Thriving

Twilight Zone: GAT-DL Doing the Swirl? Please don...

If you inter-marry and have kids that you plan to call just "black," it's time to take a remedial biology course....
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Pepsi and Bounce Need to Bounce! (EXCLUSIVE Interv...

Raise your hand if you're sick and tired of black women being portrayed as fat, mammy bitches. ...
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Guest of the Inner Sanctum: American Black Chick i...

"I grew up in Atlanta, aka Hotlanta, aka the black gay (male) Mecca, aka the WORST place for black women to date interracially. And that last one? Kin...
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Candy Tolentino: The New, NEW Black Woman

Forget that she’s gorgeous. And smart. And innovative. And a fellow LMU alumna (although that in itself is enough for me to luv her). She’...
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Candy Tolentino: The New, NEW Black Woman

Forget that she’s gorgeous. And smart. And innovative. And a fellow LMU alumna (although that in itself is enough for me to luv her). She’...
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Question of the Week: “I’m almost 30; ...

I just HAD to post this question in it's entirety--it's a bit long, but I don't care! SHE is why I write this blog everyday. SHE is why I'm writing ...
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Style: Do You Dress Yourself Blindfolded? Fashion ...

Exclusive interview with Brenda Kinsel, image and style expert extraordinaire ...
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Are You a Sh-Alpha? No Wonder He Didn’t Cal...

If you see yourself in this list, you may be doomed to live alone with 100 cats. ...
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Do Black Men ‘Hate’ Black Women?

The answer might not be as simple as you think....
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Real Advice from my Mother-in-law: Maximize Your R...

Sometimes, you can learn a thing or two from your elders....
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WARNING: ‘Mr. Chaos’ Comes in Rainbeau...

Nothing is coincidence and bad luck doesn't find you Dramisha, unless you're in an open field, in the middle of a lightening storm, flying a kite with...
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Lil Wayne is a BIG Pain: the dung that is rap musi...

Anyone remember how they got rid of all those gremlins? Because it's time to clean some house. And while we're at it, Lil Wayne's teeth, which by now...
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Newsflash: Not EVERY black man is a “KINGâ...

Just because you're black, does that make you a queen? A king? And what the heck are you ruling over because the black community is effed the eff up...
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Sophia A. Nelson Talked Me Off the Ledge!!!

Everybody needs someone whom you can babble on and cry like a two-year-old. Sophia's my play sister. ...
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