Author Archives: Cheryl_McCourtie

Last week some members of the media heralded White House PBS correspondent Yamiche Alcindor for her brisk questioning of 45, yet again, during one of his daily freakshows. At one of these circuses, where 45 seldom remembers the dead butRead the Rest »

I love you Tamron Hall, but you’re wrong.  Wrong to pardon Snoop Dogg so easily for threatening journalist Gayle King’s life.  Wrong to give him a pass after his weak apology more than a week later.  I get that heRead the Rest »

Sunday December 19, 2020 Vito Boscaino hates me, and I don’t know why.  A few days ago, he posted on Facebook a doctored photo of Michelle Obama that portrayed her as a man with a beard and referred to herRead the Rest »

When I was a seventh grader in a Massachusetts boarding school my hall prefect told me that all Black people look alike.  I laughed—or rather cackled—at the foolishness of this girl. I thought of her as “mental,” in the commonRead the Rest »

When I was an undergrad at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, I was in an often-rancorous class called Race Relations in American Society. This nontraditional course was taught on Thursday evenings by a Black former military officer, Jim Vance, thenRead the Rest »

Like millions of other people in this nation, I was riveted by the six-part documentary series, Surviving R. Kelly.  It forces us, particularly as Black women, to examine our own lives, and to come to terms with how we promulgate misogyny.Read the Rest »

You forget you’re in the South when you’re in Atlanta. Until you end up in an Uber on the back roads leading from the city to one of the new suburban enclaves. Then you hold your breath as your otherwiseRead the Rest »

The freaks come out at night The freaks come out at night The freaks come out at night (the freaks come out) The freaks come out at night—Whodini In the 1987-1990 TV show Beauty and the Beast, the part-animal part-humanRead the Rest »