Black Women's Improvement Project (BWIP)

An Ugly African Secret: “Corrective Rape....

The notion is not as outlandish as you think......
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Mrs. “Don’t Bring Home a White BoyR...

Nothing we savvy ladies don't know already, but newbies, this one's for you....
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Shannon’s Story: Online Success on Afroroman...

AND ANOTHER reason not to give up on online dating....
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How Apropos: Girl Scouts’ “Watch What ...

We need a public service campaign all our own. Oprah, where you at?...
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Julie Chen and the Pretty Black Girl Threat

Julie Chen has got her claws out for real. Ladies, it's a harbinger....
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Attack on Education: Poo-pooing of College-Degreed...

Don't be fooled. Go get your tin foil hat because this is a conspiracy....
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Snoop Dogg’s Daughter “Ugly”? Ho...

Who could be so rachet as to call this pretty girl "fat and ugly?" Oh. Black people. ...
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“Is Marriage For White People” Book Gi...

So "The Benefactress" is at it again, and it's a good thing for the lot of you, because she's bought 10 copies of Ralph Richard Banks' Is Marriage for...
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Question of the Week: Why Do The Women in the R...

WHY do they even CARE? ...
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Mr. “Is Marriage for White People?” Hi...

Rick Banks clears up a few things. ...
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A Tale of Two Rainbeaus: What I Learned Just Sitti...

Two very different approaches from two guys who had the same goal....
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Teachable Moment: Why Beyonce Is No Fool and Color...

They met. They dated. They married. They conceived. In THAT ORDER, respectively....
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Beauty: Way to Represent the ‘Fro, Esperanza...

Glory be to God, Allah, Buddha and The Good Witch! A fly black chick with a big afro on the cover of New York Times magazine fall preview....
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Spinoff: Can Mothers Raise “Good” Blac...

Black boys are mollycoddled, black girls are told to put on a jock strap....
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