Black abortion rate 3 times the U.S. average

November 2, 2011 No Comments

Tweet African-Americans account for 36.5% of the nation’s abortions while making up 12.6% of nation’s population, according to CDC figures reported by the Cybercast News Service. The statistic holds urgent significance in Mississippi. Next week voters in the state will go to the polls to determine and decide on a yes-or-no question regarding their state constitution ...

(1)ne Drop’ video rocks @ Kickstarter (VIDEO)

October 27, 2011 No Comments

Tweet The (1)ne Drop Project, led by scholar Yaba Blay is getting lots of play on Kickstarter, the pledge-driven incubator website. The One Drop project stems from a time when it was highly touted in America that if you had one drop of black blood you were considered black. That determination meant that you were ...

Study: Weave tied to baldness

May 6, 2011 No Comments

Tweet That new weave you wanted to rock? It could be causing baldness. That’s the word from researchers. Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, or C.C.C.A., is a type of central hair loss diagnosed only in black women, a new study in the New York Times reveals. The hair loss is also tied to Type 2 diabetes ...

Movie critics DESTROY Perry’s “For Colored Girls”

November 8, 2010 3 Comments

Tweet Coming in at third place (a solid $20 million take) after the weekend box office, it’s a wonder, based on reviews, that “For Colored Girls” even did as well as it did. Movie critics and Tyler Perry have never gotten each other. It took just his last movie for Perry to allow critics to ...

How to make a Caramel Macchiato

October 30, 2010 1 Comment

Tweet Coffee with caramel is a favorite when the weather gets a bit chilly. Here’s how to make it: The key to any tasty hot drink is the syrup. In this case, vanilla syrup. Add it to a cup of steamed milk. After the concoction is mixed adequately, add a shot of expresso. Then comes ...

Blonde Ambition: A gallery of blonde celebrities

October 3, 2010 2 Comments

Tweet They say blondes have more fun, of course, that usually applies to the accompanied accessory of white skin though. When you’re as brown as a mocha latte, things can go any whicha way. As you know, it’s a tricky proposition to go blonde. While not as bodacious as the Skittles wig movement currently in vogue ...

Black Women Hate Thugs

October 2, 2010 4 Comments

Tweet Believe it or not, black women, the ones that care, hate thugs. They have silently but publicly rebelling against the thug culture that has shaped their communities for at least two decades now. They are being turned on (and turned out) by other forces, some cultural, some racial, some political, but all of them, ...

Bald is Beautiful

May 18, 2010 No Comments

Tweet With individual style taking a back seat these days to cookie-cutter style, we thought it was high time we give a little love to those that decide to take it all off. No, not their shirts. This isn’t Mardi Gras. We’re talking about going bald, clean-shaven or close to it. And no, we’re not ...

Big and Fine: Full-figured is in

February 25, 2010 1 Comment

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 ...

More White Men Dating Darker, Chocolate Women

January 28, 2009 4 Comments

Tweet More white men are opting for the darker “more chocolate” black women. My circle of white male friends are all dating or marrying not just beautiful African American women, but dark ones. Of course, there is no hard data, but it’s obvious from casual observances in the bigger cities (and smaller) over the past ...

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