Are Marriage rates trumping our Unemployment rates?

While the rest of the Black Blogosphere is still reeling from that Nightline Faceoff about why Successful Black Women Can’t Find a Man (I guess unsuccessful Black women fare better, whatever that means), I think we’re all failing to pay attention to a bigger issue: why successful Black women can’t find a job. A friend [...]

Tyler Perry, step away from the camera.

Last week we found out that Tyler Perry revealed the cast for his film adaptation of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow was enuf by Ntozake Shange. Read ‘em and weep: Black Voices has learned that writer/director/producer Tyler Perry has selected the cast for next film, ”For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When [...]

Surprise! For many orgs, Social Media=more success

A recent study shows that organizations that use social media are more financially successful than those that don’t. There’s been some talk about what this means for corporate companies and non-profit organizations as well. Organizations that were measured to have the greatest depth and breadth of social media engagement grew company revenues by an average [...]

Precious Part 2 – When “feel good” branding goes wrong

My second post devoted to the movie Precious was going to be about how Tyler Perry should consider leaving the director’s chair alone for a while and funding more smaller projects by black directors other than himself. It could really show Hollywood the real scope of his power. Then I started seeing the new cut [...]

We are the Possible

Friend and fellow blogger Rosetta Thurman  interviewed me for  this week’s series, “We are the Possible”. Check it out! How did you become involved in doing the work of social change? For most of my childhood my parents did work in our church community and they were devoted to education and creating better opportunities for youth [...]

Wildin’ at WAM!

This weekend I had the privilege of attending the Women Action and the Media Conference sponsored by the Center for New Words in Boston. It was a great opportunity to hear about feminism from a global perspective, but more importantly, I just loved hearing the voices of some of my fellow women of color activists, [...]

Be the Change: CPL New Leaders Program Now Accepting Applications

2009 marked the beginning of a historic moment in our country’s history, which I and other bloggers have written about and will continue writing about for years to come. But the question still remains: How will young people, many of whom voted for President Obama overwhelmingly, take part in the change that we all wanted [...]

A few Words on Chris and Rihanna

Cross Posted at Change.org Most of you have heard about the Chris Brown-Rihanna domestic violence issue. There are several sides to this story, but I will say that violence against women is a serious issue and it is an issue that needs to be addressed in our communities. Two members of Females United for Action - 15 [...]

Michelle’s Vogue Cover Matters

Carmen Van Kerckhove from New Demographic recently wrote about Michelle Obama’s Vogue Cover. From CNN/AC360: In case anyone is wondering what’s so utterly remarkable about having Michelle Obama model the cover of Vogue, consider the fashion magazine’s blighted past in matters of race. Vogue has a history of publishing disquieting images of black people, so [...]

Not Another Greek Post: Ohio State Black Greeks Banned

This week, Ohio State put all seven Black Fraternities and Sororities on campus due to “increased violence.” From US News and World Report: All seven Greek organizations catering to black students at Ohio State are on “social moratorium” imposed by the National Pan-Hellenic Council at OSU until February because of violence at a fraternity party [...]