Literally speaking, do you know your worth? I recently, left my job. I quit for two reasons: 1) to pursue my dreams, and 2) I wasn’t…

I used to be one of those women. You know, the kind that would trade their left hand just to have steady commitment and security in their…

“Why are you doing this?” “To maintain my health, mostly. And I want to look really good. Is that shallow?” A new city, a…

I love you: two nouns and one verb, three words, a daring phrase. It attempts to express one of the deepest emotions ever known to man….

There’s no doubt that Tyler Perry’s work dominates Black film and TV and people are in need of more diverse programming….

I’ve called America home for almost a decade. And to this day there are some cultural things about Black America that I, as an African,…

Last week Marianne Gingrich tried to throw a bomb on the most bomb-throwing candidate in the race for the Republican presidential…

There is a verse in the great text of Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth called the BIBLE that says, “Seek and ye shall find.” And…

Ask any 10 millennial black women to list their favorite movies, and I’d bet at lest half of them will mention Love Jones, the 1997 film…

Your experience on Twitter is determined by who you follow. They dictate what type of information you’re consuming as you loiter on…

Why when you’re in the throws or on the crux of entering into a new relationship do you get that dreaded but inevitable telephone call,…

Maybe because dirty thirty is inching up on me, or perhaps because I have experienced the feelings of a pregnancy that did not materialize….

A part of me has always felt that the debate over the continued relevance of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) would come…

One day over lunch with a friend of mine, she mentioned how she and her boyfriend had begun serious talks of marriage and children. But,…

So, after years of using derogatory language to describe women, Blue Ivy’s father, Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter, has decided to…

My mother regularly told myself and my sisters that we should wait until we were 30 to get married. (Ignoring the fact that she married our…