
JET Excerpt: No N-Word Challenge
January 29, 2015Talk about a Black History month challenge. Ahead of our February commemoration of all things African American, one man is challenging members of our community to delete the word “nigga,” or as we in the media often put it, “the n-word” […]

Excerpt: Empire Rakes in Ratings
January 13, 2015So, about last night. It appears that Fox’s new series, Empire, starring Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard and Malik Yoba is a ratings winner. The soapy serial about a record label mogul trying to choose his heir apparent attracted 9.8 million […]

Excerpt: Waka Flips It On Us…What?
December 22, 2014Bars? Who needs bars? Being lyrical is almost scoffed at in a day and age where an artist (cough) Shy Glizzy (cough) can get a hit by rhyming: “I’m so awwwsome; I’m out here like a possum.” We’ve got Young Thug […]

Watch: Kyra Kyles on NBC-5 Talking Race
December 02, 2014Thanks to all my loyal Kyles Filers who woke up early to watch me discussing Ebony magazine’s amazing, and groundbreaking, cover story on race during NBC-5’s morning show from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. I was lucky enough to contribute […]
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Talk about a Black History month challenge. Ahead of our February commemoration of all things African American, one man is challenging members of our community to delete the word “nigga,” or as we in the [...]

So, about last night. It appears that Fox’s new series, Empire, starring Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard and Malik Yoba is a ratings winner. The soapy serial about a record label mogul trying to choose [...]

Bars? Who needs bars? Being lyrical is almost scoffed at in a day and age where an artist (cough) Shy Glizzy (cough) can get a hit by rhyming: “I’m so awwwsome; I’m out here like [...]

Thanks to all my loyal Kyles Filers who woke up early to watch me discussing Ebony magazine’s amazing, and groundbreaking, cover story on race during NBC-5’s morning show from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. [...]

So, in conversations and online exchanges with some fellas, I noted a general confusion about the infamous catcalling video that supposedly awakened all of America to what women go through on a daily basis. A [...]