Quvenzhané Wallis has run away with my heart. Watch the trailer for the Hollywood newcomer’s upcoming movie, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and she’ll snatch yours too. See it here.
Stacy Swimp is trying to start something. The member of the conservative group Project 21 doesn’t want to be called African American and, in fact, says, “Many people… are still saying ’I’m African American,’ as if they’re stuck on the plantation, as if we just got off the boat.” WTH? Yet he’s fine with ‘Black.’ A color. That none of us are. Was Crayola in charge of picking racial designations back in the day?
The trophy goes to Amanda Clayton. She won a $1 million lottery, but kept collecting food stamps. She’s going to court soon. Welfare fraud, you know. But my issue with her: Stop saying she’s a “Detroit area” woman. My hometown has enough problems. She’s from Lincoln Park.
I’ve rarely been angrier than I was on April 29, 1992. But I was living in New York, a country away from the L.A. riots. Check out how children viewed those dark days in a moving documentary.
Brooklyn native MC Lyte stopped by ESSENCE this week and told us why she moved to L.A.: 10-foot-high snow drifts in New York, the beautiful view at Queen Latifah’s Cali home, and watching Facts of Life as a kid. “Tootie was out in L.A. on television. I want to be where Tootie was,” she told us.
The trophy goes to Amanda Clayton. She won a $1 million lottery, but kept collecting food stamps. She’s going to court soon. Welfare fraud, you know. But my issue with her: Stop saying she’s a “Detroit area” woman. My hometown has enough problems. She’s from Lincoln Park.