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GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO SOMETHING: An Empowering Collection of Sermons, Sayings, Status Updates and Tweets For REAL LIFE And EVERYDAY LIVING! Over 10 years as a pastoring, 20 years of ministry and social justice and a lifetime of caring about people through service, I have been capturing and captivated by words.  I have […]

This Year Will Be Different. We’re half way through January and some of our New Year’s Resolutions have yet to see the light of 2012. We knew they were faux resolutions when we named them, but we did it anyway. It’s not that we didn’t want to do things differently this year, we just weren’t […]

It’s Wednesday and Chesca Leigh’s funny Sh!t White Girls Say to Black Girls is continuing to prove itself a viral hit with over 5 million views. Her smart twist on the Sh!t People Say meme plays on well-worn cultural stereotypes. It gives us permission to label, laugh at and even challenge social norms. The target […]

Now for the first time, bestselling, award-winning authors Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, bring their favorite heroines together in SINNERS & SAINTS: A Novel (Touchstone Books / Simon & Schuster Paperback; January 10, 2012) which is bound to delight their fans. Are you TEAM JASMINE or TEAM RACHEL? Bestselling and award-winning novelists Victoria […]

By: Mikki Brunner Back in my day, politics were strictly forbidden to speak of around our holiday dinner table. Mom didn’t want me (lifelong left-of-liberal humanist) to catch a case for bashing my sister (lifelong bordering-on-‘birther’ conservative) upside the head with a turkey leg (blunt force trauma). So we played it safe sticking to topics […]

Our annual countdown of 2011 begins with the hottest books by some of the most talented and creative writers. These authors gave us something to look forward to when it came to good books, great stories, and intriguing plots. We came up with our list of books that kept us glued to the pages, and […]

Earlier this week Forbes contributor, and also (White American) Gene Marks did the unthinkable, and suddenly became a poor black kid. After reading his article it’s clear Mr. Marks has spent little, if any time with poor black kids, and little time considering the true sources of our nation’s achievement gap. I’m somewhat shocked he […]

According to Newsone.com, a recent study of Black girls across the U.S. has revealed 60 percent have been sexually assaulted by a Black male by the time they are 18 years old. The study by Black Women’s Blueprint, notes that this startling statistic is coupled with the fact that Black women are 35 percent more […]

What can you really say when your aunt tells you you’ve gained some weight when you arrive home for the holidays? This was me two years ago. I was infuriated and on the cusp of popping back with something unbelievably disrespectful, but thankfully I kept my thoughts to myself.  For one, I knew she might […]

Allison Hobbs is known for her titillating, salacious novels—Big Juicy Lips, Bona Fide Gold Digger, Dangerously in Love, and Climax. She published her 15th novel, PUT A RING ON IT, this past summer; fans can’t seem to get enough of this grand dame of erotica fiction. This fall, she returns with SCANDALICIOUS (Strebor/Atria Books; October […]

In this month’s general election, the state of Mississippi introduced one of the most controversial anti-abortion amendments to date. In amendment H.R. 212, Mississippi asked voters to decide if personhood begins at the point of conception – when a sperm meets an egg. The change in the state constitution would read: “every human being from […]