About Kirsten West Savali

In his ‘His Side’ column for The Root, writer Jozen Cummings tackles the impact that abortion has on men, a topic often met with skepticism before being summarily dismissed. MUST READ: ‘My Abortion’: 26 Women Share Their Stories As previously reported by Hello Beautiful, New York Magazine‘s Meaghan Winter compiled the abortion stories of 26 women, providing an […]

Mr. West has officially left the building and gone out to lunch. MUST READ: Marissa Alexander Proposes Conditions For Release On Bail In a podcast with Bret Easton Ellis, the ‘Black Skinhead’ rapper compared his forays into the world of fashion to the traumatic, life-altering experiences of Solomon Northup, the protagonist in the film Twelve Years a Slave. […]

Marissa Alexander is taking matters into her own hands by proposing conditions that would expedite her release from jail. MUST READ: Marissa Alexander Gets A Hearing Date, But Is Still Unfairly Imprisoned The 33-year old Jacksonville mother of three has spent the last 2 years in jail serving time for a domestic violence dispute during which she […]

The United States Senate decided to utilize the “nuclear option” on Thursday, eliminating filibusters for most presidential nominations. And on Friday, Rush Limbaugh, being the bigot and sexist pig that he is, compared it to rape. MUST READ: Is Michelle Obama A ‘Feminist Nightmare’? “Forget the Senate for a minute,” he said on his ridiculous […]

In an article titled, Leaning Out: How Michelle Obama became a feminist nightmare, writer Michelle Cottle plays on the title of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg‘s book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, to examine the ways in which First Lady Michelle Obama has disappointed feminists with her attention to issues not […]

Earl Sampson, 28, an employee of 207 Quickstop in Miami Gardens, has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police officers 258 times, searched more than 100 times, and arrested 62 times (56 times including jail), for one thing: Working While Black. MUST READ: Study: Just 1.5 Percent Of ‘Stop-And-Frisk’ Arrests Resulted In Jail Or Prison Sentence […]

Jacob Green, a student at Millennium High School in Goodyear, Arizona claims that he was assaulted by another student because of the Confederate flag he flies on his truck, and his parents are calling it a “hate crime,” reports MyFoxPhoenix.com. MUST READ: UPDATED: Women ‘Held As Slaves’ In London Home Rescued After 30 Years The […]

In ’50 Shades of Hell No’ news, Dr. David Simon of Lake Worth, Florida faces losing his license after using whips, blindfolds, handcuffs, and sex toys to treat a female patient suffering with depression, reports the Sun Sentinel. MUST READ: UPDATED: Women ‘Held As Slaves’ In London Home Rescued After 30 Years According to the […]

UPDATE: 11/21/13, 11:10 A.M. EST Det Insp Kevin Hyland, from the Metropolitan Police’s Human Trafficking Unit, issued the following statement to the BBC: “We have launched an extensive investigation to establish the facts surrounding these very serious allegations. “A television documentary on forced marriages relating to the work of Freedom Charity was the catalyst that […]

Tackling the oppressive, anti-miscegenation one-drop rule in an article on CNN.com, Dr. Yaba Blay (pictured above), the brilliant author of “(1) Drop: Shifting the Lens On Race,” opines that Blackness is not something that can be limited to genetics; it must also be defined by lived experiences and individual choice. MUST READ: Jonestown Massacre: How […]

Nineteen-month-old Mia McKoy-Phanthavongsa was an innocent baby just learning to walk; but that didn’t stop her father, Merrick McKoy, 22, from allegedly putting a bullet through her head Monday morning immediately after posting a selfie of them together on Facebook. In an exclusive interview with Denver’s Fox 31, Mia’s distraught mother, Kim Phanthavongsa, 21, said […]

Sikivu Hutchinson, acclaimed author of Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics & Values Wars and Godless Americana: Race & Religious Rebels, examined the Jonestown Massacre through the lenses of race, religiosity, white supremacy and patriarchy and the result is a fascinating read. MUST READ: Buyer’s Remorse: Romney Defeats President Obama In New Poll On November […]