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It’s like a broken record isn’t it? Pretty much every year an African American or two is up for an…

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Black women are some of the most beautiful women on the planet, with God-given curves that some go under the…

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Picture this: You are awakened with soft and gentle kisses from the glistening rays of the Saturday morning sun peeking…

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Mane & Chic is not your ordinary natural hair blog – it’s an eclectic mix of hair and fashion. Don’t get…

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It’s hip. It’s hot. It‘s totally fab. All the cool kids are doin’ it….going VEGAN, that is. And, one of…

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For my sisters in the struggle, my fellow prayer warriors who bum rush altar calls and wait, who bombard clergy…

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Have great fear. Tiger Text is here.

As if practicing fidelity wasn’t hard enough, somebody saw fit to create an mobile…

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My mother always taught me to pace myself…

Yet like the ticking of a clock, I hear the urgency in garnering…

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Ding, ding.

The Tavis-Sharpton on air fight over whether or not President Obama was going to have a black agenda started…

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You don’t need to survey five or six of your girlfriends and listen to their opinions. You don’t need the…

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My mother and my grandmother are like the father and mother I never had – my mother being the father,…

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I recently had the chance to sit down and watch Spike Lee’s 1986 film, She’s Gotta Have It. The main character,…

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It’s always interesting to see how power-deprived respond to new-found power or opportunity. If a group of people fought for…

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If there is any industry that has dominated Twitter’s public timeline, it is the world of fashion. Industry insiders from…

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Actress Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to win an Academy Award, winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing…

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Whether by the flicker of the television screen or the saturating effect of being broadcast as front page news, the…

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What to Do When You are Thinking about Turning Back to the Perm…

We all have been there – sometime…

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Meet The Baddest Brothers in Fashion

Look up “booted and suited” in the dictionary and, nine times outa  ten, you’re…

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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