I recently participated in a panel held by Georgetown University’s chapter of the NAACP and met with a couple of students who attend Howard University. The conversation ended that night with an understanding...

Since her paradoxical “Independent Woman” and “Cater 2 U” days with Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé Knowles has long  been at the center of many conversations about the feminist politics of respectability....

We are getting swept away by social media. Facebook posts, tweets, Instagram photos and Tumblr blogs are distorting our sensibilities toward the issues that matter the most. According to Amanda Hess’...

First lady Michelle Obama’s speech, titled “How Hard You Work,” was perhaps the most impressive speech of the Democratic National Convention. On behalf of her husband, she relayed a simple, well-received...