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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RTOD: Domain Name Pain

I‘ve been going back and forth with myself for a little while now regarding the purchase of a domain name. I started this blog a year ago to give myself the opportunity to finally get serious about what I wanted to do with my life. I feel that I’ve done a consistent job with this [...]

 

Meg Whitman: Owned!

Classic piece of political jujitsu. Indeed, Jerry Brown’s tenure was from 1975 to 1983. D’oh! Go to Source

 

Failure Is Not An “Option”

For quite some time, President Obama’s passionate haters tried as hard as they could, organized as many fake volunteers as possible, and spent all the money they had to make sure his agenda would fail. When the Obama Administration labored to pass the 787 billion dollar recovery bill, several of the Obama haters used outlandish [...]

 

Please…Let It Be Spring.

You know, one of the big upsides of living in the Northeast used to be that we didn’t have to suffer from the Hurricane Season. Well, so much for that. Extremely strong winds and heavy rain pounded the Northeast this weekend, knocking out power to more than 450,000 customers, diverting international flights and toppling a [...]

 

On the Campaign Trail…For Health Care

In a move to build support from the ground up, Democrats are going on an 11-city bus tour with the hopes of rallying support for health care reform.  I don’t know about everyone else, but just the discussion of health care alone has gotten me burned out, and slightly overwhelmed by the complexity of issues [...]

 

BET Awards…

First off, let me say that I don’t believe the whole show was a waste. Their were some good performances (the O’Jays, Jamie’s tribute song to MJ, etc.) and good moments (Alicia Keys and Wyclef’s humanitarian awards, Janet Jackson’s incredible strength on stage, etc.) but everything else…everything else can pretty much be summed up in [...]

 

Amy Dalley To Release New LP In March

Amy Dalley Amy Dalley will release her new album, Coming Out Of The Pain, on March 27 via Rock Ridge Music. The LP was produced by Dalley and her husband Jack Sizemore, who is a member of Jason Aldean’s band, along with New Voice Entertainment. The sophomore project will showcase the singer’s [...]

 

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Motivational Monday – 5.21.12
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[Music Review] Great Boldness by Rod Jackson
Most people my age can agree that music isn’t what it used to be… It doesn’t really bother me because I love to listen to the old school stuff and can do without radio playlists.  However, when it comes to my son… well, that’s a different story. He doesn’t have the appreciate for the type [...]
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Ask a Bougie Chick – So I’m Dating this Black Guy…
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