Archive for the ‘Black Women’s Improvement Project (BWIP)’ Category

48 “Real Housewives Atlanta” Makes Black Woman Traveling in Packs Look Rabid. But What’s the Real Story?

“Real Housewives Atlanta” Makes Black Woman Traveling in Packs Look Rabid. But What’s the Real Story?

Not sure any of you got a whiff of this fart cloud, but this is the clip from when RHOW of Atlanta went to South Africa. This a pack of ghetto black women put on display as something black girls should aspire to. OMF-inG.


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12 The New, NEW Black Woman: Issa Rae!

The New, NEW Black Woman: Issa Rae!

OMG how could she NOT be on this list? She’s beautiful, creative and hilarious, and has created a cult following with her Awkward Black Girl (ABG) web series. ABG Trivia: Did you know that all the “Gut Busters” scenes are filmed in her father’s doctor’s office? Speaking of doctors, everyone expected Issa to follow in [...]


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65 The New, NEW Black Woman: Kola Boof!

The New, NEW Black Woman: Kola Boof!

You may love her, you may hate her. But one thing is for certain, you will not forget her.


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11 The New, NEW Black Woman: Jeneé  Darden!

The New, NEW Black Woman: Jeneé Darden!

Reporter. Writer. Blogger. Jeneé Darden is the cocoa-colored Lois Lane.


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23 Candy Tolentino: The New, NEW Black Woman

Candy Tolentino: The New, NEW Black Woman

Forget that she’s gorgeous. And smart. And innovative. And a fellow LMU alumna (although that in itself is enough for me to luv her). She’s the brainchild behind Marry Me Already, a new dating site geared toward 100% marriage-minded singles. I’m sorry. I’m having trouble concentrating, because I can’t decide who’s gorgeous-er–her or her husband, Josh Black.


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17 Video Series: Maximizing Your Dating Options in College, Part II

Video Series: Maximizing Your Dating Options in College, Part II

Back on location at UC Riverside. Find out what these young women are doing that you might NOT be doing.


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47 New Video Series: Maximize Your Dating Options in College!

New Video Series: Maximize Your Dating Options in College!

BB&W goes on location at UC Riverside to find out how today’s youth are using (or not using) college as a vehicle to refine their search for a mate.


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26 Don’t Allow Facebook (or Any Other Ssocial Media Site) to Ruin Your Reputation

Don’t Allow Facebook (or Any Other Ssocial Media Site) to Ruin Your Reputation

If you are currently looking for a job, will be looking for a job soon, or think there might ever come a day when you will be looking for a job, you might want to go over to Facebook right now and clean up your account. Take down anything that you would not want a future employer to read.


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199 You Want to Get with Me? Show Me Your College Degree!

You Want to Get with Me? Show Me Your College Degree!

I don’t graduate until May and, if you ask some people, I’m already thinking in a bourgeois fashion: I would hesitate to date a man without a college degree.


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440 Survey Says: Majority of Black Women Interested in Interracial Dating, But…

Survey Says: Majority of Black Women Interested in Interracial Dating, But…

The Washington Post just published a very in-ter-est-ing feature based on a survey just released by the Kaiser Foundation dedicated to the study of you guessed it–us. What are we, lab monkeys? We’re “studied” and stuff?


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Get Over It! Rainbow Men Like Their Women Skinny!

Rainbow men, that is, non-black guys of varying hues, tend to prefer a svelte physique. Now before you get all huffy about having to give up your daily donuts, deep-fried Twinkies and 500-calorie mochachocalattechai (and then try to be all, “no whip cream!” about it), just hear me out.


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214 Gay Men: The Black Community’s Favorite Whipping Boys.

Gay Men: The Black Community’s Favorite Whipping Boys.

Our communities are plagued with rampant unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and poverty but these issues are ignored because it is so much easier for all concerned to beat up on gay people.


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41 The Debbil in the Corner Office: Your Boss is a Psychopath? Too Bad Corporate America Likes Them So Much.

The Debbil in the Corner Office: Your Boss is a Psychopath? Too Bad Corporate America Likes Them So Much.

It’s Saturday. Are you licking your wounds from the latest horror your boss put down upon you? You’ve got one more day to prepare your counter offensive.


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24 Brenda Thompson: Rainbeau Dating Over 40

Brenda Thompson: Rainbeau Dating Over 40

“A nice thing about swirling at my age is I don’t often have to worry about his mom or dad and what they think. He is usually living his own life and he doesn’t need the approval of his parents.”


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32 Social Graces 101: Manners and Social Graces in Courtship and Romance

Social Graces 101: Manners and Social Graces in Courtship and Romance

I wonder what the world would be like if men and women treated each other well in romantic situations, is it possible there would be fewer broken hearts in the world?


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Ghetto Nation: What Went Wrong in the Inner City Black Community?

Take a stroll in any inner-city neighborhood: On any given afternoon, you will see groups of able-bodied young men lounging carelessly on street corners, smoking marijuana boldly on street corners bragging about their bitches, whores and baby mammas. Although these young men show clear shiftless tendencies, throngs of ride or die chicks, sometimes with several children in tow surround them, taking loudly while dressed in pajama bottoms and dingy white wife-beaters complete with the proverbial head scarf.


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