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Continue reading →: Remembering Nelson Mandela: 1918-2013
Nelson Mandela died Tuesday at age 95. He will be forever known as a humanitarian – a man who carried a message of reconciliation and forgiveness close to his heart, even after being jailed for 27 years, and consistently shared it with others. Mandela’s belief in peace and equality never…
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Continue reading →: Pharrell Is the Master of the Hook
This song is so simple, but so wonderful! I adore the message and the way it makes me smile. It’s got this gorgeous throwback feel, like music used to be, real and designed to make you bounce. Good times. And can he pimp a hat! Lawd.
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Continue reading →: Dear Lily Allen: Point Not Well Made
Okay, so a friend hipped me to Lily Allen’s new single “Hard Out Here.” I watched the video because my buddy gushed over Allen’s supposed statement for the piece, one of empowerment and a kind of middle finger to the music industry for trying to force women into skinny, cookie…
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Continue reading →: @justsanaa, you have my deepest shopping empathy. At least we know our weakness.
In November Ebony’s cover story on tomorrow’s release The Best Man Holiday, actress Sanaa Lathan says, “It was $500 a week. I have a shopping problem sometimes,” of her winning Instagram campaign for the film and writer/director Malcom Lee’s contest/internal promotion tactics. Preach. But I’m proud to say, I haven’t…
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Continue reading →: Poetic Justice – Women are taught to absorb. Men to emit… #diversity
A colleague passed along this video, and man is it powerful. In less than four minutes this young woman nails one of the main issues that contribute to women’s problems in the workplace: our inherited insistence on making ourselves smaller and less visible. It’s a poem, and I’m not a poetry…
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Continue reading →: India Arie Does much to Promote Black Beauty in New Video
Her lyrics say create the game and you create the rules, and I couldn’t agree more. It may be a struggle; but we who are different than the norms society puts forward – despite increasing levels of diversity in all realms of engagement – are up for the challenge. With…
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