Tweet Wayna ( Woyneab Miraf Wondwossen) is making quite a splash these days with her music. The Ethiopian-born beauty has another smash on her hands with “My Love“. Success hasn’t been the only thing to follow the Africa native, she was arrested last year in an airport for having a police baton (charges were dropped the next ...
Tweet New artists seldom make the splash that Nneka has made, but from her new album, you wouldn’t know this prolific songwriter was a neophyte. And, technically, she isn’t. Check out her “Heartbeat“. Tweet
Tweet Movie star Regina King is among a small cadre of African-American actresses we’ve literally seen grow up before our eyes (Janet Jackson and Cookie being among the others) on television. Born and raised in Los Angeles, it would be easy for King to be “Hollywood,” in all senses, but the 39-year-old actress is as cool as ...
Tweet If I changed the lyrics to one of my favorite songs, it’d go: “Dish water blonde, tall and foine”. Of course, blonde is optional, but the point remains: Having a little meat on the bones never hurt nobody. Of courst the backlash against the skinny little things that model women’s clothes have been going on for a ...
Tweet with the January inauguration of President Obama, you’d think this “post-racialism” thing would cool off by now and normalcy would reign.But racism, racemongering and racialism are all alive and kicking this year — one would argue that from recent headlines this has been the most racial summer since the civil rights unrest of the 1960s.Not ...
african queen, beautiful black women, first african american president, post-racialism, racismTweet When you think of the phrase “going natural,” it is common to assume that one means growing a ‘fro. But natural doesn’t have to mean a fro, it could mean braids, it could mean corn rolls, it could mind many things. Imagine if “getting a perm” meant that your hair was straight and only straight: ...
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Tweet The demand for diamonds has all but dried up worldwide, according to a New York Times story . But that hasn’t stopped the Russian-owned company from stockpiling them monthly and putting them in a vault. A woman that handles them says: “I’m not a robot. I sometimes think to myself ‘wow, what a pretty diamond. ...
Tweet This chick with more than a passing resemblance to Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child and Venus Williams is in the New York Times talking major trash about American celebrities who stretch their faces on big screens to wail for Africa. She’s from Zambia with degrees from Harvard and Oxford, And she may have a point. ...
AIDS, african queen, nubian princess, zambiaTweet Nicki Minaj says her debut album, “Pink Friday” will run the gamut of her life dealing in relationships. “This is...
Tweet R. Kelly has pushed aside all the raunchy swashbuckling, the R&B diss war and juvenile posturing in a new...
Tweet In what is shaping up to be a multifaceted marketing campaign, Beyonce is featured topless in the latest House...
Tweet In addition to the fly summer/fall/spring collections that the House of Dereon unleashes on the public, they also have...
Tweet There are wedding outfits, then there is Ciara’s outfit at the wedding of Lala Vasquez and Carmelo Anthony. I...
