Published on 4/20/2009 It’s becoming as American as the iPod: Adult intellectual stud achieves prominence after being born in Ghettoville,…

Sex had always been confusing to me. My sex education consisted of admonitions to keep my legs closed so as to avoid getting pregnant, the…

Young adult novelist Kate Hart embarked on analysis of book cover diversity in her genre last year. She discovered that only nine percent of…

From The Grio – The University of Michigan Law School in a joint project with Northwestern University Law School has released an…

Do not date a man who is not happy with his job. Do not date a man who feels inadequate about his ability to provide. Do not date a man who…

Compliments are a weird thing. Last week I cut off all of my hair. It wasn’t “the big chop” in the transitioning to natural hair kind…

Ah, sleepovers. Mani-pedis, hair accessories, prank calls and pillow fights, magazine-flipping, crush declarations, pizza, ice cream, Truth…

Remember the old party fail-safe, “Never Have I Ever?” A group would gather in a circle, red cups in hand, and start tossing off…

In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, the Queen recommends believing in impossible things. “Why,…

Last week, reports broke around the internet that the hosts of BET’s 106 & Park, Terrence J and Rocsi, would be exiting the show…

France just keeps building on its reputation of hypocritical racial intolerance. Right on the heels of the controversy surrounding the Miss…

As I hit send on my third work-related email for the day, I got a text from a friend. I think she sensed that I was spending my Sunday…

This rant is going to come off as hate but it’s really coming from a place of concern. If you haven’t yet seen Good Deeds or Think Like…