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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While You Were Sleeping…

The skepticism of government and government activity can make it easy to forget sometimes how much work goes unnoticed by Americans. Such as the arrest of three terrorism suspects due to an ongoing investigation.  These men targeted in the investigation of course are innocent until proven guilty.  And until I see the story develop, I [...]

 

Writer Spotlight: Aliya S. King

Aliya S. King is a freelance writer, author and social media consultant. She’s held editorial positions at The Source and Vibe, and she has contributed to several other publications like Upscale, Vibe Vixen, King, Teen People and many more. She is also the author of the upcoming beach-read, Platinum, and she co-wrote Keep the Faith [...]

 

Free D/Ls: Lux // Arkells // Fenster

Lux Lux released a cover version of Black Tambourine’s song “Black Car” earlier this week. It will be featured as a hidden track on the Seattle-duos album, We Are Not The Same, which is slated to hit shelves on April 3. But fans have the opportunity to both hear and download the [...]

 

Brandelyn’s Favorite Things

Oprah inspired me once again and I wanted to create a blog about my favorite things. I am going to try some new things here with pictures and links…so…ahem…lets see how this works. I present (in no particular order)…     Brandelyn’s Favorite things…   For Spiritual Inspiration:   Joyce Meyer’s Everyday Life Bible   [...]

 

Relationships are like finding a good outfit

When I worked in retail, it would frustrate me to no end when a woman would come in, find the perfect dress/outfit and say, “I love it!  But I am going to keep looking.” Did this mean that she really didn’t love it or that she was convinced that she would find something that she [...]

 

LOUD: “Put On” Young Jeezy ft. Kanye West (07/24)

Hip-Hop embodies many things, and it wouldn’t be right without the presence of a few deserving cocky personalities, songs, and anthems. We have called it many things throughout the evolution of hip-hop, but I imagine for now we have settled on “swagger.”Like rap battles on the underground circuit, where many lyricists perfect their craft and [...]

 

Julien Breton| The Light o’ Calli+Graphy

Introducing: Arabic calligraphy and light painting- my new fixations. Julien Breton, a Nantes, France-based artist, was the first light painter that exposed me to this awe-striking mergence of techniques . Check out more his work @ Kaalam.free.fr Album artwork for JM Video courtesy of Digital Slaves @Vimeo Images courtesy of Kaalam.free.fr Inspiration via/ Kissmyblackads.blogspot —————— [...]

 

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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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