Location. Location. Location! What might an art exhibit and a much questioned dehumanization have to do with education or a tone-deaf discrimination? It is the location! The neighborhood in which the exhibit sits is one rarely frequented by gallery-goers. It is Bronzeville. Bronzeville is not the place [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. July 10, 2015 | Photographic Credit; An honor guard from the South Carolina Highway patrol removes the Confederate battle flag from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, South Carolina ( AP) The Confederate Flag has been removed from the [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. July 7, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Abigail Fisher speaks to Supreme Court Decision (AP) As a Black woman, I sincerely want to see feminism present a united front in the fight against sexism and racism. However, with so [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. June 18, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama and the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina, now forever forged together throughout time. A White man named Dylann Storm Roof walked [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at Clutch Magazine. | Photographic Credit; Worshippers embrace following a group prayer across the street from the scene of a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night. (Photograph By David Goldman/AP) For the Black community, yesterday was [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. May 26, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Ray Rice arrives with wife Janay Palmer for an appeal hearing of his suspension. New York. Associated Press Late last week, the charges against football player Ray Rice were all dropped by [...]
By: Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. | March 23, 2015 | Image Credit; IBN Live. When I read an article (via Facebook) about a 23-year-old man being charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl, after being caught by the child’s mother engaging in [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. February 24, 2015 Patricia Arquette’s Oscar acceptance speech imploring for wage equality was met with applause by her peers, including Meryl Streep. However, as The Frisky told you yesterday, her backstage interview — which was reasonably referred to [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. December 24, 2014 | Photographic Source; For Harriet I have a deep-seated resentment of White parents who specifically hire Black immigrant women or people of color as nannies. Whenever I go to the park or take a stroll [...]
