Tag Archive: Black Blogs

When Dic!k’s Law Becomes Chick’s Law

I truly believe that Facebook could inspire a year’s worth of posts with little duplication especially around human interaction and thought. I love provocative updates in people’s profiles, because usually when hot buttons are pressed personal truths follow. And I’m not so sanctimonious to believe that there is only one truth; sometimes there are many. [...]

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Blog & Social Network Beef

Several months ago, I pissed off and alienated alot of bloggers as I wrote about the Black Blog Renaissance, think Harlem, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston sort of. Think about the next artistic wave of pure genius, literary brilliance, with one eye opened and your head tilted to the side. I [...]

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The Backlash Of The Black Blog

(left to right: Omarosa, Natasha of YBF, and Sandra Rose of Sandra Rose)
This post I think is a long time coming. And I’m going to be honest. I think Gabrielle Union et. al are right. She lamented in Essence magazine a few months ago on how many black blogs (most written by black women) had [...]

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