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The morning after Muhammad Ali died, I couldn’t stop thinking about all the times he called himself “pretty.” A corner…
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Do public celebrations commemorating emancipation, heritage and history help to instill a private consciousness in the people of the communities…
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On Friday my mom and I drove up to the Evansville Museum to see the exhibit, “Posing Beauty in African…
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I recently came across a post on a Facebook page asking women what they didn’t like about themselves when they…
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When I saw the tweets below last night from Dr. Kaila Story, an assistant professor at the University of…
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On this last day of 2012, I’m sharing the moments from throughout the year that are most memorable to me…
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I was practically born coordinated. According to my mom, I walked before I crawled, and I tied my shoes at…
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Sometimes I read posts written as responses to something unusual and esoteric written online and wonder how the respondent found…
I love my First Lady. I was so pumped after watching her speech last night, it took me an extra…
I have rated myself against women I’ve never seen in person, who I see in the context of magazines and television shows, media whose true purpose is to reimburse their beauty product advertisers with my dollars.
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