Happy Black Girl Day IV: Sistas and Sweets

Feminist Fight, Race Matters, Reader Contests

Happy Black Girl Day IV: Sistas and Sweets

7 Comments 12 May 2010

Happy Black Girl Day everyone!  I hope the crummy Spring weather isn’t keeping your spirits down! This month, I am taking a cue from DC District Diva and honoring a sister who is very much “the prototype” in my eyes, Michaela Angela Davis. From her official bio: Michaela Angela Davis is an expert critic and [...]

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All Fun Everything

Fine Arts, Life and Times of Sister Toldja, Mars/Venus, Race Matters, Reader Contests, You Should Be Here

All Fun Everything

3 Comments 11 May 2010

*Today’s post is sponsored by the joy I am STILL getting at seeing Kobe Bryant dressed like a jaunty house slave* Exciting news! The Modern Day Matchmaker LIVE tour is coming to New York city in just a few weeks! The real life “Hitch” Paul Carrick Brunson and author Nikki Notes will host a night [...]

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Happy Black Girl Day 3: Share Smiles! Win Stuff!

Feminist Fight, Race Matters, Reader Contests

Happy Black Girl Day 3: Share Smiles! Win Stuff!

9 Comments 14 April 2010

Happy Black Girl Day! When I came up with this little monthly holiday, I never considered the possibility that there would be a month in which I didn’t have one solitary ounce of happiness (or health) in which to celebrate. The whole point was to give us a mental break from the bad news stories, [...]

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Reader Contests, You Should Be Here

Event Represent: DC to Brooklyn b/w Beautiful Contest Winner Is…

No Comments 16 September 2009

Fam: I got the scoop on some dope events going down in my old stomping grounds and where my head (currently) rest at. If you are free, please go support some awesome creative-activist-community minded folks! THE BOOTLEG FESTIVAL: MIXTAPES, FILMS & HIP-HOP’S UNDERGROUND ECONOMYSEPTEMBER 16-19, 2009, WASHINGTON, D.C.4 DAYS. OVER 20 FILMS. 9 VENUES. 5 [...]

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Preserve The Pretty, Reader Contests, Reviews

Get With This/Beautiful Contest: nuNAAT Cream

5 Comments 10 September 2009

The humidity of summer is dreadful for my hair. Perfectly styled curls turn to large cotton balls after a few minutes in the sun. The fall offers brief solace, only to be followed by freezing temperatures and the accompanying hair breakage and drying of winter. Enter nuNAAT, a beauty company from Brazil (known for it’s [...]

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Dirty Pop Culture, Reader Contests

Songs In The Key Of Why/ A Beautiful Contest, Pt. 2

15 Comments 15 October 2008

As a 90′s music fanatic, I have a soft spot in my heart for Mary J. Blige. What’s The 411 and My Life are CLASSIC albums and I have many good memories attached to old Mary songs. However, right around the time “mainstream” audiences discovered MJB, I believe her music started to suck terribly. I [...]

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