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Our foreign neighbor Canada is known for producing unforgettable musical talent like R&B singer/songwriter/actress Deborah Cox, who swore to us…

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In the world of gossip, talk ain’t cheap…

What is it about gossip that draws us in? Better yet, how many…

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The value system that our society maintains ceases to amaze me. In this crazy world of ours people who deal…

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Sylvia Arthur sets out a few inspirational and enlightening facts to get your minds in gear to explore the big…

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Ever since Rodney Parker chased me round the playground of P.S.139, past the teeter totter, through the sandbox, all up…

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Imagine this…

You’re headed home after a long drawn out lecture in your evening college class. Cruising down the highway in…

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A celebrity is a famous person.
A famous person is one who has a widespread reputation usually of a favorable nature.
A…

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“No industry is black-owned. Actually, the (NBA) Player’s Association gets 49 percent of the revenue, since most players are black.…

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This issue of The Colorful Canvas Files is brought to you by a living legend whose contributions have led to a significant…

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Many of us set out to find that Mr. Right, but for some, he is always seemingly attached to some…

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My shrink said the strangest thing to me in therapy once. She said she was sorry she’d monopolized so much…

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Q: I am going back home for the holidays and want to wow my friends and family with a glamorous…

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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…

Life.Culture

May 1, 2008

May 2008 Reading List

  • The 48 Laws of Power
    Robert Greene
  • Married Men
    Carl Weber
  • Sugar
    Bernice L. McFadden
  • Them
    Nathan McCall
  • Fly On The Wall
    Trista Russell
  • Crack…
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    The Tempest Tales

    Tempest Landry, an everyman African American, is “accidentally” killed by a cop. Denied access to heaven because of what he…

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    Stacy Epps: Every Woman

    With the abrupt retirement of Jean Grae, in addition to Lil’ Kim, Foxy Brown, and Trina dealing with stagnant progression…

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    Racial Reconciliation

    Yep…that four-letter word again

    Help me make sense of this.

    I’m sitting in on a conversation, covering a particular sporting event,…

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    Forward Movement: Black Lily Film and Music Festival

    If there’s anything you should know anything about the soul music revival that took place in Philly in the late…

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    Turning White: A Memoir of Change

    In his thought-provoking memoir, Turning White, Emmy Award-winning TV broadcaster Lee Thomas shares the physical and mental battle he is…

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    Seen It All and Done the Rest

    For Josephine Evans, home was on the stages of the world where she spent thirty years establishing herself as one…

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    Guest Contributor Kevin Powell: The Sean Bell Tragedy

    I am sick to my stomach and I really do not know what to say right this second. My cell…

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    Sundays at Tiffany’s

    As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother Vivienne Margaux, the powerful head of a major New York…

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    Lost City Radio

    A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war. For ten years, Norma has been the…

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    Zora Neale Hurston: The Complete Stories

    This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston’s short fiction—most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime—reveals the…

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    April 1, 2008

    Tasha Smith: Hollywood’s Favorite Actress

    A million thoughts ran through my head. Is she going to be mean? Will she be brief and rush me…

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    Tia Mowry: Everybody’s All-American Girl

    From teen queen to sexy starlet, Tia Mowry is all grown up and turning heads. As one of the stars of…

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    Suze Orman

    Suze Orman is a financial powerhouse. After rising from humble beginnings, she took a potentially life ruining financial set back and…

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