Way Over the Line
While many of us were beaming with joy at the way refreshingly kid-like Quvenzhane Wallis handled herself on the Oscar Red Carpet, someone at The…
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‘You Sho’ Is Ugly’
Those words delivered by Sug Avery to Miss Celie in the “The Color Purple,” are the most recognized and quoted lines from that movie. It’s…
LOVE… American Style
Well, it seems to be that time again. My first and not so subtle clue was the mandate by my 9 year old to find…
VIDEO BLOG: Single and Satisfied with Michelle McKinney Hammond
As a bestselling author, speaker, singer and television co-host, Michelle has authored over 35 books (selling over two million copies worldwide), including best-selling titles “The…
Your Blueprint to Your Best Life Ever
Designing and building your best life ever is not something you leave to happenstance. Just as you wouldn’t wake up one morning, decide to build…
VIDEO BLOG: Finding Love Online and Staying Safe
The puzzling Manti Te’o hoax recently unearthed by Deadspin stirred up quite the controversy, and it wasn’t long before people connected the news with “Catfish,”…
Motivating the Teen Spirit with Kim Grimes
It’s something that we all struggled to make sense of – the killing of 20 pupils and six adults by a gunman at an elementary…
OUT OF THE WOODS: Authentic Living In 2013 with author Monica Cost
People talk about being happy, successful and RICH but you don’t hear as much about people living an authentic life. We are constantly bombarded with…
Live Well, Eat Well: Ode To The Avocado
Well “ode” may be a bit dramatic but some of my fondest memories are of sitting on the kitchen stool, watching my grandmother neatly slice…
A Beacon of LYTE
You may know Brooklyn’s own Mc Lyte as one of the greatest female emcees to ever grace the mic. And she did it with creativity,…
