In a piercing poem entitled “I Used To Think” published in the 1983 poetry collection, Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology, writer and editor Chirlane McCray, wife of NYC mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio, tackles narrow European beauty standards and the White supremacy that undergirds them head on. The poem stands as a powerful literary example of why […]
Beverly Bond on the pink carpet of this year’s taping at New Jersey Performing Arts Center . Almost every year during mainstream awards season there seems to be a sting when, inevitably, Black actresses, musicians and notables are passed over for awards…or simply left off the ballots all together. We felt it earlier this year […]
