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Feeling Green? Six Tips to Help Get Over Jealousy
When St. Patrick’s Day rolls around, you just can’t escape green. Even if you don’t wear it (and want to risk getting pinched), it’s still everywhere from store windows to menu specials to parades on TV. But that’s okay—on March 17th, green is good. “Irish†green is associated with happiness, celebrations, shamrocks, and the Emerald Isle. Too bad that’s not the case the other 364 days of the year!
According to Todd Patkin, most of us normally experience green in a much more negative way: through envy. And that’s definitely not a good thing.
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Why I Wish Matthew Hussey Was Around When I Was Single and Miserable.
His obvious hotness aside, this guy really know his stuff. I mean, really. I just read his e-book, “Secrets of the Male Mind,” and honestly, this is the first time I’ve read advice from a man’s perspective that had no perceptible whiff of horse manuer. Too bad what I found within was so late coming, because it would have saved me a lot of heartache and used condoms before I met The Hubster.
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Author Says Organized Religion Has It All Wrong
Have you ever (like me) sat through a church service and listened to some doctrine that seemed to be way out wacky, or search as you might, you couldn’t find a single verse in the bible that told you that you couldn’t dance, drink, have sex and like it, or that it was absolutely mandatory that church ladies over the age of 60 must wear hats like the Chiquita Banana lady?
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June Book Discussion!! “Substitute Me”
We talk a lot here about the ‘mammy’ stereotype, the sexless black woman who cares for the household and is absolutely NO competition to the lilly-white mistress of the house. This story ain’t like that.
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Author and Professor Found Love & Marriage Travelling Overseas; Talks Colorism in Latino/Asian Swirl
Danielle Belton Talks Light-Skin Fetish, Politics, Bi-Polar, and Being ‘The Snob’
Foxy Black Chick Arielle Loren Packs it Up to Brazil!
Arielle packs it in and is pursuing her dreams in Brazil. Find out how she’s getting it done.
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Relationships Doc Says “Betas” are ‘Betta.’
When it comes to long-lasting happiness, this relationships doc shows you the way.
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Author Spotlight: The Notorious Kola Boof Talks BWE
You all know her. But if you don’t, you should try digging yourself from under that rock once in a while.
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How to Date an Asian Guy (Warning! Rated “R” for Racy.)
I have to say, I AM LOVING my girl, JC Davies’ book, I Got the Fever. Â What I like best is how she organizes the dating experiences of each race–Hispanic, Asian, Indian, Jewish and Black– by chapter and section. Â She gives frank talk on what you can expect–from dating, to family and even sex. And [...]
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BB&W Exclusive: Steve Harvey’s Ex Dishes to Author, Shanae Hall
It’s interesting how some things come together. Just yesterday, I posted a video of Steve Harvey and his new trade-in on CNN, lamenting that the community “has lost a generation of black men.” But today, we peel back a few layers of the stinky onion.
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Sophia A. Nelson: Black Women and the “F-word”
“Black Woman Redefined” author, Sophia Angeli Nelson talks about why we are often described as the offspring of a donkey and a horse, and what we can do about it.
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Author Spotlight: Carolyn Vines “Black & (A)broad†AND!! BB&W FIRST Online Contest!!!
If you’re a broad (aka kick-ass chick) and black, and your live in the Netherlands, I mean, what other name, Black & (A)broad, could be MORE PERFECT?
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BWIP: Herb Way Makes Us Look GUUUUUD!
I’m just mad I didn’t make the cut. All this yoga and protein shakes…somebody take a CLASSY nekkid pic of MEEEEE!
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Ralph Richard Banks Joins the Commenters at Beyond Black & White
“… I have been struck by how vehemently some black men oppose black women’s efforts to expand their options to include men of other races. … All this while black women confront the smallest pool of viable partners within their group. Yet some suggest that black women should…wait for a black man, put their life on hold, or put up with relationships problems that would never wish for one’s own daughter. I try to understand this, but frankly it puzzles me. Women may regard black men as brothers, but those brothers don’t love them as sisters.” — R. R.Banks
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