Wear Your Love For The Motherland On Your Lobes With These Designs
Earrings were as necessary to me leaving the house as washing my face and brushing my teeth when I was growing up, which may be why this particular accessory is still my favorite piece of jewelry to...
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View ArticleWhat Most Brides Wish They Could Change About The Big Day
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View ArticleBeyoncé FaceTimes With Teen Battling Stage Four Cancer
Ebony Banks, who goes by the nickname Ebob, has spent much of her senior year in the hospital battling a rare form of stage four cancer. Her biggest wish was to meet Beyoncé. She told Houston’s KHOU,...
View ArticleThings You Wish You Could Say To Your Personal Trainer
[caption id="attachment_822057" align="alignleft" width="1068"] Bigstockphoto.com/Woman with her personal fitness trainer in the gym exercising with dumbbells[/caption] If you’ve decided to hire a...
View ArticleSerious Question: When Is Divorce Acceptable?
I’ve known one of my best friends since freshman year in high school. It was our shared love for running track and the arts that instantly created a bond between us. Although we are alike in many ways,...
View ArticleAisha Hinds, LeToya Luckett & Luke James To Star In Series About The Murders...
USA is tapping some big names for their anthology series “Unsolved: The Murders of Biggie and Tupac.” Two-time Grammy nominee Luke James, fresh off the success of playing Johnny Gill in “The New...
View ArticleWhy You Have Bags Under Your Eyes And What You Can Do About Them
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View ArticleKandi And Tiny Are Still Getting Paid For “No Scrubs”
If you want to make real money in the music industry, you have to produce, write and own the masters to your creations. Thankfully, Kandi and Tiny learned this lesson early on in their musical...
View ArticleForest Whitaker To Produce New Angela Davis Biopic
In this day in age, when Resistance has got to be a way of life for any conscious person in America, we need to be reminded of the men and women who’ve laid the groundwork. There are several examples...
View ArticleSo What Did You Think Of Shots Fired Last Night?
Black officer. White victim. A community divided even before shots ring out in fictional Gate Station, NC. The opening of FOX’s 10-hour, limited mini-series “Shots Fired” sets the stage for a...
View Article“To Me, She Was Awful”: Gina Prince-Bythewood Originally Didn’t Want Sanaa...
Last night, the new Fox drama Shots Fired premiered. The project, starring Sanaa Lathan and written and co-created by Gina Prince-Bythewood, puts these two women together for the third time. They last...
View Article“It’s A Job. It Doesn’t Define Me”: Tamron Hall Speaks On “Today” Departure,...
While it’s unclear what exactly is next for the talented Tamron Hall in terms of sitting front and center at a news desk, she’s not second-guessing her decision to walk away from her post at the Today...
View ArticleShe Tried It! PlyoJam, The High-Intensity Workout That Won’t Make You Suffer
I was in the middle of a squat set early on in a fitness class at Athleta in the Flatiron District Wednesday evening when the instructor told us, “That’s enough; I don’t want you doing more than...
View ArticleKendu Isaacs Wants Mary To Pay For The Care Of His Parents & Two Children
It’s hard for me to keep up with Mr. Kendu Isaacs and his demands of his estranged wife Mary J. Blige. One minute, he won’t return the car, or the Grammys. He wants this much money and that much...
View ArticleCory Booker Asking Mindy Kaling Out On Twitter Is The Most Interesting Thing...
Not only is Twitter a place where you can share the mundanities of everyday life, get things, big and small, trending, and for many, a space where individuals gather their news, but it’s also a social...
View ArticleKonnichiwa! Black Women In Japan To Hold First Conference
Japanese is most often thought of as a very homogeneous society, but are Black women from all over the globe who have decided to make a home there. And two of those women, Avril Haye Matsui and...
View ArticleHow Dating A Narcissist Changes You
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View ArticleIs This Petty? I Refuse To Wear The Fake Designer Bag He Bought Me
As the saying goes, it’s the thought that counts. We bring up this phrase when we’re trying to state that one’s focus should be on the intentions the gift-giver had when they gave their present, no...
View ArticleMan Who Broke Up Fight In Viral Video Breaks Down Thanking His Mother As He’s...
By now, you might have seen the video gone viral of the man stepping in between two squabbling teenagers in the middle of a residential street in Atlantic City, New Jersey. If you haven’t, check it out...
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