Right now, I’m enjoying Baratunde Thurston’s book, How to Be Black. Every afternoon, when I can carve out time to actually read instead…

Knowing someone’s political affiliation can easily be the death knell for any friendship and I’ll show you why. Take these examples….

I sat bewildered in front of my television screen last Monday evening entranced in an episode of VH1’s Basketball Wives. I’ll be the…

As women, it’s easy to find sisterhood in celebrating the many things we have in common. But the strength in sisterhood isn’t in our…

The statistics surrounding black men in prison are daunting. Of the 2.3 million people serving time in prisons and jails across our country,…

Over the weekend French actor Olivier Martinez confirmed that, yes, he is engaged to marry American actress Halle Berry. This would be…

All relationships are unique. But if there is one thing they have in common, it’s probably the way they start out. It’s that lovely…

Poly·an·dry: noun \ˈpä-lē-ˌan-drē\: the state or practice of having more than one husband or male mate at one time. Over the last…

On Monday, the documentary Invisible Children exploded the Internet and got everyone talking. Since its debut, over 40 million people have…

  Rihanna needs to do something about the men in her life.  First, we have Chris Brown, who I like to call the new-age Ike Turner,…

It’s the most tried and true — arguably — one of the most lucrative, and not to mention, oldest professions in the world. The…

I received an extremely interesting email this morning pertaining to the train-wreck that is Rush Limbaugh: Hi, Rush Limbaugh’s radio…

Think back, way back, to junior high. You’ve had a crush on one of your classmates all year and one day you get the courage to pass him a…