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Spotting a HVM: What Did Priscilla Chan See in Mark Zuckerberg?!
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The Gift of Shame (Part 1): Is a Little Shame Always Bad?
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Question of the Week: “I Have No Idea How to Flirt!”
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Last Bikini Body Update: I DID IT!!
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Ask A Stylist : Rachel M’s Blue Skirt
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De-stigmatizing Mental Health, and Five Ways to Let the Sunshine In
Agree or Disagree? The REAL Reason Most Black Women are Fat
I can’t believe what I’m reading this Sunday morning in the New York Times. Alice Randall wrote in her opinion piece, “Black Women and Fat,” the key reason 4 out of 5 black women are fat is because…get this…THEY WANT TO BE.
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Baby News!! BB&W Crew Girl, ‘Bunny77′ Has a BUN in the Oven!!
Anybody who’s been around this blog for the past two years knows the wise and statistically-gifted ‘Bunny77,’ who has in the past, shared her experience meeting her husband through a little Jewish matchmaker, got married a little over a year ago, and BOOM! guess what? She’s PREGGERS!!
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Update on My No-Sugar Beach Body Goal; Whole Outfit Designed Around Tanisha’s “Red” Post!
Don’t know if you’ve taken Tanisha, our beauty and fashion editor up on her offer for a free “ask a stylist” consultation, but you dang-well should. Her recent posts about what reds to wear according to your skin tone FINALLY helped me find my personal ‘red,’ Make Up Forever, No. 42.
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True Story: ‘EarthJeff’ Gets Newfound Empathy for Racial Profiling
“I get it. People were just being overly sensitive. And yet…. until I was the one handing over my ID for pretty much no reason at all other than either the color of my skin or that of my colleague….. I guess I did NOT understand. I do now. Parked while white with black woman in car.”
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Horses and Hats oh My! What to wear at the Kentucky Derby
It is the Wimbledon of America–of course Wimbledon is Tennis but man do they love their hats; a place filled with amazing horses, fashion, and HATS!! Yes, hats! And old school tradition and fun.
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Red Hot for Summer, and Just in Time for a Date Tonight: How To Choose It For Your Skintone
RED, the hottest color of the season and my fave color is all the rage and on at least one page in every fashion and interior design magazine this year. This powerful girl has made amajor comeback and she isn’t letting lose.
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“Swirling” and BB&W Made it in Canada’s LEADING News Magazine–a Whole DANG Page!!
You’ll have to squint to read this, or get your old-lady monocle out, because we won’t be able to see the article in full until next week. But here’s what you need to know: Maclean’s, Canada’s leading and most-circulated weekly magazine (it’s like our TIME magazine) LOVES “Swirling,” the blog, and thinks you single black women should move the heck up there. And guess what? My buddies at Chonilla got a great quote in, too!
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Groundbreaking Columbia Study: Fear and Stereotypes keep Black Women out of Interracial Marriage
Black women in America are more likely to be unmarried than women of other races. They are also least likely to marry men outside of their race although a Pew Research Center report suggests that interracial marriage has more than doubled since 1980.
Released in February 2012, the report suggests that there are specific gender variations within some racial groups. Asian women are twice as likely to marry out as Asian men and Black males are more than twice as likely to marry out as their female counterparts.
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Double What Da Cuss: “Tanorexic” Mom?
Can someone PLEASE explain to me why New Jersey white women all what to look like umpa lompas?
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Would Barack Obama Have Become President If He Had Been Married to a White Woman?
This election cycle has been a bit juicy, for all the wrong reasons. Among other things, we learned that former Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum’s wife–Karen Santorum–shacked up with her abortion-providing boyfriend before she met Rick, fell in love with Jesus and then became a vocal pro-lifer. And now, in a new book titled ‘Barack Obama: The Story’ written by David Maraniss we get to hear about how Barack Obama was writing intellectual love letters to his white female college classmates in his pre-Michelle Obama days.
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Growing a Sexually Aware Young Person
There was no book to teach me how to accomplish what I felt was wrong with much of what occurs when it comes to the sexual growth of young people. As a mother, I wanted what most all mothers want and that is to have an environment for my child that was better than the one available to me.
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What the Cuss?! Politician’s Wife ‘Scurred’ Gay Marriage will Obliterate the White Race!?
What’s this chick want gay people to do, force themselves to mate with each other so when the race war starts?!
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Strike a Pose: How to Look Fantastic and 10 Pounds Lighter in Every Photo You Take
Ever wonder why you FEEL thinner than you look in your photos? Ever scurry away when someone pulls out a camera? Ever wonder if those Victoria’s Secret models have to see chiropractors after their photo shoots?
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Oh so Preppy and Nautical: Your Ticket Into the Yacht Club
Being cute a preppy is the beginning to your ticket into the yacht club. If you look and dress the part than obviously you ARE the part. With shows like Gossip Girl paving the way for us fashion mavens, I have put together a few looks to inspire you on your journey to preppy style, but before that, here are a few dos and don’ts.
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A peek into a damaged mind: The reason behind intra-racial hatred of black women confessed?
“The slave masters raped our black women for a long long time and black men sat back and watched, psychologically how can you blame black men for being inconsciously turned on by white women? Men forget that thier deep seated hate for the white man inturns make them want their women lighter skin.”
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