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BB&W Fitness Challenge Part One: Sign Up and You Could Win $100 Visa Gift Card!
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It’s Official (??) The AMA Says Obesity is a Disease. So Go Cut Out Your Stomach and Take a Pill.
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Halfrican: Being Black AND White in a Black OR White World
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The annoyances of online dating
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Opinion: Is Being Beautiful Keeping You Single?*
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Video: White Men Dish on Why They Love Black Women…The “Darker the Better??”
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Come Hither 101: Tracy Renee Jones Schools Us On How to Enchant the Opposite Sex!
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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‘Swirling of a Different Kind’: Interracial Adoptions…How Do Those REALLY Work Out?
Ever wonder what goes on in the mind of two white parents who adopt non-white children?
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A Mother’s Day Message To the Non-Mothers
Everyone has a mother, but not everyone has a child; and some people just don’t get into the celebration of certain holidays. But no matter what you’ll be doing on Mother’s Day, if you are a woman who thinks she may want to have a child in the future (whether or not you have one now) you can see the holiday as an opportunity for reflection and contemplation.
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As a Black Woman I Do Not Support Charles Ramsey!
This is my personal opinion and does not reflect the opinion of Beyond Black & White writers or the blog owner. You have probably all heard about Charles Ramsey, the Black man who saved three Hispanic women who had been kept captive by a Hispanic man for 10 years in Cleveland. You can catch [...]
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Leona’s Love Quest Part XXII- Learning How to “Get the Guy”
Let’s face it, my attempts at online dating have been a giant fail and it became my only resource once I got too busy to try anything else. It is undoubtedly time for a new approach, so I decided to take a closer look at Matthew Hussey. (Seriously, what woman wouldn’t want a closer look at those twinkling blue eyes, that dazzling smile and totally ripped bod?
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Expansion of Background Checks: Dead or on Delay?
Just a few weeks ago, a Senate filibuster led many to believe that the gun debate had ended for good. But, I’m not so sure the gun control debate is over yet.
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BET Heiress Marries a Rainbeau! Just Goes to Show Rich Folks Want Ratchet For Eveyone Else EXCEPT Their Own.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m THRILLED for Paige. I just wish that EVERY little black girl was cherished and protected and married off to a “perfect guy for her,” not just the daughters of rich men who are responsible for advocated a lifestyle that grants the exact opposite to “ordinary” black girls.
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Do We Really Want “Our Stories” Told?
I was just thinking the other day about the way some Black people online complain that they want to see more of “our stories” being told in the media (yes this is a First World Problem sort of post). Well what do you mean “our stories”? Black people are not a monolith and we have many different stories. But I have an idea of what you mean, you want more stories like “Precious” instead of stories like Condoleeza’s or Claire Huxtable’s.
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Beyond Black & White Featured on “Love J’s” On UStream!
Last weekend I had the BEST and REALEST conversation with just about the cutest couple I’ve ever seen, Justin and Joy, otherwise known as “The Love J’s.” We had a really great discussion about the blog, interracial relationships, black men and black women dynamics, and the astronomical out-of-wedlock rate in the black community.
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