Angry Black Woman Watch

When the liberal and conservative political bubbles clash online over the issues of anti-black racism several tropes are bound be texted, memed or gifed. The King Kong Aint Got Nothin’ On Me of...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/the-notorious-gop-a-series-on-the-history-of-the-republican-party-and-the-black-vote-part-1/

One night six years ago, on a quiet side street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, I came across a photo album that had been put out with the trash. I lived around the corner, and I was walking home whe...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/love-and-black-lives-in-pictures-found-on-a-brooklyn-street-the-new-york-times/

I have always been ridiculously proud of being black. My parents filled me with the stories of those who fought for Caribbean independence like Julian Fedon, Queen Nanny and Toussaint L’Ouvert...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count/

These women may be lesser known to most Americans, but they are my heroes and I walk gratefully in their footsteps. Americans may know the names of Rosa Parks or Coretta Scott King, but the numer...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/remembering-9-women-behind-the-civil-rights-eras-biggest-achievements/

Long before Steve Harvey gained mainstream fame I was not feeling his brand of humor. I thought he was the least talented of the Kings of Comedy and was constantly distracted by high top fade tou...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/abww-hater-of-the-day-steve-harvey-2/

Google celebrated Flora Nwanzuruahu Nwapa, Nigerian Igbo author with a doodle on her 86th posthumous birthday yesteday. Flora Nwapa, the mother of modern African literature and forerunner to a ge...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/google-celebrates-flora-nwanzuruahu-nwapa-with-a-doodle-vanguard-news/

The U.S. Mint’s new $100 gold coin portrays Liberty as an African-American woman Hello folks! It has been a long time since I have posted to this blog. In an effort to get over the shock and ho...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/u-s-mint-new-lady-liberty-coin-for-225th-anniversary-fortune-com/

As an Africana/film historian and person with common sense, it has always gotten on my nerves that individuals refer to a sports as white or black. It is if America has massive amnesia and forgot...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/honoring-althea-gibson-the-first-black-woman-to-win-wimbeldon/

The sugar sweet nostalgia of the sassy black maid pervades Hollywood myth making and the yellow journalism of Mexicans coming to take our jobs blares from most news channels. Most forget that eve...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/excepts-from-the-book-household-workers-unite-the-untold-story-of-african-american-women-who-built-a-movement-by-premilla-nadasen/

The incidence of type 2 diabetes and hypertension increases with cumulative levels of exposure to nitrogen oxides, according to a new study led by researchers from the Slone Epidemiology Center (...

https://abww.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/study-finds-air-pollution-linked-to-increased-incidence-of-diabetes-and-hypertension-in-african-american-women/