I first read the WaPo piece by Helena Andrews after googling her name when I saw the title to her upcoming book/movie, Bitch Is The New Black, on Shonda Rhimes’ IMDB page. I thought little of it, since the whole “educated black woman can’t find a man” schtick has filled the pages of Essence, Ebony, [...]

Searching through Google Images, I was struck by how indicative what we as a people have been shaped to believe is the “right” image of love, romance, sex, and passion. Type in those words and despite the proliferation of hearts and lips and other generic images of “romance” and up pops photographs of white men [...]

The racially-charged history behind Aunt Jemima and a petition for Quaker Oats to remove the imagery from its brand. (And OT: I know I began this blog with the intention of reviewing romances, but it’s turned into so much more, and while I will juxtapose reviews with my personal commentaries on race, romance and feminism, [...]

After being introduced to blogger Angry Black Woman, I clicked on the Erase Racism Carnival and found a whole host of links, the most important being blogs written by feminists of different colors. What struck me, while reading them, was how much they pertained to the subject of black writers of romance and their position [...]