Editorial Staff

Sore Losers Attack ‘Awkward Black Girl’...

Is it open season on black women who kick arse, or is it just me?...
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Hating On The Single, Successful (And Happy!) Blac...

Not surprisingly, everyone doesn't feel the same way I do and there are already people rooting for the demise of the show. "AJ," a commenter over at W...
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Black Woman’s Bill of Rights: Pride

Pride is "feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated,...
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‘Scandal’ Episode One and Episode Two ...

Is Oliva Pope destined to be single and alone?...
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The New, NEW Black Woman: Uneku Saliu-Atawodi

Beauty, brains, and ambition, plus athleticism. Uneku Saliu-Atawodi has it all, and she's just getting started....
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Nate*, The Cab Driver

"He glanced back over his should and looked at me. "Yeah, I didn't take you for the type to attend an event like that and I've only known you for abou...
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The Affordable Health Care Act of 2010–Will ...

Closing arguments have concluded by the questions have just begun. Last week the Supreme Court heard 3 days of oral arguments about the legality of Pr...
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Are “Fat” Black Women Really Unhealthy...

What's BMI have to do with it?...
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Godspeed: The Art of Agreeing to Disagree

The term godspeed literally means "an expression of good wishes to a person starting a journey". What kind of journey? In my case, a journey to the re...
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Forget the Ultra-Rich–Is The Meat Lobby the ...

Beef guts treated with ammonium hydroxide. Yummy. /sarcasm...
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The Black Woman’s Bill of Rights: Gentleness...

To some people, you are a hardened, non-feminine creature and a workhorse until proven otherwise. And even when you've attempted to establish you're a...
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Good Parent’s Are Not Afraid To Put Their Ov...

In the April issue of Vogue magazine, Dara-Lynn Weiss details her struggles with putting her overweight daughter on a diet. When a pediatrician told W...
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Shutting Up About Black Men (Part 2)

Why do black men continue to come up as a topic in non-black male-oriented spaces such as this one? The first part broached the issue, giving people t...
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What Actually Constitutes “Swirling”?

Who gets to make the distinctions?...
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