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Abigail Allen, Perfectly Mixed, blog, writer, biracial, mixed marriage, swirling, movies, cinema, slavery, history, culture, empowerment, 12 Years a Slave, commentary, choices, pride, African American, African, Caribbean,

“I Love You. So Before You Tell Me Why I Sho...

That I think about slavery every day. And have for as long as I can remember. Every time I look into my eyes, big and brown like Harriet’s and Sojou...
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Nichelle Gainer, style, fashion, book, black women, history, inspiration, vintage black book

Vintage Black Glamour Is Coming to a Coffee Table ...

Beauty. Class. Style. Grace. Talent. Nichelle Gainer, writer and proprietor of the tumblr site Vintage Black Glamour, is set to publish a coffee table...
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Benedict Cumberbatch, 12 Years a Slave, plantation, economics, reparations, slavery, benefit, rich, history, equality, blacks, descendants, finance, Caribbean,

How Much, If Anything, Do the Beneficiaries of Pro...

Turns out Benedict Cumberbatch’s fine arse is the descendant of plantation owners who got super from owning sugar-cane producing plantation in t...
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slavery, antebellum, marriage, mixed marriage, black women, history, pictures, images, black history month,

Swirling In History – Colonial, Antebellum, ...

It is no secret that black women have been marrying interracially for centuries although some folks may want us to think otherwise.  It is simple fac...
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Ola Hudson, Slash, designer, Pinterest, style, historic, icon

Iconic Tuesday: May I Interest You In This Awesome...

Oh, Kittens! I’ve been a bad, bad, girl. I stumbled across this AMAZING Pinterest board days ago and have been been agonizing over whether or no...
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Getting Familiar with His Familia: Meeting His Fam...

The word family can either cause the average person to break out in a huge smile while feeling those warm and tingly reminders of all things safe and ...
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Blerds Gather Round: Come Hither The Nation’...

Y'all are working my pleasant attitude and so I do to you what I do to humans when I need to pretend that you aren't here....
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A Different “Defense of Marriage”

It's been suggested that we release "marriage" from government, give it entirely & symbolically over to religious institutions, and use civil unions u...
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This Article is for the Blerd: Star Trek And the K...

Check out the kiss that SHOCKED the country!...
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Mammy, The Mule and Equally Yoked: Black Women as ...

Celebrating the myth of the Strong Black Woman has mistakenly become an aspiration and an inspiration to those in certain demographics of the Black Co...
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TRJ on, “No Need For Permission: Because Som...

"When someone wants you to be less than what you are only so they can THINK they're better, you have a duty to your family and yourself to be all that...
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Education: There’s More to History Than the ...

New federal law to allow for instructors to teach more than the history of white dudes with powdered wigs and tights....
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Should We All Have Racial Amnesia? The Eternal Sun...

The most successful populations in America at Black/White interaction are adolescents and young adults. Our current black and white youth are connecti...
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Why No Love for Swirling Power Couples in Hollywoo...

George Lucas gives the reason. Click to see what it is....
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