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How Do Black Women Respond When Someone “Pulls Rank”?
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Reason 20 Kabillion Why Wal*Mart Sucks: White Father Accused of Kidnapping Because Security and Onlookers Thought They “Don’t Match Up.”
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Vetting Aabaakawad
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President Obama Addresses the Importance of Personal Responsibility During Morehouse Commencement Speech
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“Young Teach,” Former BB&W Blogger is Getting Hitched!!
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Weekend Read:
How Do Black Women Respond When Someone “Pulls Rank”?
This post is a bit tricky because it deals with the issue of intersectionality. I strongly suggest people read up on the term and who is impacted. I say this because intersectionality is something that smacks black women upside the head from many angles depending on who they are, and how many different levels of privilege work for or against them.
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Vetting Aabaakawad
One prominent blogger has concluded that, because I made two short comments recently, on a couple of blogs, that were in poor taste, and because she kicked me off her blog four years ago, that I am the stealthiest of stealth concern trolls, spending years gaining you all’s trust so that I can pursue my true an agenda of “pissing on BW’s heads”. Then she uses me as an example of someone who has been improperly allowed to be a supposed ally due poor vetting by BW.
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President Obama Addresses the Importance of Personal Responsibility During Morehouse Commencement Speech
President Barack Obama gave the commencement speech at the only all male historically black institution of higher education in the United States, Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. President Obama could have made his speech about anything he wanted, but he choose to make a call to personal responsibility the foundation of the speech, which says a lot to those who are bothering to pay attention.
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“Young Teach,” Former BB&W Blogger is Getting Hitched!!
I’m totally over the moon! You regulars remember ‘Young Teach,’ the really cute music teacher from Tennessee who had recently acted upon his desire to date black women. So he started a blog, “Adventures of Swirl Man,” and bought “Swirling,” and read it in two days. He was a contributor here for a while, and [...]
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Abercrombie’s CEO Michael Jeffries Created a Public Relations Disaster When He Decided to Diss Fat People
It’s on thing for you to have unpopular rude thoughts running through your head; it’s quite another thing entirely to let those thoughts escape through your mouth and into the waiting embrace of a journalist’s microphone. Michael Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch (we’ll see how much longer he can keep his position), thought no one was paying attention when he let some of his ideas escape through his mouth, and now he and the company he leads are suffering due to his indiscretions.
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3 Ways to Wear This Spring’s Wardrobe Staple: White Tee
It would seem that you ladies are so NOT feeling the sporty trend. I can dig it. It is good to know your audience and I am happy to find that most of you are vintage souls. This will make it that much easier for me to create looks and posts for you.
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Health: Why I Never Want to Be Like My Mother.
Imagine having a diabetic mother that demands you go out and buy her a greasy cheeseburger and fries because what you have at your house is too healthy.
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Well It’s About Time! Kerry Washington Finally Lands the Cover of a Major Fashion Magazine
Kerry Washington’s role as Olivia Pope on the ABC hit Scandal is seriously causing her star to rise and she is finally getting the major media attention she deserves. Ms. Washington landed her first cover of a major fashion magazine when she snagged the cover story for the June 2013 issue of Elle Magazine.
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You Think You Had it Rough?! Check Out This WWII Swirl Couple
After reading this, no should should be complaining about how hard it is to swirl…
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What Types of People Marry Interracially?
Do any of you in BB&W land really see yourselves under one of these seven labels?
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What All Those BWE Bloggers Predicted is Finally Coming True…
Although I’m a single woman who isn’t focused on getting dates at the moment–but that could change at any second, because really, who knows when The One ™ will come calling–I still love to read the dating stories of other women, especially black women.
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Four Reasons to Turn on Your TV: Defiance, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and Scandal
SyFy’s Defiance, AMC’s Mad Men, HBO’s Game of Thrones, and ABC’s Scandal. These are the shows I watch religiously (or almost religiously) every week, which goes to show that there is good programming out there, you just might have to cobble that programming together from several channels.
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Retro Chic with Sandra D
The popularity of retro TV shows like Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, Vegas, and the buzz surrounding the summer release of the much anticipated The Great Gatsby, the retro look continues to increase in popularity as more women are sporting the hot fashions and hairstyles from a bygone era.
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Gabourey Sidibe on Jason Collins:”Every Woman Has Dated a Gay Man At Least Once”
Jason Collins, a black male basketball player currently signed with the Washington Wizards, came out as being gay in a cover story for Sports Illustrated. His story is being promoted as that of the “first active player in one of the four major American professional team sports to announce that he is gay.” Some are [...]
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