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Our foreign neighbor Canada is known for producing unforgettable musical talent like R&B singer/songwriter/actress Deborah Cox, who swore to us…

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In the world of gossip, talk ain’t cheap…

What is it about gossip that draws us in? Better yet, how many…

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The value system that our society maintains ceases to amaze me. In this crazy world of ours people who deal…

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Sylvia Arthur sets out a few inspirational and enlightening facts to get your minds in gear to explore the big…

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Ever since Rodney Parker chased me round the playground of P.S.139, past the teeter totter, through the sandbox, all up…

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Imagine this…

You’re headed home after a long drawn out lecture in your evening college class. Cruising down the highway in…

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A celebrity is a famous person.
A famous person is one who has a widespread reputation usually of a favorable nature.
A…

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“No industry is black-owned. Actually, the (NBA) Player’s Association gets 49 percent of the revenue, since most players are black.…

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This issue of The Colorful Canvas Files is brought to you by a living legend whose contributions have led to a significant…

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Many of us set out to find that Mr. Right, but for some, he is always seemingly attached to some…

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My shrink said the strangest thing to me in therapy once. She said she was sorry she’d monopolized so much…

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Q: I am going back home for the holidays and want to wow my friends and family with a glamorous…

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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…

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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