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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…

Reading Department

September 1, 2008

Palace Council

USA Today called Stephen L. Carter’s last novel “the perfect summer read . . . Carter slips in so many original,…

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Confessions of Rick James: Memoirs of a Super Freak

To fans of sassy and savvy urban music, the name Rick James will forever be associated with the mainstream emergence…

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Keep The Faith: A Memoir

KEEP THE FAITH is Faith Evan’s first person account of life at ground zero of hip-hop’s greatest generation. She’ll share…

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August 1, 2008

Life Beyond Measure : Letters to My Great-Granddaughter

Sidney Poitier is One of the Most Revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in…

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Take Back Your Family: A Challenge to America’s Parents

The stars of MTV’s Emmy-winning, top-rated Run’s House—dubbed “the new Cosby family”—offer a vital rescue manual for modern parenting.

An icon…

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Love Is Never Painless

Three prolific authors bring truth to the title of this heart-wrenching book, Love Is Never Painless, with a collection of…

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N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why

The debate over the N word touches almost every aspect of American popular culture: Does it ever have an appropriate…

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July 1, 2008

Sweet Love

“Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said thy edge should blunter be than appetite”

William Shakespeare

What goes together…

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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an…

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Just Too Good To Be True

Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere—a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family,…

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June 1, 2008

Not Even If You Begged

Widow Traci Evans happily sits in on meetings with the lovely ladies of the Invincible Sisterhood solely because they reached out…

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Passing (Norton Critical Edition)

Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature. Her status as a Harlem Renaissance woman…

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Purple Panties: An Eroticanoir.com Anthology

Zane, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Erotic Fiction, brings a new collection of lesbian erotica that…

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Push: A Novel

In an electrifying novel, a black street girl, sixteen years old and pregnant, again, with her father’s child, speaks. In…

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Love Is Not Enough: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Money

Let’s face it! Prince Charming and his bank balance, just aren’t coming to bail us out financially. ‘Love Is Not…

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