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(My Mama and I) I felt real emotional and needed to get some thoughts out of my head (probably a combination of that and the end of the semester papers). So these next few words truly come from the h…

From primetime television to cable news, African-American women consume more media than any other comparison groups, and today, there is more mass and targeted content featuring African-American wome…

Photo by Ryan VanWilliams via Flickr Creative Commons Somewhere between the realms of extreme booty shaking and intense empowerment conferences, a very thin line exists. This barrier encourages women…

Image by Ryan VanWilliams via Flickr creative commons The presence of the divine nine has always been heavy and unwavering. For those readers who aren’t very familiar with the upstanding sororities a…

Image by Unknown via Flickr I’m here today to pay my respects to the black woman, because she was murdered. I’m not positive who the real culprit is, though I might have an idea: The Mammy said tha…

http://growpicture.tk/2013/10/15/introspection-is/ In college, I discovered that I am very weird. I enjoy reading more than I enjoy texting. I use Twitter like its Google News and not a celebrity cir…

Twitter is more than a social network for me; it’s a place where I can engage in thought provoking conversation with fellow nerds, blerds (the portmanteau term for Black or Brown Nerd), geeks, and bl…

As a child, I remember playing with dolls that where beautiful. But they never looked like me. Their hair, features and skin tones did not match mine. I always wondered - if my Barbie doll is beauti…

I struggle calling myself a feminist. As an African American woman, it’s hard to unify around a vague cause seemingly dominated by the white female elite. My hesitancy in embracing feminism as a Bl…

www.soulbounce.com Drop Dead Diva (2009-) a Lifetime television show, is a dramedy about a flighty model trapped in the body of a plus-size attorney. The show investigates the complexities surroundi…

I really hope you can’t relate to what I’m going to talk about in this post. That would mean you probably had a well adjusted childhood, a decent adolescent stage, and are now a happily functioning a…

As a 30-something year old black woman, I pride myself on having embraced my differences. This was not so much the case back in my mid-20s when I was struggling with my so-called "otherness&quo…

The Door of No Return Birthdays always make me nostalgic and I just had another one that has me realizing that I am almost to the middle of my thirties. Time moves too quickly. I remember 30 like it …