Tonyaa Weathersbee

Who did that Richard Sherman think he was? Justin Bieber? Making the memes this week is a comparison of Sherman, the Seattle Seahawks cornerback who Twitter racists labeled a thug because of his un-criminal act of boasting about his recent game-saving play, and Bieber, the pop star who Twitter racists have been fairly quiet about […]

I’ll begin this column off with a confession: I love, love, love cupcakes. I see my local cupcake dealer for a fix once a week. I usually buy two – usually a coconut one and a birthday cake one. I eat half of one at night – well, OK sometimes a whole one – after […]

WASHINGTON – All things considered, Valerie Jarrett seems unflappable. Jarrett, President Obama’s senior adviser and the woman who an administration source once told The New York Times was “the single, most influential person in the Obama White House,” recently joined some of my columnist colleagues and me for dinner in the nation’s capital. Even though […]

When I think about the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, I think about all the young black people back in 1963 whose footsteps were powered by their pain. And their dreams. Many, like U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, then a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and […]

When it comes to our use of the English language, it seems that black people just can’t win, no matter what end of the mastery spectrum we fall on. This past week Rachel Jeantel, the last person to talk to murdered teenager Trayvon Martin, took the stand in the trial of George Zimmerman, a watchman […]

If you’re black, you probably have heard the joke about how crowds of us draw heat; about how too many of us in one space can cause enough swelter to induce suffocation. That’s still self-deprecating silliness. But this recent heat wave – one that scientists say offer a glimpse of what global warming might look […]