Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying To Do Right By Marvel Comics’ First Black Superhero
It’s 2 A.M. on March 20 in France and Ta-Nehisi Coates is not sleeping. “I’m up learning to make maps so I can make one of Wakanda, believe it or not.”
Please Be Inspired by the Badass Women of the 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant
This year’s women recipients of the MacArthur Genius grant, which awards annual $625,000 fellowships to innovative people doing ill shit for the world, include a neuroscientist, a tap dancer, a historian, an off-Broadway set designer, a photographer and a poet. LET’S GET INSPIRED.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Wrong
In today’s Tweet Beat, Rachel Maddow cracks a joke, Ingrid Michaelson recalls a simpler time and Ta-Nehisi Coates is wrong....but only about the website. Fall is great.
Listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates Whilst Snuggled Deep Within My Butthole
Dear Ta-Nehisi Coates—how do you pronounce that, by the way?
It's Almost Impossible to Convince People They're Wrong About Stuff
It happens constantly on the internet: Despite mountains of scientifically rigorous concrete evidence, there are certain falsehoods that people simply insist on believing. Sexism isn't real. Vaccines cause autism. Barack Obama is a secret Muslim Kenyan socialist terrorist. Fat people are lazy. Pitch Perfect is a good…
"She's Who Scout Finch Would Have Grown Up To Be, I Think"
I'd like to think so too. But regardless, this is a great read, including the very vibrant comment section, from whence the quote above comes. [Ta-Nehisi Coates/The Atlantic]
Father's Day: Fatherhood Initiative Encourages Dads To Man Up
It's funny that on the same day I planned to write a little something on Obama's "Fatherhood Initiative," a tipster should send in the clip of a guy talking about his daughter that had 1,500 women in tears:
Michelle Obama Is Not Claire Huxtable: The Dangers Of Comparing Reality To TV
Robin Givhan's comparison of Michelle Obama to Claire Huxtable is far from new, but it is newly bizarre, implying that six months into the Obama administration, Americans still need a dated TV show to understand Michelle.
