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With Hollywood for years being a haven for the long-haired blond and brunette, it’s hard to be a sex symbol…

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We’re only human and equally subject to the chronic brainwashing that inevitably instills varying degrees of bigotry. Racism, sexism, homophobia,…

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Times are hard especially financially, however, my girlfriend does not seem to realize the whole world is undergoing something called…

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I remember exactly where I was that night that history was made. I was fast asleep in my bed and…

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It was proven best in the fashionable documentary The September Issue, that Fall is the New Year’s of fashion. Fashion…

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I vividly remember the day I got my first relaxer. I was 7 years old, and there I sat in…

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Brilliance is defined as: having or showing great intelligence, talent, and quality. Well, if you’ve ever had the privilege of watching…

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Once upon a time (i.e. this past spring), Spike Lee put Tyler Perry on blast:

“Each artist should be allowed to…

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I remember way back when… Reminisce with me. Life was less complicated for a youngster. My Huffy Bike was valet’d in the driveway, Saturday morning cartoons were in heavy rotation, Puma wasn’t just an animal at the zoo…

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Who can take out a housemaid with a single Smackberry? Who can rock community service hours in New York City’s…

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Who sold this idea to women that it is the sole responsibility of a man to always have condoms at…

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It seems like every week a new skin care cream hits the shelf. Products for frown lines, laugh lines, crows…

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Talent aside (ahem), there have been very few celebrities who warrant as much media coverage as Robyn Rihanna Fenty. Sure,…

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You can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the revolution. – Fred Hampton, Nov. 3, 1969

This week I came across…

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The conflict in the Congo is a much overlooked atrocity that is claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of…

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I remember when I was in high school. When it came to fitting in with all the different peer groups…

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Have you ever come across a group of juveniles whose fundraising practices consist of canvassing commercial hubs, or expressway entry…

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So you spent a lot of the governments change (not the free kind) getting your education, you haven’t gotten into…

Life.Culture

October 12, 2009

Are You A “Sell-Out”?

What is a sell out? People throw the word around so freely with very little thought as to its exact…

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How to Approach a Woman (If You Want Her to Take You Seriously)

One would think that the art of approaching a woman in a charming, respectful manner is nothing short of nanoscience…

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The View from the Corporate Ladder: Mentors

Sylvia Arthur says the value of mentors can’t be underestimated in the corporate arena

The corporate maze is hard enough to…

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He’s Not That Into You

Dating is meant to be a period of time where two people get to know each another, and establish whether…

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October 5, 2009

Do Black Men and Women Hate Each Other?

Conversations about relationships are about as regular as books in a library. So if talk is aplenty, why is nobody…

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We Gotta Put You On To: Curb Your Enthusiasm

I don’t like talking to… to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with. – Larry David

Larry David…

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Overcoming the Fear of Failure

CLUTCH!

It’s that feeling you get before you write down the first word of that business proposal you’ve had in…

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Promiscuous Girl Turned Church Girl

We all remember that one girl in school who seemed to be headed down a destructive path. Raised by a…

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September 28, 2009

8 Money-Saving (and making) Tips for the Recessionista

For me, 2005-2008 was a world where the streets where paved with gold. I spent money like water. I dined…

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The View from the Corporate Ladder

Sylvia Arthur on the highs and lows of climbing the corporate ladder

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Should He Put a Ring on It?

Beyonce is a lot like Yoda: silly seems she, but wise she is.

I’m thinking of Beyonce’s hit song “Single Ladies,”…

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Say it Loud: Lipstick Tomboy, and Proud

It takes a lot of effort to be a “girly girl”. A never-ending quest for physical perfection: Ones’ hair, nails,…

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My Transformation Into Renaissance

Cross your legs.

Don’t speak too loud.

Don’t wear sneakers everyday.

Gotta know how to clean and take care of home.

Jeans are not…

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Friends in My Head

Imaginary friends are not uncommon during childhood, and more than likely that vivid wild imagination will follow you into adulthood.…

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September 21, 2009

The Recyclable Covers


“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” –Harold…

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