Can Single Black Women Go Beyond Black and White?

by July 12, 2010

Beyond Black & White’s first month analytics boast a cool 33,000 hits, hundreds of comments, and avid readers asking its founder for more. Christelyn Karazin, a veteran journalist and PR professional, claims to have one solution to the “Lonely, Single Black Woman” epidemic. What’s she talking? Single black women need to open up their dating [...]

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Paige in Full: One woman’s ode to Love, Life,and Hip-Hop

Thumbnail image for Paige in Full: One woman’s ode to Love, Life,and Hip-Hop by Jessica Lynne July 9, 2010

I am in love with many things- literature, humid city evenings, Tahitian vanilla candles- but it is my romance with hip-hop that has left the deepest imprint on my heart thus far. To fall in love with hip-hop is to fall in love with the life rhythm of beats and breaks. To fall in love [...]

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Skin Deep: Alek Wek Inspires A BEAUTIFUL Woman to Love Herself [VIDEO]

by July 9, 2010

Admittedly, I am not a huge Tyra Show fan, but this particular episode featuring Alek Wek really tugged on my heart. Simply put, skin color hierarchies are still a reality for many black women. Although I am somewhere in the middle of our beautiful color spectrum and, thus, unable to directly relate, I have many [...]

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Black Power: Cultural Influence or Ownership [VIDEO]

by Ope Bukola July 8, 2010

Via JJP: Very interesting discussion between Roland Martin, Dr. Melissa Harris-Lacewell and R. Erick Michael Dyson on how African Americans exert influence. Should we strive for cultural influence or business/economic influence. I tend to lean toward the latter (they don’t say power of the purse for nothing) but the right answer is probably both. Much [...]

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Passion or Profit: Is Doing What You Love Smart in Today’s Economy?

by Ope Bukola July 8, 2010
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Forget Impossible is Nothing. They’re saying that some things are in fact not impossible. Those of us coming of age in the “Recession generation” may be the first American generation worse off than our parents. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the decisions we make in our twenties about how to work and what [...]

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The Black Bechdel Test: Stomp the Yard (2007)

by Patrice Peck July 7, 2010
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Starring Columbus Short, Brian J. White, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Ne-Yo, Chris Brown, and Megan Good. More than one named female character of color? Yes Who spoke to one another? Yes About something other than a man? Yes Summary: From the opening scene to the closing credits, Stomp the Yard takes the viewer on a turbulent [...]

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