Monica Potts

Young women should be able to participate in athletics without feeling like they’re on display, but that has always presented a bit of a problem with cheerleading, a sport that doesn’t get its dues as a sport and for which, at least for the past few decades, was partly about putting women on display. But […]

Yesterday, a committee released a report on the infamous arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates by Sgt. James Crowley. It found that both missed opportunities to de-escalate the situation and both were at fault for the outcome. Not surprisingly, many in the community took issue with the idea that Gates was responsible for his […]

A the same time I’ve been busy writing the portrayal of out-of-wedlock births as the scourge of all humanity and the misguided notion that marriage is a cure-all for poverty, the New York Times reported that “The United States crossed an important marital threshold in 2009, with the number of young adults who have never […]

Today on the Michael Eric Dyson show, bloggers Christelyn Karazin and Jamilah Lemieux talked about the “No Wedding, No Womb” campaign. Karazin, who is spearheading the effort, started it to “raise awareness” about high rates of out-of-wedlock births among black women. Lemieux, who blogs as Sister Toldja at The Beautiful Struggler, agreed with my take: […]

Sarah Palin went on “Dancing with the Stars” last night, and there was some booing. The booing occurred right before she hit the screen, so there’s some confusion over whether she was the target, or the audience was upset over Jennifer Grey’s scores. (Side note: Glad Grey is on the show, it seems only fitting.) […]

According to Politico, First Lady Michelle Obama is busy trying to get House Democrats to pass the Senate’s version of child nutrition legislation that would provide a little bit more money for every school lunch, update nutrition guidelines, and make it easier for lower-income children to enroll in the free-lunch program. The problem with the […]

At the Value’s Voters Summit last week, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee came out against the provision of the health-care reform act that precludes companies from excluding people with pre-existing conditions. Many have pointed out that this is one of the most popular provisions of the law and, in mocking it, Huckabee actually makes the […]

Teresa Lewis, a 41-year-old Virginia woman who admitted murdering her husband and his son, has run out of appeals and is set to be executed Thursday. Her co-conspirators were given life without parole, and Lewis’ attorneys have argued that new evidence shows they were actually the masterminds of the plot — therefore her sentence is […]