    By










    Published

  • Stephen A. Smith Gets Real About ESPN, Race and His Obligations to Black Viewers

    Whether you love him, hate him, quote him or only know the Saturday Night Live Jay Pharoah impressions of him, everyone has a #hottake about Stephen A. Smith. Smith is the senior host of First Take (after his longtime co-host, Skip Bayless, left the show earlier this year), the No. 1-rated sports show on the…

    By










    Published

  • From Russia With Blackness: Terrell J. Starr, Black America’s Russian Translator

    Terrell J. Starr has been Columbused by many in the mainstream media in the last several weeks. As the Russian hack on the 2016 election and President-elect Donald Trump’s relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin dominate the headlines, outlets are looking for a fresh take on Russian politics and American vulnerabilities. Terrell J. Starr—tall, black,…

    By










    Published

  • Trust but Don’t Verify: How WikiLeaks Became the World’s Pawnshop

    After a slow trickle of stories over the better part of 2016, the CIA has released a statement claiming that the Russians used cyberwarfare to attack the U.S. election. Russian agents spread disinformation through “fake news” and pro-Donald Trump Twitter bots, attacked Democratic congressional candidates, attempted to hack voter information in various states, and funneled information from hacked emails…

    By










    Published

  • Go See Office Christmas Party and Remember Everything You Like About the Holidays

    Nostalgia is a funny thing in the movies. When it’s done right, movies whisk us back to some bygone romanticized era where we could all laugh, party and relive simpler times—think Hot Tub Time Machine’s depiction of the ’80s. When movie nostalgia goes wrong, it’s a trip back to someone else’s fantasy past, when white…

    By










    Published

  • Trevor Noah, Tomi Lahren and When Black Twitter Gets It Wrong

    In the summer of 2007, I spent time in Johannesburg, South Africa, working with government officials and activists to improve local elections. South Africans were generally friendly, but I was struck by how optimistic they were about the future of the country even though apartheid had only ended, like, 15 minutes ago (1991, to be exact).…

    By










    Published

  • The 9 Rings of Donald Trump’s Administrative Hell

    In Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem Divine Comedy, the titular character is guided through the nine circles of hell. The darker your crimes, the lower the levels of hell you descend to until you meet up with Satan himself, trapped at the center of it all. At the top are crimes…

    By










    Published

Jason Johnson Avatar