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Two weeks before New Years Eve, my home girl Kimberly sent me a text about the house party she was throwing. “Make sure you bring a bottle and bring yo a$%, Shenequa! I know how you are,” she joked. I promised her I would show up, even telling her about the gorgeous outfit I was […]

As text messaging slowly takes the place of face-to-face conversations, I’ve noticed how easy it has become to avoid actual confrontation. You can express how you’re feeling using a few simple keyboard symbols and the rest is up to your imagination. The other morning my friend woke up and decided she was too hungover to […]

A few months ago, while on the coattails of summer’s craziness, I lived through a strange experience of friendship that left me to the tendency of some friends to take, take, take… and take. Call them what you may, I like to think of these types of relationships as “convenience friendships.” This particular story involves […]

"I'm a realist" is the phrase I hear a lot of people say when giving reason to rejecting optimism. However, being optimistic can pay off when you're in a bad mood and are trying to think the best of the situation.

My uncle married the same woman twice in his lifetime. Huh? Sounds crazy right? Breakups happen for all sorts of reasons like money shortage, complexities and demands of raising children, infidelity, or just plain ole’ lack of understanding about how to make it work but they are not always because the love is gone. When […]

A couple long weekends ago I found myself in the house of my lover’s best friend with a co-ed gathering. The conversation was dominated by the usual topic of sports, which artist has the dopest flow finished off with talks of their high school glory days. A sometime-ish sports enthusiast and as one who did […]

When it comes to sisterhood, it’s safe to say the loyalty factor plays a bit more of a bigger role in our bond. There are rules that simply have absolutely NO exceptions to them, they cannot be broken, fractured or even sprained–only severed. Not only that, but there is little to no room for flexibility […]

I remember being instantly transported into the twilight zone after reading an email a few years back from an ex who shared that he recently proposed to his new girlfriend. He revealed that he was to join his bride to be in the opposite end of the country to start their new life together. It. […]

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Beautiful food photography and dynamic page layouts make the nominees for the  2012 Black Weblog Awards Best Food Blog some of the most visually appealing sites on the web, and an illustration of the diversity and creativity of the Black blogosphere. Where else can you find the “Lois Lane of cupcakes” from Washington, D.C. competing beside two […]

Will, a friend of mine just got a major job offer, which will bump up his salary by several thousand dollars each month. For someone still in their late twenties, that is a very big accomplishment. When we went out to celebrate though, he wasn’t celebrating the hard work, long hours, loss of any semblance […]

I was just reading about a book by Patricia Morrisroe called Wide Awake: A Memoir On Insomnia, which is definitely an interesting topic because lots of people don’t even realize they have a sleep problem. I know that I get distracted on my laptop sometimes until 3am and that most people are asleep by then, […]

Say you’re on a blind date. You’re sitting at the bar, in your little black dress, hair pulled into a neat side bun with the red flower you said you’d wear peaking out from behind your left ear. You feel a heavy hand on your shoulder,  so you look down from the corner of your […]