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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

April 1, 2008

KeKe Wyatt: Ghetto Rose

My call must have been her first for the day because she seemed a little groggy. After an apologetic yawn…

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Nicolay & Kay: Time:Line

The element of “the group” in hip hop seems to be transcending into more of individuals who think on the…

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Sisters Supporting Brothers: Cloud Nine Productions

Sisters Supporting Sisters/Brothers is dedicated to men and women of color living out their entrepreneurial dreams. Sisters Supporting Sisters/Brothers was…

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Believing We Have a Purpose in Life: I Do, Do You?

I want to believe that right now at this very moment what I am typing for each of you will…

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Clutch Global: Dumebi Agbakoba: Stop Complaining, Do Sumthing!

Dumebi Agbakoba has a dream that one day all young people in Africa, irrespective of age and physical ability, will be…

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Bahamadia: “B-Girl, B-Free: Progression of a Female MC

Bahamadia has been reshaping the definition of her career and artistry amongst MCs since long before (and after) her acclaimed release Kollage.…

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Hair and Now

The first time I cut my hair short was a few days before my twenty-fifth birthday. Not only did I…

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Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Women Writing Africa)

This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as…

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The Translator

I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there…

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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America

On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther…

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The Money Therapist: A Woman’s Guide to Creating a Healthy Financial Life

According to Dr. Elizabeth Warren, head of Harvard’s Consumer Bankruptcy Project, more women file for bankruptcy than graduate from college,…

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Autism and Diet: Balancing the Bowl

Our six year old son, Justin owns a very impressive portfolio of miniature cars; totaling over 400. He keeps close…

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Kevin Powell: Son2Mother

Mother, have I told you

That you are the first woman

I ever fell in love with, that what

I’ve always wanted in…

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Eric Jerome Dickey: Pleasure

Eric Jerome Dickey was born in Memphis, Tennessee and attended the University of Memphis (the former Memphis State), where he pledged…

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