Thriving

Don’t Allow Facebook (or Any Other Ssocial M...

If you are currently looking for a job, will be looking for a job soon, or think there might ever come a day when you will be looking for a job, you m...
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Friday Funny: Welp, I Got Nothing.

Can't really laugh when I feel like crying, can I?...
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You Want to Get with Me? Show Me Your College Degr...

I don't graduate until May and, if you ask some people, I'm already thinking in a bourgeois fashion: I would hesitate to date a man without a college...
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Survey Says: Majority of Black Women Interested in...

The Washington Post just published a very in-ter-est-ing feature based on a survey just released by the Kaiser Foundation dedicated to the study of yo...
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Get Over It! Rainbow Men Like Their Women Skinny!

Rainbow men, that is, non-black guys of varying hues, tend to prefer a svelte physique. Now before you get all huffy about having to give up your dai...
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Gay Men: The Black Community’s Favorite Whip...

Our communities are plagued with rampant unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and poverty but these issues are ignored because it is so much e...
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The Debbil in the Corner Office: Your Boss is a Ps...

It's Saturday. Are you licking your wounds from the latest horror your boss put down upon you? You've got one more day to prepare your counter offensi...
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Brenda Thompson: Rainbeau Dating Over 40

"A nice thing about swirling at my age is I don’t often have to worry about his mom or dad and what they think. He is usually living his own li...
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Social Graces 101: Manners and Social Graces in Co...

I wonder what the world would be like if men and women treated each other well in romantic situations, is it possible there would be fewer broken hear...
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Jamila on BWE: Will You Be Going to See ‘Red...

Do black women cease to exist in George Lucas' new film? ...
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Ghetto Nation: What Went Wrong in the Inner City B...

Take a stroll in any inner-city neighborhood: On any given afternoon, you will see groups of able-bodied young men lounging carelessly on street corne...
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Jamila on BWE: Who Will Protect Black Womanhood?

I realize just how many books I have read about white women who led promiscuous lives throughout their college years or early twenties and yet still m...
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Does Sexy Have an Expiration Date?

Today is my birthday. Try as I may, I'm sitting here focused on the wrong perspective and "the real" meaning behind my turning 39 years old. I'm...
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