Entertainment
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Music Spotlight: Diallo Hall Introduces Singer Liz Ogumbo
By Diallo Hall Music has been central to the very existence of the Luo people of East Africa since the dawn of time. Their songs...
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Who’s Afraid of Mildred Pierce?
One of the central premises of Betty Friedan’s germinal text, The Feminine Mystique(1963), is that the robust effort to restore American women to their rightful...
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The Mildred Patricia Baena Story
By Allison McCarthy A sketch from Monday night’s episode of Lopez Tonight is grabbing entertainment headlines. Comedian George Lopez claimed to have a world exclusive...
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The Defiant One: Euzhan Palcy
By Trica Danielle Keaton For Joanne and David Burke, with thanks and appreciation. Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland, Gérard Depardieu and the controversial American...
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Birds of Different Feathers
By Patricia Friedrich I have to confess that it was with some trepidation that I took my family to see the new animated movie Rio....
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A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark"
By Soyica Colbert Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark opened at the Second Stage Theatre on April 6,...
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“Love that Girl” but Hate “those” Boys?
By Ulli K. Ryder “Love that Girl” is a new show on TVOne, starring Tatyana Ali who is best known for her role as Ashley...
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Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes
Reprinted from Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, with SUNY Press. Update: Final copy now available in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender...
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On a Blues Woman’s Birthday
Today is singer Bessie Smith’s 117th birthday. While the particular milestone is not the most significant, the woman it relates to is. “The Empress of...
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Pity the Poor Latvians
Steven Barnes, our welcomed guest contributer, is a professional writer, lecturer, coach and television writer, juggling the challenges between each and maintaining both a blog of...
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"If You Scared Just Say It": Black and Queer with Nothing to Prove- A Preview of Shirlette and the Dynamite Brothers
Play the song before it plays you. Turn it on before game recognizes game. Touch the wound inside before it heals. This is the...
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Cupid Ain’t @#$%! (and neither is the symbolic violence of his arrow)
Chocolate hearts will melt, flowers will die, and millions of Americans will be left to foot the bill of yet another over-commercialized holiday. Valentine's Day...
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Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But I Am!
The following essay is a response to “Kanye West Is Not A Feminist But…” For more information, please see the initial essay as well...
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A Response to Ron Neal's Essay, "Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But…"
TFW supports our writers’ prerogative to take unpopular positions on important matters, but from time to time, the editors will not agree with an...
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Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But…..
By Ronald B. Neal I’ve been thinking about Kanye West and gender politics for quite some time. It began back in ’05 when his pop ular...
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The Zen of Young Money: Being Present to the Genius of Black Youth
I fly with the stars in the skies, I am no longer trying to survive, I believe that life is a prize, But to live...
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Mothering Ourselves Manifests
Lavender water, feather boas, dance breaks and booty shakes. Split pea soup and togetherness tasted. Queerness affirmed, fear and shame released, plants watered, seeds planted,...