Black Women In History: A Bill, An African America...

  By Stan Solomillo Carlotta Stewart in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, c. 1900.  (Original at Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washin...
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Carrie Updates Us On Her Date with Wes Murphy̷...

“Win A Date With Wes Murphy” By Carrie Thompson As I watched my laundry churn my mind drifts to a place of nervousness, ‘how well would I mesh w...
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Black Women’s History (Kissing the Asian Guy): C...

By Stan Solomillo   In 2007, a popular blog, “Sardonic Sistah Says,” noted that the resolution of the romantic interest between the l...
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Zara: Asian Men, Black Women…So Undesirable,...

I was 16 years old, and it was my first semester at my boarding school in western MA, USA. I was cold. I was always cold. I’m from the tropics s...
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Black Women in History: A Nineteenth Century Image...

By Stan Solomillo This albumin print of a young Afro-Peruvian woman is in the Library of Congress and was taken in front of a painted landscape in a p...
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Carrie: “Ulterior Motives: Are We Dating Interra...

By Carrie Thompson I lost my virginity to an 18-year-old white male named Tyler. Sick of being a virgin, I wanted to experience what the grapevine was...
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Black Women’s History: You’ve Got Somethin...

Written by Stan Solomillo (yes…the Stan…;-) ”Maria Gonzalez and Soldaderas.” “The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from th...
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Zac: “ I wish a muthaf#^%*a WOULD,” and Other...

By: ZacOnBothSides By now, you know about it, have heard about it, have seen it or were watching it: Kanye West, upset again about a Grammy he felt sh...
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Zara: ‘Bad Hair’ Blues – Not All...

I stopped chemically straightening my hair years ago – this was before the natural hair movement had taken off in the USA. I initially stopped ...
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Mamie: “I Am Damaged, But Not Broken.”

I woke up this morning and got ready for work and looked in the mirror for a bit. Such a mundane inconsequential action, looking in the mirror, but wh...
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Zara: “I Don’t Swirl, I Date.”

I don’t Swirl, I Date.  I have often wondered about the term, “Swirling,” ever since it made its way into everyday (US pop culture)...
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Leona’s Love Quest : Friends with Penalties

Leona’s Love Quest  Friends with Penalties Whether it’s possible for a man and a woman to be friends is an age-old question made popular by a sce...
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Mamie: Your (Black) Feminism Crash Course…

By Mamie Mooney As the saying goes,”You’re only as good (or as relevant) as your loudest idiot.” Unfortunately, feminism has had the...
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Ever Wonder What Millennials Think About Interraci...

By Shannon Rogers, BB&W College Correspondent Bridging the Gap: Millennial’s and Interracial Dating Aisha, 22, Senior: “I asked him: “Do you...
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