race matters

October 24, 2011 2

Will natural hair be added to this list? photo by David Lisbona via Creative Commons Back when I lived in [...]

October 6, 2011 2

We have lost another pioneer of the civil rights movement. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who led [...]

Jess McGuinty unveils the new look of Jessicurl at Fro Fashion Week At the Fro Fashion Week conference she [...]

Fro Fashion Week is underway in Atlanta, Georgia. Sadly I won’t be able to make it to Hotlanta until [...]

August 18, 2011 8

Yesterday Twitter and Facebook were abuzz about a recent Nivea for Men advertisement that features a clean [...]

August 12, 2011 6

I wrote the headline for this post before I saw the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s powerful [...]

August 3, 2011 1

Have you ever come across a new mole that you ignored for months, until it got so gruesome that you had to [...]

July 26, 2011 10

Years ago, back when I was a full-time reporter, I was on an elevator at work with two white colleagues when [...]

June 16, 2011 1

My summer haircut! Here in Alabama it’s been nearly 100 degrees for the past week or so and it’s [...]

May 18, 2011 2

To all my black, female readers, I’m sure you all have heard the news by now: we’re ugly. When I [...]

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