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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

October 12, 2009

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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Is Chick Lit Still Relevant?

Have the gainfully employed, quick-to-spend heroines of chick lit, become relics to modern twenty-somethings? We propose a new formula for…

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Blacks Behaving Badly?

Last week was a bad week for black people. First of all, tennis titan Serena Williams suffered a very public…

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