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'No Wedding, No Womb' Has A Theme Song

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
September 29, 2010
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A moist, vague moral populism meets New Jack Swing.


No Wedding No Womb Theme Song! by LJpress

To paraphrase Faulkner, it's a hard life on a single black woman for a fact. Or more likely, not so hard. The experience is never as hard, as enduring the self-appointed analysts. Black and otherwise.

Monica Potts has more. So does Michael Eric Dyson.