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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,…
Times are hard especially financially, however, my girlfriend does not seem to realize the whole world is undergoing something called…
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…

Dig this sequel by way of Jay-Z’s former friend, Jaz O, as he puts DimeWars down with allegations that the Hova gets…
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She’s So Ambitious: Rhonesha Byng, Founder of HerAgenda.com
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Our girl Ayah just dropped her new video for “In My Lifetime” off her latest album “4:15″. This woman is not the one to sleep on!
It is good to see the novels Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen on this list. I don’t know if I ever would have picked either of these books up outside of college, but Quicksand is one of my favorite books.
i haven’t read white oleandar but i saw the movie. it’s worth a read. i just finished reading the brief wondrous life of oscar wao and it was amazing. definitely worthy of the pulitzer. push has been on my fav list for a long time and i can’t wait to see it on film. mama’s girl by veronica chambers paralleled some of my own experiences as a first generation american of panamanian descent living in new york and not speaking spanish (to the dismay of my older relatives). i haven’t read the bluest eye in years but i still remember how it touched me.
I’m going to have to check out “10 Bad Choices” and “Make it Happen” Quicksand was a great read!
I haven’t read it in a while either, but The Bluest Eye made me cry. I need to pick up PUSH once and for all. Oh, and if you liked Quicksand, I recommend Gayl Jones’s Corregidora (it may be out of print). And this may not need mentioning, but what about Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Okay, I am thankful for this list because I knew nothing of “A Mercy” by Toni Morrison and I see I am going to have to get up on Sherry Argov. Thanks you guys!
I had the pleasure of reading Harlem Renasaince writer Nella Larsen’s “Passing” and it was haunting, entertainging and an all around well crafted book. I did attempt to read Push by diva griot Sapphire and had no idea what the heck I was in for and I just had to put it down because it was too too raw and damn near scared me to death…..however, I will pick it up again and soldier my way through because as grimy and gripping as it is, I could tell that this was a story about redemption and I so pro redemption. As a Latina that speak a speck of spanish, I will pick up Mama’s Girl by Veronica Chambers who is one of literatures most prolific and gifted writers. Clutch I so love y’all!!!
I caught on to the sherry argov books a while back and they will change the course of you life. gotta love the female empowerment books.