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History: Swirling for the Sake of the Children (an...

By Stanley Solomillo  African, Asian and multiracial adults with monoracial, biracial, and multiracial children standing in front of an unidentified ...
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Has Feminism Killed Our Marriage Prospects? Contro...

Since I’ve started blogging, I’ve heard lots of rumblings from young women that guys today are just…different. Dates have become ...
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Totally Awkward Conversation with Jay Smooth Chall...

OMG…if you haven’t yet seen this conversation between Jay Smooth, host of “Underground Railroad,” a popular radio show in New ...
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Check Us Out: Alex Barnett and I Have Hilarious Co...

  If you haven’t yet heard of comedian, Alex Barnett, I feel sorry for all the laughs you’re missing. Alex, a lawyer by trade and a f...
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New Study Points to Parent’s “Over Pra...

Who could forget this scene from the Nutty Professor?   Turns out that sort of blind praise (telling your kids their better than everyone else an...
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The Latest Film and TV Projects Featuring Black Wo...

There’s been a ton of news over the past week about film/television projects featuring black women. We’re everywhere! From developing horror films...
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Issa Rae, Jacque Reid and Others Talk Interracial ...

A section of the Nightly Show featuring Issa Rae, Jacque Reid, Christina Greer, and Marina Franklin where the host and women discussed interracial rel...
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Kid Rock (Crudely) Highlights How Preferences Can ...

Kid Rock is seriously spreading some haterade towards Beyonce, with his recent criticism of her success and openly wonders how she can be so big witho...
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Black Women In History: A Bill, An African America...

  By Stan Solomillo Carlotta Stewart in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, c. 1900.  (Original at Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washin...
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Black Women’s History (Kissing the Asian Guy): C...

By Stan Solomillo   In 2007, a popular blog, “Sardonic Sistah Says,” noted that the resolution of the romantic interest between the l...
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Octavia Spencer to Star in Biopic of Mary Seacole

  Do you know the story of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican woman who worked alongside Florence Nightingale? Her  contributions during the Crimean War a...
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Black Women in History: A Nineteenth Century Image...

By Stan Solomillo This albumin print of a young Afro-Peruvian woman is in the Library of Congress and was taken in front of a painted landscape in a p...
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Rick and Maya Reunion of “Bold & The Be...

I’ve been following the relationship of “Rick and Maya” for some time now, but if you need some background click here and here. So&#...
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Black Women’s History: You’ve Got Somethin...

Written by Stan Solomillo (yes…the Stan…;-) ”Maria Gonzalez and Soldaderas.” “The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from th...
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