by Ope Bukola
March 31, 2010
By now, you may have heard that Jill Scott started a firestorm of criticism when she wrote this for Essence magazine. In her column, Scott talks about her feelings when a handsome, intelligent, wealthy, and married black male friend revealed that his wife was white: I admit when I saw his wedding ring, I privately [...]
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by Ope Bukola
March 29, 2010
Last weekend, I attended a panel discussion at the Brooklyn museum moderated by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. The panel, featuring Kates Shulman, Farai Chideya, and Marisa Meltzer, was billed as a discussion of feminism’s future and called “Redstockings, Riot Grrls, and Right Now: Three Generation [...]
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