A New Year’s Dawn By Reggie Legend

A New Year’s Dawn By Reggie Legend

For those that are single (or are in relationships but acting like you’re single), be careful who you hook up with as you start out the new year.  Realizing that some of the craziest parties are getting lined up to b/ring in the new year, does it not make sense that they may attract some [...]

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What I’m Not Gon’ Do In 2012

What I’m Not Gon’ Do In 2012

what i’m not gon’ do in 2012 this year, i am choosing not to make any resolutions. instead, i am going to talk about what i’m not gon’ do in the new year. 1. apologize for who i am and for the choices i make: i tend to be a people pleaser. choosing to apologize [...]

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Resolutions Schmesolutions

Resolutions Schmesolutions

how many people make a resolution each year? How many of those same people break that resolution within the first month? I personally never make a new year’s resolution. I don’t see the need. for some people this is a way of setting goals, but oftentimes these goals are either too broad or too unrealistic [...]

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What Is Your Ideal Vacation? By Gresham Harkless

What Is Your Ideal Vacation? By Gresham Harkless

My idea vacation is to be with my family going to some place out of the country.  For my ideal vacation, I would love to be able to go sight-seeing and do some adventurous things.  At the end of the day, I want to be able to see things and meet people that I would never have [...]

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Success Requires Sacrifice By Jarrai Stephens

Success Requires Sacrifice By Jarrai Stephens

Jarrai Stephens is an Internal Auditor for the Department of the Navy. Best described as “rare and rarely forgotten,” she is an outgoing, charismatic, results-driven lady with swag. This morning I breezed through my usual morning routine: woke up at 5:30 am, watched the news while getting dressed, rode the 6am bus, transferred metro lines, [...]

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Would you accept a position with less pay but doing something that you love or more pay but you hate what you do? Gresham Harkless

Would you accept a position with less pay but doing something that you love or more pay but you hate what you do? Gresham Harkless

Gresham is a freelance writer and entrepreneur.  He graduated from Howard University and Georgetown University. He regularly blogs at his personal blogProgreshion.com……, edits documents at Exemplary Editing and contributes at Hearpreneur.com….  He has been published in the PW Business Magazine, The Prince William News & Messenger and Patch.com…….* “Would you accept a position with less pay but [...]

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Success Is The Work Of Your Hands

Success Is The Work Of Your Hands

Brandelyn N. Castine is the author of 2 novels, Everybody Plays the Fool and U.G.L.Y. She is also the author of Spoken Silence, a volume of poetry and dreams are not concerned, the forthcoming volume of poetry and prose due out June 2011. Please visit the website Website: www.beencee.com… or follow her on Twitter: @BeeNCeedotcom. ["Usually there's a deeper truth submerged [...]

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Filthy Rags To Riches by Reggie Legend

Filthy Rags To Riches by Reggie Legend

We’ve all heard the saying – often uttered out of a sense of humility and Biblical scripture:  “Well, we’re all just filthy rags!”  Well what if it could be revealed scripturally that this mindset is wrong?  I’ll not delay the revelation of scripture until the end of this entry; rather, I’ll just quote it directly [...]

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It’s Not As Black And White As You Think By Crystal Marie

It’s Not As Black And White As You Think By Crystal Marie

*I’m Crystal Marie and I’m the writer for www.awordorthree.com….  I like to say I’m the sole member of “Team Awesome,” but that’s just crazy. All the people that read my blog, follow my tweets, friend me on Facebook, etc are also awesome. As you can see, I’m also modest. Me in Threes   Dane Cook, Kevin [...]

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Are Interracial Relationships Still Taboo? By Bengemin Grehe

Are Interracial Relationships Still Taboo? By Bengemin Grehe

If they aren’t, then why even ask the question?  Clearly some degree of taboo has to exist for situations occurring like the one in Mississippi right now.  They’ve never been taboo to everybody everywhere, and so I suppose the issue is subjective to the relative parties and their immediate environment.  But racism still exists and so long as [...]

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25 Ways to Deal with Stress as an Entrepreneur

If you own your own business, I’m sure you know that stress can be a common occurrence in your life. And while a little stress is okay and can even be beneficial, too much of it can have not-so-great effects on you. Stress can cause headaches and migraines, fatigue, sleep problems, sadness, depression and a [...]

 

Pink Cloud

There is one pink cloud in the sky. It is floating by itself where everything else is dark and ominous and gray. I like that cloud, it is special to me. I appreciate its tenacity, like somehow someway it knew that the only way it could survive would be to find a way to find [...]

 

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JeyFREE | Adorns the World with her FREEdom

Jeyfree Jeyfree, hailing from Houston, TX is a what I’d like to call beauty, brains, and business- with an uber generous splash of CREATIVITY to boot! With her rather unique upbringing, of being raised soley by her English grandmother in the Bronx, NY, she was exposed to the arts at an early age. I believe [...]

 

Ludacris – "O Lets Do It" Freestyle

A freestyle from Ludacris to Waka Flocka Flame’s song “O Lets Do It”.  Not sure if this freestyle will be featured on his upcoming mixtape, The Conjure though.  He has a solo album expected to drop this year entitled Ludaversal.  No word on the Battle of The Sexes album he had planned with Shawnna. Ludacris- [...]

 

So you want to be an entrepreneur?

If you can relate to many or all of the following traits and you have an idea you really believe in, you might be ready to become an entrepreneur: Optimistic. The road to entrepreneurship isn’t easy. You’ll face many challenges ranging from having low funds to a small client list. But the business owners who [...]

 

Curve ALERT! Fashion fits ALL

Fashion for the bitsy ones, fashion for the hippy ones. One size fits ALL is the new fashion mantra, so, at least that’s what photographers Terry Richardson & Solve Sundsbo believes. And, so, I adore, because here at Queen Tahj, we celebrate the diversity spectrum of beauty. Beauty is a size 2 and beauty is [...]

 

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Neverever Premieres New Single ‘Mexicoco’
Neverever Neverever recently premiered a new single from their Shake-A-Baby EP, which was released via Slumberland earlier this month. “The EP is loosely about the likes of child brides and sugar empire heirs either reluctantly growing up or simply choosing not to. Clinging to pre-teen and adolescent freedoms, Miss Teen Californian girlfriends, [...]
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The Game Season 5 Episode 3 Recap
The Game Season 5 Episode 3 Recap The Black People Episode This episode opens with Tasha hosting a sunbeams meeting in her penthouse (she moved out her big house because she says that it was too much for just her and she wants something smaller and to focus on Malik’s career). Melanie [...]
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Five Smart Ways to Leverage Your Brilliance for Faster Success
By Sheri McConnellYes, You Are Brilliant Right Now Just in case a little voice in your head said, “Oh, I don’t have brilliance to leverage…” I want to laser focus in where you are at for a moment and show you how you are brilliant and your life is full of possibilities right now. So, [...]
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