Just as we were getting all excited about BET’s revival of the hit show, “The Game,” MediaTakeOut.com is reporting that there’s drama on the set. According to the site’s unnamed source, actress Brittany Daniel, who plays Kelly Pitts, and who is the only Caucasian lead on the show, is making nearly double the salary of…
Wintertime is filled with scarves, coats and oversized sweaters. With 20 layers on to keep warm, you might wonder how you might stay sexy and embrace your feminine side when you’re rocking 35 lbs of clothing. Sexy does not necessarily mean having to show every ounce of your skin when you are out and about. It’s…
Lauryn Hill performs @ 2010 A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s event in NYC.
TV shows come and go, but a great sense of style sticks with us. Over the years, we’ve witnessed some seriously trendsetting starlets grace our screens. Season after season, we watched their personal style evolve as we developed our own (but not without taking a few of their cues first!). Here are a few of…
We’ve all seen the headlines declaring the extinction of Black love, and the supposed war between Black men and women. From “Nightline” to The New York Times, the media has been obsessed with single Black women and their marriage prospects, all the while hinting at a colossal rift between Black men and Black women. At some…
I had my outfit all picked out. It wasn’t too revealing but showed off my athletic curves and was the brightest shade of pink my eyes have ever seen. But there was no way I’d wear this out. Sure I felt good in the confines of my Harlem apartment, but I knew it would be…
While the debates over Tyler Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s iconic choreopoem will continue long after the film’s theatrical run (and for the record: I have seen it and prefer not to comment about it), one thing most fans and critics of the film can agree with is the power of the original playwright’s pen…
The beginning of any sexual relationship starts similarly enough: meet, greet, a date or two or three or six, copulation and then off to the races. Somewhere in the “off to the races” portion, the couple gets to know each other’s likes, dislikes and, in many cases, families. Arguments show up too, which have their…
Renee Thompson puts in work. But “work” has not always reciprocated. She’s been modeling around the world for the past 10 years and is still searching for her big break. “I want to be the new girl who kills fashion week!” she chimes. Beautiful, tall, professional, and curvaceously slender: her aspirations seem tangible. However, reality…
This past week I was curled up in my bed watching a slew of music videos from the 80s and 90s. At first not paying attention to anything else but the ol’ school beat and catchy lyrics, I started to pay attention to all the young ladies in the music videos. I began to realize…
Cold weather is upon us—and you know what that means. Pedicures are fewer, tights and turtlenecks are widespread, and more razors are lamenting Player’s “Baby Come Back” than a Swiffer WetJet commercial. Long gone are the days of rooftop parties, barbecues, and weekend trips to the beach. With the cool weather also arrives a chilling…
Everyday, Racquel Johnson wakes up, steeps a pot of Earl Grey tea to accompany her lemon-raspberry scones, watches “The Today Show,” and proceeds to read through the millions of emails in her inbox from male interests; men privy to the profile she’s posted on a multitude of dating sites in an effort to find a…
On a recent episode of Style Network’s “How Do I Look?” entitled “Mistress of Darkness,” a stubborn punk-rock-meets-goth chick claimed her dark personal style reflected her personality. To challenge Melody’s claim, the show host, Jeannie, did an experiment. She set up a divider in a coffee shop and had random strangers sit on one side…
Before the Web, public discussions about difficulties between Black men and women took place maybe every few months via magazine articles in Essence. When the occasional “Why do Black men date outside the race?” article popped up, the piece would impact the community in the most benign of ways. These articles were harmless because, in…
