Got Mid-Length Hair? Consider Flat Twists To Protect Your Le...
Sometimes insomnia is a good thing, because last night while I was tossing and turning whilst complaining in my head about how my frizzy ponytail is doing little to inspire the man in my husband, I came upon a You Tube video that gave a brief tutorial about flat twists. In case you’re not in…
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Recognize Yourself? Five Signs You Are An Angry Black Woman...
By Elaine Flowers, BB&W guest writer We could use this time to go over all of the good reasons why black women should be angry, but I have always ...
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BYOP: Save Money at the Spa By Bringing Your Own Products!...
BYOP = Bring Your Own Products A day at the spa can be spectacularly relaxing, and spectacularly expensive. A one-hour massage can cost you nearly $20...
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Black Chicks All Look Alike…I Guess…...
This is kind of inane news, but at the time I thought it was funny. Watch this FOX sports correspondent mistake a random NASCAR fan as Donna Summer. Y...
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Video: Okay I’ve Had Enough! Black Parents, You’...
This is the second video I’ve seen this week displaying a black mother displaying UTTER CONTEMPT for her daughter. Watch if you dare. https://ww...
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BB&W Fan, ‘Dr. PhillyGirl’: How Internation...
We are always on the look out for great stories of black women doing great things. Luckily we have only the look in our own back yard. One on our re...
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Active Voice….....
Voice. Diction. Structure. Restriction. Nouns. Verbs. Adjectives. Words. Don’t pretend u can’t understand me at all. Pakistani Haitian Pat...
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Shocking: Do We Support Child Brides Or Child Sexual Abuse?...
Many in the world were horrified to hear of an 8 year old Yemeni bride named Rawan who died on her wedding night. The poor little baby’s body ...
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Beyond the Color Lines…A Tribute Anniversary Video of ...
Get your tissues out… Kizoa slideshow: Anniversary Tribute – Slideshow...
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OMG No Words. (NSFW) Well…Maybe This Could Encourage T...
My Facebook friend, Richard Miller brought this to my attention. At first I was like…WHAT? But then I thought, hey, the black community is so mu...
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A True WTF Moment…When a Gym Manager Tells a Black Wom...
So it seems that black women are damned if we do, and damned if we don’t, doesn’t it? By now, many of you have read about a true bit of WT...
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Surrender Versus Submission: What You Don’t Know Might...
All this talk of men, sex, and femininity, yet again, has got my mind sizzling with ways in which I might be able to explain to you what’s so aw...
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Author of “Black Girls Guide to Dating White Men”...
My buddy and fellow IR author, Niki McElroy, author of A Black Girls Guide to Dating White Men, recently took an 8-month ride on Tinder, the popula...
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Tune in Today to See Super-Cute Naturalista, LaToya Codner o...
If you’ve been on this blog any amount of time, you know I’m a stay-at-home mom. As such, it’s a requirement to watch soap operas. Y...
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Big, Bold and Beautiful: I’m Loving NeNe Leakes on Sea...
I don’t know how you feel about NeNe Leakes, or if you even follow the reality show fodder enough to know who she is. But there is one thing tha...
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Guess Who’s Coming to the Prom? EBONY Magazine Release...
Thank lawdbejeezus that today’s teenagers don’t have as many hangup about interracial relationships that the older folks seem to have. Acc...
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No Excuses! Six Good-For-You Plants You Can Grow Without a Y...
At some point, it will cease to be winter in the Midwest and East Coast and continue to be the never-ending summer it has been in California. Usually ...
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Femininity Series, Part One: “What Does It Mean to Be ...
The topic of femininity is so polarizing. On one end, you have women who feel like even the discussion of femininity is a threat to feminism, and wome...
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Monday Punday # 28...
Monday-Punday #28 SirLoin, an amateur maritime historian, offers the following tidbit concerning the offshore sailing log of the USS Constituti...
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DISGUSTING! Father Beats 13 Year-Old Girl, Mother Watches, R...
What I find most disgusting about this video is how the mother is so gleeful in her blood lust, egging this man (is he her father?) to beat her, calli...
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Halle Berry Rumored Split Leads Me to Ask, “At What Po...
Apologies in advance to #TeamHalle stans, but I’m scratching my head about the news that Halle Berry might be splitting from yet another partner...
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Iffy Belly? No Waist to Speak Of? Consider the Monokini...
I am one of those unfortunate women who does not have an hourglass shape. Yes; I’m slim and fit, but no amount of exercise and diet will change ...
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I Told Tyler Perry I Want to See More HEALTHY Swirl Relation...
I had the opportunity of a lifetime today to speak my piece to Tyler Perry and get the peanut gallery to admit that colorism plays a MAJOR role in the...
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Curvy Fashionista Talks Her Favorite Spring Looks...
Love this girl. Totally adorable. If you haven’t heard of the Curvy Fashionista, you’re way past due. Curvy Fashionista is seeing: White, ...
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Five Totally Unusual Ways to Travel Alone and Still Have a G...
I know who you are…I see the stats. You’re single, young, educated, and have some money. So why haven’t you traveled abroad to disco...
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Since You Asked…The Lipstick I Was Sporting When I Hel...
LOL not really. I just love writing salacious headlines. Marc seems like a nice guy, just…perpetually “confused.” On purpose. Anyhoo...
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Tired of Feeling Like the Dude? BB&W Fan and Friend, &#...
Let’s face it: gender neutrality is confusing. So let’s just celebrate being girls, shall we? Long-time BB&W fan, ‘Nicole Abunda...
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Thank God Your Statuses Are Worth a Dang! New Study Says Emo...
Better think real hard about what you write on your next Facebook status update. Your selfie could be the butterfly wing that starts the tsunami. Evid...
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In Case You Missed It: Me, Gina from WAOD, and Dr. Yaba Blay...
Let’s discuss!...
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