Marc Lamont Hill's wife, Dr. Melissa, got emotional while talking about aging as a Black woman. She said she hates the way she's aged, and that after having her son, it felt like she aged overnight. To her, it felt like she gave up her beauty to become a mother.

Thoughts

u/wordsbyink — 11 days ago

Are Black men to blame for our women being the most overweight group?

It’s wild, a lot of (only) our women weigh as much as NFL players according to literally any statistic you search.

I would love to see our women healthy, like the women of our grandparents or great grandparents time, but who’s to blame for the current standards and how do we get back on track?

Im genuinely curious because every time I’ve tried to give health advice to a woman their girl friends dismiss it or they themselves will have an excuse. It's so easy even with AI, you dont't even have to lift weights but just change how/what you eat in most cases.. We gotta break this cycle to have healthy Black families.

u/wordsbyink — 12 days ago

Mamdami sat down with Nas “to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.”

u/wordsbyink — 15 days ago

Rep. LaMonica Mclver, facing 17 years in prison, “I made the decision to get pregnant.”

Backstory: She faces federal charges of assaulting, resisting and impeding ICE officers during a May 2025 congressional oversight visit to Newark’s Delaney Hall detention center. Prosecutors allege she slammed her forearm into one agent and used her forearms to strike another amid a scrum over the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka. No officers were injured. She pleaded not guilty, citing legislative immunity and selective prosecution. Max penalty: 17 years.

u/wordsbyink — 16 days ago

Looking back, what are your thoughts on this

If you don’t have any thoughts, that’s ok too.

u/wordsbyink — 27 days ago

Alabama Plans to Execute Jeffery Lee Despite Jury Vote for Life

An Alabama jury rejected the death penalty for Jeffery Lee and voted for life imprisonment without parole. The State nonetheless plans to execute Mr. Lee on September 17.

eji.org
u/wordsbyink — 1 month ago

Representative Jasmine Crockett presented Chris Brown and Usher with a Congressional Record in Texas.

What are your thoughts

u/wordsbyink — 1 month ago

Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.

The 11 not-guilty jurors -- who hectored him for a week to cave -- were all white.

u/wordsbyink — 1 month ago

How do we improve these numbers?

CDC life-table data show Black male life expectancy at birth was 72.5 years in 2014 and 66.7 in 2021, a decline of 5.8 years, which the graphic rounds to 6 years. The 2014 figures shown for Black women (78.5), White men (76.7) and White women (81.4) also match CDC data.

Now this graph dips due to COVID at the time, and has since recovered, but Black American men remain substantially below the U.S. average and below White, Hispanic, and Asian Americans, including after COVID.

u/wordsbyink — 1 month ago

American Nazi Party members listening to Malcolm X speak at a black Muslim rally (DC, 1961)

Washington, D.C., 1961: Members of George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party attend a Nation of Islam rally, reflecting a brief and deeply controversial point of overlap between two movements that both opposed racial integration and advocated racial separation, despite their radically different ideologies.

George Lincoln was shot and killed in 1967 by a former member of his own organization, while Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 by gunmen associated with the Nation of Islam.

u/wordsbyink — 1 month ago

Why do most Black women see themselves as their own race?

“Michigan State University’s Department of African American & African Studies” this is a program to attain a PhD in “African American Studies”

Not just a useless degree, that they will complain about being 6 figures in debt over (and one of you men having to pay it off) but not a Black man in sight. Even has white men, before a Black man

Why do most of our women think they’re in their own race?

u/wordsbyink — 1 month ago

Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/politics/jeffries-kushner-private-meeting.html

>The New York Times reported that House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries met with Jared Kushner to discuss possible areas of cooperation.

>The news has prompted backlash from some Democrats and Trump critics.

>Jared Kushner holds no formal government role and is under scrutiny over conflicts between his attempted regional diplomacy and billions in Gulf-linked investment money for his investment firm.

>Former Obama aide Tommy Vietor said Jeffries should deal with Kushner only through “demands for documents and subpoenas.”

u/wordsbyink — 2 months ago