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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

September 21, 2009

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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The Colorful Canvas Files: Thelma Golden

This issue of Colorful Canvas Files is brought to you by Art Maven and Cultural Pioneer, Thelma Golden. You may…

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Trusting Our Big Butts and Smiles

For three years, I taught at an all-women’s, historically black college that had also been my alma mater. One semester,…

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September 14, 2009

The Measure of Blackness

Despite protests from my family members and other Nigerians in my community, I consider myself first and foremost African American.…

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Swagger Jackers Anonymous

Who copied who…and why you shouldn’t care.

Raven Symone did it to Lala. Lala did it to Cassie. Cassie did it…

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To Be Kept, or Kicked to the Curb?

That is the question…

Sure, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to deciding on…

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I Ain’t Saying She’s a Gold Digger…

Cartier watches, yachts by the bay, courtside comfort, champagne swilling After Parties, and shopping sprees down on 5th Avenue or…

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Kiss Me Through the Phone

Can Modern Romance Withstand the Digital “Divide”?

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B.ad F.emale.F.riends

It’s a Saturday night, around 11:00 p.m. to be exact, when I receive a text message from a guy friend…

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September 7, 2009

Obama’s Call To Raise Teachers’ Pay Angers Teachers

This piece is satirical. The contents of the following text are not true in any shape or form. Any resemblance…

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Making It Rain

Why “making it rain” doesn’t make a man…

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Black America and Michael Vick: A True Love Affair

Modern times dictate that the politics of sports talk, black talk, church talk, salon talk, school talk, any talk, must…

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Top 10 Reasons You May Be Single

These are the top ten reasons within in our control why we are single. This list was compiled based on…

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Mama I’m Grown

As I glance at the hands moving ever so slowly about the face of my Gucci watch, carefully advancing my…

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