Tressie McMillan Cottom

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This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

NCCU is an HBCU. (Disclosure: my alma mater.) Intel ends relationship after U.S. takes stake in the company. This is the point. abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...

A good point

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

Someone totally misunderstood how much rage I generally keep under wraps. This person basically tried to stiff me for a few thousand dollars. It’s a housing scam. Anyway, I just got off the phone with somebody’s mayor and next I’m calling a governor. Sometimes you choose right one but wrong day.

Not for the first time I would like to say that I am a magnet for thee strangest people. My word.

“I think you mean…” Homie let me stop you right there for this block.

Issa recession.

Sometimes I remember that I was really alive when Michael Jordan was at his peak. If the price for that is living through Trump then I guess it is what it is. Sigh.

From Mary Ann to WTF. I will never get over it.

😂😂

I missed this today. A lot to news!