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From Sonic To The Super Bowl: Dancer Shalyn Provost’s Pursuit To Happiness...
As told to Michelby Whitehead I always knew I was good enough to pursue some form of entertainment. At the age of three, I was in dancing school which consisted of ballet, jazz, and tap. By the time...
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Women Of Black History: 5 Things To Know About Maggie Walker, First Woman To...
The daughter of a former slave and a butler (her biological father was an Irish-American man), Maggie Walker (1864-1934) bore witness to the large disparities between the lives of Blacks and Whites in...
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Let This Lemonade Rage Game Distract You From Your Work
I wasn’t really a gamer as a kid. I remember my sister and I had a Sega Genesis we played with a handful of times, most often when our cousins or family friends came over. I can’t say exactly why I...
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She Tried It! Foxybae Straightening Hair Brush
Last night, as I was setting my clothes out for today I thought about wanting to wear a full top knot but not feeling like going through the process of straightening my hair. And then I remembered the...
View ArticleWatch The Trailer For Amandla Stenberg’s New Movie Everything, Everything
Amandla Stenberg is building quite the resume for herself. After starring in the blockbuster Hunger Games series, she’s also slated to star in an upcoming project where she plays a biracial girl in a...
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Signs You’re Chemically Bonded To Your Partner
Countless studies have shown that when two people are in love, their body releases certain chemicals when they’re near each other. Dogs also emit many of those same chemicals when they look into the...
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Items You Should Lock Up When You’re Drunk
Don’t you ever wish there was a button you could push when you were on your way home, drunk in the back of an Uber, that would automatically make any problematic items disappear in your home? At least...
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New Edition Actor Woody McClain Clarifies His “White Is Right” Tweets
The recent New Edition biopic exposed us to an entirely new group of untapped talent. With the exception of Elijah Kelley and Luke James and Bryshere Gray, the rest of the members that rounded out the...
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Teyana Taylor And Iman Shumpert Put Their Love (And Appreciation Of Animal...
If you couldn’t get enough of the love (and sometimes raunch) fest that is Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert’s relationship on Instagram, you will be happy to know that the pair just obtained their own...
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How Shaniqua And Shikwanda Are Winning The Name Game
“My name is Shaniqua,” said a blogger I met at a luncheon in mid-town Manhattan. Shaniqua? I did a double take. She gave me her card. As soon as I got home, I was all over my computer, genuinely...
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Artist Celebrates Black History Month With NewWe Are Joy Series
The other day I saw I Am Not Your Negro, the documentary on the late James Baldwin. It was entirely narrated with his own words and it was magnificent. His grasp on language and skill with which he...
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Miko Branch’s Tips For Dealing With Natural Hair Discrimination In The Workplace
When the natural hair movement took root in the early 2000s, a woman’s natural hair journey was considered a very personal one marked by a path to texture acceptance and discovery of products that work...
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Hampton President Sends Letter To BET Admonishing Portrayal Of HBCUs In The Quad
While many of us can appreciate a bit of reality TV or messy but very real dramas (hey, TGIT!), some portrayals of Black culture and life on television are frowned upon as subjects for television shows...
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Is This Petty? I Believe There Are Times When It’s Necessary To Check A Man’s...
Earlier this week, Logan Hill, a relationship columnist at Cosmopolitan, was reached out to for advice to help a woman in a very interesting situation. She told him that her fiancé had another woman’s...
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Protecting Your Emotional Health From Friends Who Drain You
We all have called a friend to vent for one reason or another. But there comes a point when one should be able to assess the “mess” she is dealing with on her own and handle it accordingly. You...
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Marjani Beauty, The e-Commerce Site Offering Products For All Women Of Color...
Lack of options has taken the fun out of beauty for women of color for years. It’s only been in recent time that we’ve been able to choose between two different reds that look good on brown skin or...
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Women Of Black History: 5 Things To Know About Billion-Dollar Businesswoman...
As you know, not every person who makes Black history has to do so in the very distant past. Just look at Oprah, or Ursula Burns, or Serena Williams. Or for the sake of this post, entrepreneur Janice...
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You Are About To Witness The Best Part Of NYFW
Every year NYFW is pretty much the same, non-diverse and exclusive. You expect the same models to wear the same fashions and walk the same runways, but this year there was a pleasant surprise of the...
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Golden Love Warriors: Ayesha And Steph Curry’s Cutest Moments
For better or worse, Ayesha and Steph Curry have been looked at as #RelationshipGoals for some time now. Though most of us know little about the couple’s personal life, what they show us in photos and...
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Nicole Kidman & Lenny Kravitz And Other Celeb Couples You Didn’t Know Were...
In an interview with Net-a-Porter’s The Edit, Nicole Kidman revealed that after her marriage to Tom Cruise and before she met and married country singer Keith Urban, she was engaged to Lenny Kravitz....
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