About Me:Jasmyne Cannick is a critic and commentator based in Los Angeles who writes about pop culture, race, class, sexuality, and politics as it relates to the African-American community. A regular contributor to NPR’s ‘News and Notes,’ she was chosen as one Essence Magazine’s 25 Women Shaping the World. She can be reached at www.jasmynecannick.com or www.myspace.com/jasmynecannick.
What happened Saturday during the women’s semifinal at the United States Open between Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters is just another example of how Black women are still seen as threatening and hostile.
Picture it. Los Angeles. 2009. You’re talking to your 87-year-old widowed diabetic grandmother on the phone who has just told you that she hasn’t been feeling too well lately.
Fact. On any given day I can open up any one of most read daily newspapers and never once read anything about a Black civil rights group, that is until one of those groups does something perceived has anti-gay and then its front page news.
So I got to thinking the other day while I was at the grocery standing in line. What if when we bought our food, instead of only the price of the item being scanned coming up on the register and being printed on the receipt, we were also given the fat calories, and a letter grade for that item in terms of healthy eating?
I like Salma Hayek as an actress. I respect her work and I think she’s one of the most beautiful women in the world.
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In July, NPR canceled its “Bryant Park Project,” an experimental weekday morning program, designed to draw a younger audience to public radio and capture listeners who had moved online. The live two-hour program covered news and cultural topics in an informal, conversational manner and was hosted by Alison Stewart.
Stewart said told the New [...]
The announcement by National Public Radio that it plans to cut its only African-American themed show “New & Notes” in 2009 came both as a shock and a huge disappointment. Shock because on the eve of America swearing in its first ever Black president, you’d think that NPR would see the relevance in [...]
By now, I am sure that you are aware of the fallout over the Nov. 4 election results that passed Proposition 8, an amendment to the state constitution to make marriage legal only between one man and one woman. And I have no doubt that many of you reading this op-ed were a part [...]
The right to marry does nothing to address the problems faced by both black gays and black straights.
I am a perfect example of why the fight against Proposition 8, which amends the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, failed to win black support.
I am black. I am a political activist who cares deeply about [...]
When boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of raping Miss Black Rhode Island, Desiree Washington, in an Indianapolis hotel room and served three years in prison, we threw him a parade upon his release.
When singer R. Kelly finally went to trial for 12 counts of child pornography, after a video of what really looked like him [...]
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