By Cleo Manago, CEO and founder of the Black Men’s Xchange (BMX) Cleo Manago, CEO and founder of the Black Men’s Xchange (BMX) From Rodney King, to Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and now Jordan Davis, Black communities have responded with hope while waiting for justice, only to be surprised again and again when justice did not come. The […]
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“If I had a single cookie for every time I think about you, I could eat cookies forever.”
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Source: The NorthStar News A larger percentage of black fathers help their children with their homework compared to white and Hispanic fathers, according a study released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Forty-one percent of black fathers helped their children with their homework everyday, compared to 29 percent of Hispanic fathers and
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(San Diego) January 14, 2014– In response to several complaints received in the past few months regarding bullying, the NAACP San Diego Branch Education Committee hosted a community forum encouraging to discuss the devastating impact bullying has had on it’s community. To gain a better understanding of the magnitude of the problem, and to develop
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By Rick Eastes, Guest Contributor It was a Saturday morning and we were driving into town. I do not recall that much about that morning before we rolled up to the stop sign where the Kansas Settlement Road meets the Dos Cabezas Highway on the way to Willcox, Arizona. I had just turned fifteen. I do
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“The Best Man Holiday,” scores #2 at the box office over the weekend, earning an estimated $30.6 million at the domestic box office. According to Box office Mojo, Universal is reporting that interest is strongest among female African Americans, which is consistent with other relationship comedies starring largely African-American casts. The studio expected
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In a press release, we learned that TV One keeps the drama of its wildly popular R&B Divas reality franchise alive with R&B Divas LA: Divalogues Special, a new special airing Saturday, October 5 at 10PM/ET. The one hour show, born out of the network’s highest rated Divas franchise R&B Divas
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(Los Angeles, California – September 18, 2013) In an ideal world, young girls of color would be showered with infinite messages of self-love and self-acceptance reflective of their inherent and immeasurable worth. They would be inundated with a plethora of affirming role models urging them to reach for the stars just within their grasp.
For those of us who follow award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph on Twitter, she hooked us at the phrase she uses to describe herself, “Right where I should be!” Spoken like a true DIVA. Based on her impressive body of work clearly, Ralph is exactly where she should be. TV One’s popular docu-series Life After,
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For the record, I am not a psychologist nor an expert in Gender studies. And, I certainly know that there’s much more to learn about life. But what I do know is: I am a woman who’s discovered her worth through many trials and errors. There is an epidemic in our society and within
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