Culture

What the heck is a Black Dandy? It’s a long history of elegant gentleman of the African diaspora. According to reports, Black Dandyism has become an increasingly documented global phenomenon from New York City to London’s Saville Row to Brazzaville in the Congo. MUST READ: Fashion Flashback: Elle Varner, ‘I Know This Looks Like The […]

That awkward moment you Google: “A Black girl…”  and the auto complete attempts to read your mind and ends up revealing what the world thinks about you….yeah. That just happened. Honestly, we’re mostly curious about “a Black girl was asked why…” Why what? Why there’s magic in our hair? Why we don’t age? Why we […]

The language that has been used to shape the story of passionate Baltimore protestors has proved to be an offensive display of what the world thinks of them and honestly all Black people. During a press conference, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said these damning words:  “I’m a lifelong resident of Baltimore and too many people […]

There’s an uprising happening in America that’s very similar to the passionate protests of the 1960s when our parents were fighting for us to have many of the rights that we have today. In 1968, legendary writer James Baldwin did an interview with Esquire in the aftermath of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s untimely death. […]

The Mandela family name is one that carries a heavy weight of responsibility because of the legendary Nelson Mandela. After his death in 2013, the Mandela family sought to create ways to keep the legacy of the name alive. No one would have ever expected the Mandela family name to be attached to wine, but […]

Racism is a nuisance, isn’t it? It’s almost as if everywhere we turn, it rears it’s ugly head. When was the last time you went through a week without hearing or seeing or experiencing some negativity because of the racist culture that we live in? You can barely go through a news cycle without hearing […]

I decided to join my Momentum family (life transformation program) on a Saturday morning to make bag lunches and pass them out to people who wouldn’t have had a meal had it not been for the ones we provided. It was one of the most emotional and incredible days of my life that had nothing […]

Milton Bradley, retired MLB outfielder is widely known as a loose cannon–on and off the field. Recently, Sports Illustrated did a story on Bradley’s marriage and violent relationship with the late Monique Bradley and in the article, dramatic and horrific details about their sordid relationship are revealed. The two met in 2003 while Bradley played for […]