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Zoe Saldana, Amber Rose, Sessilee Lopez. These are women who identify themselves as Black, but, for many of us, the…

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I’ve found great difficulty unearthing the queer legacy of Black women, partially because the history of African people is so…

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Society has developed a vast interest in passing judgment on the subject of why Black women are single. Before, it…

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Just when you thought it was safe to peruse the internet, two new graduates of the Karrine Steffans Groupie Training…

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As a feminist, there are days when I question whether my actions fall in line with the basic principles of…

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This week, outside a café near Lincoln Center, my girls and I reflected on what this summer had been:

Waterproof…

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It’s been a thorn in the side of grammar snobs everywhere. Drop a wire into any conversation in any…

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While African-Americans are definitely the most influential people on the planet, I can’t exactly say everything we’ve brought to the…

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Let’s be honest. Do you ever compare your relationship to your girlfriends’?

Well let’s try taking the faults in your…

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“African American” has a peculiar application. If we were to take the literal meaning of the term, it would not…

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“Not every word needs to be uttered. Sometimes you must just hold your peace.”

The first time I heard those…

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On Thanksgiving 2009, I hit a man with my Totes bubble umbrella. He was an older gentleman but spry, White,…

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I really do love Black men. While I criticize them at times, it does not negate that love. However, sometimes,…

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When I declare, “I am a beautiful woman,” what image comes to mind? Am I smoothly brown-skinned with a figure…

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On the cusp of the millennium, several books by young Black women ushered in a fresh perspective on Black womanhood.…

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Well, I’ve been a super boyfriend. Well now, a super ex-boyfriend.

Yes, a super ex-boyfriend.

Do women not love the…

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I couldn’t stop staring at this girl. Swaying side to side, her voice was way too elevated and her friends…

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Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj are two of the biggest names in Pop music right now. Both women have made…

Daily News Feed 11.12.2009/Vocab: asseverate

Thursday Nov 12, 2009 – By Clutch

teeth-mike-tyson-400a071807Mike Tyson arrested in airport scuffle with paparazzo
Former boxing champ Mike Tyson was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge after a scuffle with a celebrity photographer who was following him at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Tyson, 43, allegedly landed one punch to the head of the paparazzo, sending him to the floor at the United Airlines ticket counter, airport police Sgt. Jim Holcomb said. The photographer was taken to a hospital for treatment of a cut suffered when he hit the floor, Holcomb said. (Continue Reading…)

Missing children problem spirals in Jamaica
With a significant increase in the number of missing children in society, head of Hear the Children’s Cry, Betty-Ann Blaine, is calling for the Government to launch an active missing-children’s unit in the Jamaica Constabulary Force. “The problem of missing children in Jamaica is now a major crisis of epidemic proportion,” Blaine said, while giving her report, at a press conference at The Pegasus Hotel yesterday. (Continue Reading…)

Over 20 million people need food aid in east Africa: U.N.
Drought and war in eastern Africa have left more than 20 million people in desperate need of emergency food aid, the United Nations said on Tuesday. “The situation is very worrying due to expected crop and pasture failures from poor rains in several areas, the increase in conflicts, trade disruptions and continuing high food prices,” the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. In its latest report on food and crop prospects (www.fao.org), FAO said delayed rains and dry spells often followed by floods had hurt crops and pastures in Kenya, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Uganda. (Continue Reading…)

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