With Hollywood for years being a haven for the long-haired blond and brunette, it’s hard to be a sex symbol…
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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It was proven best in the fashionable documentary The September Issue, that Fall is the New Year’s of fashion. Fashion…
Brilliance is defined as: having or showing great intelligence, talent, and quality. Well, if you’ve ever had the privilege of watching…
Once upon a time (i.e. this past spring), Spike Lee put Tyler Perry on blast:
“Each artist should be allowed to…
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…
Who can take out a housemaid with a single Smackberry? Who can rock community service hours in New York City’s…
It seems like every week a new skin care cream hits the shelf. Products for frown lines, laugh lines, crows…
Talent aside (ahem), there have been very few celebrities who warrant as much media coverage as Robyn Rihanna Fenty. Sure,…
You can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the revolution. – Fred Hampton, Nov. 3, 1969
This week I came across…
The conflict in the Congo is a much overlooked atrocity that is claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of…
I remember when I was in high school. When it came to fitting in with all the different peer groups…
Have you ever come across a group of juveniles whose fundraising practices consist of canvassing commercial hubs, or expressway entry…
Have the gainfully employed, quick-to-spend heroines of chick lit, become relics to modern twenty-somethings? We propose a new formula for…
Last week was a bad week for black people. First of all, tennis titan Serena Williams suffered a very public…
This issue of Colorful Canvas Files is brought to you by Art Maven and Cultural Pioneer, Thelma Golden. You may…
For three years, I taught at an all-women’s, historically black college that had also been my alma mater. One semester,…
Despite protests from my family members and other Nigerians in my community, I consider myself first and foremost African American.…
Who copied who…and why you shouldn’t care.
Raven Symone did it to Lala. Lala did it to Cassie. Cassie did it…
That is the question…
Sure, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to deciding on…
Cartier watches, yachts by the bay, courtside comfort, champagne swilling After Parties, and shopping sprees down on 5th Avenue or…
It’s a Saturday night, around 11:00 p.m. to be exact, when I receive a text message from a guy friend…
This piece is satirical. The contents of the following text are not true in any shape or form. Any resemblance…
Modern times dictate that the politics of sports talk, black talk, church talk, salon talk, school talk, any talk, must…
These are the top ten reasons within in our control why we are single. This list was compiled based on…
As I glance at the hands moving ever so slowly about the face of my Gucci watch, carefully advancing my…
Not feelin the look at all, but I love me some Angie Stone, so I will be purchasing the new CD....
What is this statistical nonsense? Food stamps a program that gives free food to those in need w...
Oh and it is a sorry state of affairs when people will allow the misconduct of artist because you li...
Damn, Jaz-O looks like a straight up punk with all this hate. How long has it been now and he still ...
Thank you Clutch! This article is really comforting; I always relate to the material you women writ...