The Worlds of Tyler Perry
There's little depth in Tyler Perry’s films or characters, and he may not serve Black community, but his financial success and large Black working-class following is undeniable.
Women
The National Sport of South Africa
Social progressives in South Africa would like to believe otherwise, but the country is mostly socially rightwing and conservative.
Not all US media are willful idiots
This is another Weekend Special post: compiling news and links we didn't have time to focus on in the last week.
Manufacturing controversy
The mass support for Caster Semenya among South Africans is paradoxical: of a country deeply divided, yet at certain moments strangely united around a common cause.
The most powerful woman in Africa?
Business magazine, Forbes, made a list of "The 100 Most Official Women": The top African on the list is the United Nations' top human rights official, Navi Pillay, from South Africa.