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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 List

October 19, 2009

Get Your Finances on Track: Top Books on Finance

So you spent a lot of the governments change (not the free kind) getting your education, you haven’t gotten into…

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December 15, 2008

December 2008 Reading List

  • Quicksand and Passing
    Nella Larson
  • Imperium In Imperio
    Sutton E. Griggs
  • 10 Bad Choices: That Ruin Black Women’s Life
    Grace Cornish
  • A Mercy
    Toni Morrison
  • The…
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    September 1, 2008

    September 2008 Reading List

  • Around the Way Girls
    LaJill Hunt, Dwayne S. Joseph
  • Mommy’s Angel
    Miasha
  • Feel the Fire
    Adrianne Byrd
  • And on the Eighth Day She Rested…
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    August 1, 2008

    August 2008 Reading List

  • The Power of Now
    Eckhart Tolle
  • Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
    Daniel G. Amen
  • When You Are Engulfed in Flames
    David Sedaris
  • Destini…
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    July 1, 2008

    Jubilee

    Here is the classic–and true–story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern…

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    July 2008 Reading List

  • The Midnight Hour (Madaris Series)
    Brenda Jackson
  • One in a Million
    Kimberla Lawson Roby
  • Black Widow: A Novel
    Nikki Turner
  • Street
    Ann Lane Petry
  • Parable of…
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    June 1, 2008

    June 2008 Reading List

  • The Women Who Raised Me
    Victoria Rowell
  • My Jim
    Nancy Rawles
  • Shaking the Tree : A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir…
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    May 1, 2008

    May 2008 Reading List

  • The 48 Laws of Power
    Robert Greene
  • Married Men
    Carl Weber
  • Sugar
    Bernice L. McFadden
  • Them
    Nathan McCall
  • Fly On The Wall
    Trista Russell
  • Crack…
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    April 1, 2008

    April 2008 Reading List

  • All About Love
    Susan L. Taylor
  • Wifey
    Ki Ki Swinson
  • Looker
    Stanley Bennett Clay
  • 26a
    Diana Evans
  • The Amen Sisters
    Angela Benson
  • Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B.…
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    March 1, 2008

    March 2008 Reading List

  • Long Overdue
    Charles P. Henry
  • Leaving Atlanta
    Tayari Jones
  • Dead Broke
    Trista Russell
  • Rock My Soul: Black Folk and Self-Esteem
    Bell Hooks
  • Something on the Side
    Carl Weber
  • The Traveler’s…
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    February 1, 2008

    February 2008 Reading List

  • On the Line
    Donna Hill
  • Here I Stand
    Paul Robeson
  • Sellout
    Randall Kennedy
  • Quiet Strength : The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life
    Tony Dungy
  • Play…
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    January 1, 2008

    January 2008 Reading List

  • Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
  • No Disrespect
    Sister Souljah
  • Who’s Gonna Take the Weight: Manhood, Race, and Power in America
    Kevin Powell
  • White Lines
    Tracy Brown
  • PowerNomics :…
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    December 1, 2007

    December 2007 Reading List

  • Blonde Faith
    Walter Mosley
  • Crabs In A Barrel
    Byron Harmon
  • Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors
    Bill Cosby and Alvin F.…
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    November 1, 2007

    November 2007 Reading List

  • The Road
    Cormac McCarthy
  • The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
    Barack Obama
  • He’s Just A Friend
    Mary Morrison
  • Breaking the…
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    October 1, 2007

    October 2007 Reading List

  • Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous
    Rory Freedman…
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