Category: LIVE

• TBT: Remember when the University of Wisconsin Photoshopped a Black Student into their application booklet?

  Yep.  In 2000, UW tried to make their milky white campus look a little more tan.  They photoshopped a picture of black student Diallo Shabazz into their promotional materials. And they did it over and over again without his knowledge.  You can see his head in the duplicate image on the right. “Diallo sued. He didn’t ask for […]

  Tamara Lynch

  November 12, 2015

  Black Write Now, LIVE, Writing While Black

  #blackoncampus, #TBT

• Because Ann Romney couldn’t have done this. Work it #FLOTUS!

   

  Tamara Lynch

  April 7, 2015

  Dancing, LIVE, Video

  FLOTUS, Michelle Obama, Uptown Funk-Let’s Move Campaign

• International Women’s Day: Women Kick Ass

  Tamara Lynch

  March 8, 2015

  LIVE

  International Women’s Day, Wonder Woman

• Year of the Sheep? Or the Goat? Which is it?

                    Apparently it’s both.  Chinese culture recognizes Ram, Sheep, and Goat as all proper translations for “yang”- the mandarin term for this year’s animal symbol.  As yang is the masculine half of the Taoist yin yang, you may assume our little goat/sheep/ram is male, but 2015 is […]

  Tamara Lynch

  February 20, 2015

  Culture, Inspiration, LIVE, MAGIC

  Chinese New Year, Streetfighter, Yang, Year of the Goat, Year of the Sheep, Yin Yang

• MTV takes a stand on race, goes black and white for #MLK day. #blacklivesmatter

  

  Don’t freak out, there is nothing wrong with  your TV set.  MTV has just decided to air all of its programming in black in white today for MLK.  I’m taking a day for Dr. King, for Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Wenjian Liu, Rafael Ramos, and the thousands of minority homicide victims that go unjustified […]

  Tamara Lynch

  January 19, 2015

  Black Write Now, Culture, LIVE

  #MTVforMLK, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., MTV