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Whitney Teal

Whitney Teal is a writer and editor in Washington, D.C. Her work has appeared in Essence, Sister 2 Sister, Heart & Soul and Business Week magazines and on the Web at Black Voices and Clutch. She edits a book blog for women, UptownLiterati.com.

Website: http://uptownliterati.com

Zoe Saldana’s Hollywood Case Study in Assimilation

by Whitney Teal April 30, 2010
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Thirty-one-year old Dominican-American actress Zoe Saldana  recently made People magazine’s Most Beautiful People list. 2010 has been quite the year for Zoe with magazine covers galore and a beauty contract with Avon.  All in all, she’s earned the dubious honor of being the movie business’ token Brown girl. I wrote about this briefly at Change.org, where [...]

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Terry McMillan in Twitter Trouble

by Whitney Teal April 14, 2010
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Terry McMillan, best-selling author Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, has a newly minted Twitter blog (@MsTerryMcMillan) that has become a hot ticket for for readers and writers. The author, who’s no stranger to real-life headlines, uses Twitter the way the rest of us do: to rave, rant and, occasionally, detail [...]

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Why Zora Will Never Die

by Whitney Teal April 7, 2010
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There are certain people who live briefly, but their influence and output remain in pop culture consciousness forever. Elvis, Warhol, Monroe and Michael, for example. Zora Neale Hurston, most famous for her May-December romance Their Eyes Were Watching God, isn’t one of those people. A Google search of the writer yields information about a festival [...]

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