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Tweet When I was in high school some 20-plus years ago, I was in the Upward Bound program at Howard University. This program had us going to school every Saturday during the school year and living on campus for six weeks each summer, so my participation in Upward Bound was compulsory thanks to my parents. [...]
Tweet So, this whole “Red Lipstick For Black Girls” has been an issue for me for a little while. OK, for a long while. Mainly because wearing red lipstick is allegedly yet another thing that Black Girls aren’t supposed to do. A few weeks ago, I asked around the Internet to see what other [...]
Tweet Anybody that knows me or follows me on Twitter/Facebook/Tumblr, etc. knows that my most favorite movie ever is Claudine, starring Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones. The movie was written by the late Lester & Tina Pine, and directed by John Barry. Claudine was released by 20th Century Fox in April 1974. I consider [...]
Tweet Stop acting like we don’t have a right to this collective anger. Anybody with a brain that thinks and eyes that see and nose that knows KNOWS that we have a right to this anger. The “Angry Black Woman” is angry for a multitude of reasons. We’ve been America’s favorite Whipping Girl since the [...]
