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By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World Thursday, January 12, I had the distinct honor of conversing with two extremely intelligent brothers, Tony McClean and Micheal Ingram, on their LA Batchelor Pad radio show. The initial topic of conversation was my recent article concerning the so-called educators in Gwinnett County, Georgia using slavery in [...]
By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World So, after years of using derogatory language to describe women, Blue Ivy’s father, Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter, has decided to immediately cease and desist using the word “B*itch” in honor of his new-born daughter, reports GlobalGrind.com. In a touching verse, he rhymes: “Before I got in the game, made [...]
By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World Recently, as many African-Americans stumble blindly through this “post-racial” society, there have been intense—often antagonistic—conversations surrounding the gnawing need that many of us feel to shoulder the responsibility of each and every one of our brothers and sisters. Two schools of thoughts emerge. On one side, we [...]
Your Black News reports: Third grade math is not normally the course where students are taught about beating slaves and dehumanizing labor, but two teachers at Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Atlanta thought it was a perfectly normal integration. Chris Braxton told Fox 5 Atlanta that his son came home from school Friday afternoon with [...]
By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World During my childhood in the Deep South — surrounded by antebellum homes, plantations and the residual psychological, physiological and emotional damage of slavery — being called a “woman” was almost considered an insult. “Woman” implied something basic, crude, unfinished — a woman was nothing if she wasn’t a [...]
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By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World Since his race-tinged attack of President Barack Obama’s neutral stance on reproductive issues has come back to bite him in his red elephant trunk, we at Your Black World felt it was only fair to publish GOP presidential candidate, Rick Santorum’sdefending arguments. The former Pennsylvania senator appeared on Fox News on January [...]
By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World President Barack Obama’s policies do not reflect his gratitude to the U.S. government for considering him human, and former Republican Senator Rick Santorum has decided to put him in his place. In an interview with CNS News, the senator voiced his absolute disbelief that Obama would dare support [...]
By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World Growing up in an African Methodist Episcopal household as a child (A.M.E. — shout out to Richard Allen!), the annual Christmas program was a huge deal. From the flowing red gowns of the female choir members to the gold candles illuminating the sanctuary in a warm glow, the [...]
By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World Author Faith Ringgold, though her intent may have been honorable, has succeeded in angering New York native, Veronica Washington, 31, who searched out the author’s work because she has a reputation for encouraging and uplifting messages that she wanted to share with her young daughter, Racquel. What she [...]
Black Like Moi reports: The nation has been on high-alert, frantically looking for a trace of little Jhessye Shockleysince her disappearance over two months ago from the Phoenix, Arizona suburb of Glendale. Now detectives have reported that it is believed that the girl has been dead at least that long, murdered and then dumped in a [...]
By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World While sitting under the hair dryer Friday afternoon, I grabbed a stack of magazines that were haphazardly scattered on the small table to my right and began sifting through them for suitably mindless, I-work-hard-all-week-so-let-me-catch-up-with-fashion-and-entertainment chatter. Apparently, the Universe decided that a mind was a terrible thing to waste [...]
The Journal of Sexual Medicine has published a study by the Institute of Cytology in Russia. The data found that men infected with gonorrhea emit a “putrid” odor according to the women who took part in the study. The scientists got the idea from female rats, whom use their sense of smell to avoid diseased [...]
By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World I don’t like Steve Harvey — yes, I said it. To be more precise, since I’ve never met the man personally, I don’t like what Steve Harvey represents. There is an arrogance—a barely sheathed tone of alpha-male superiority that permeates everything he spews from politics to relationships—that [...]
In this conversation, Kirsten West Savali debates Jesse Lee Peterson about the legacy of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood. The conversation is an interesting discussion about Sanger’s controversial life and what both the right and left think about the right to life vs. Pro choice debate. Click Here to Listen to the Interview [...]
