If I could quit my job, buy a pick-up truck with a megaphone attached and spend the rest of my days shouting from the top of my lungs and paraphrase one of my favorite bell hooks quotes ” Strength is not the ability to overcome, but endure,” I would. It is such an important concept for black families to understand—black women are not here to live their lives shouldering the … [Read more...]
10 Dating Tips for a Grown Black Woman
Karyn is back on the dating scene. Divorced. Kids are grown…in college. She spent all her 20s —30s — and half her 40s raising them. Now in her late 40s, she’s on that health-food kick. She’s lost a couple of lbs. And now guys are hawking. Karyn currently falls into a station in life where a lot of women have passed through…or will pass through sooner or later. They had … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Monique Caradine of Chicago’s WVON Presents The Black Woman’s Manifesto 2012
Monique Caradine who hosts a talk show on Chicago's WVON 1690 AM recently released her Black Woman's Manifesto for 2012 and we love it. From MonquieCaradine.com: Too many black women on TV appear to be making a concerted effort to hijack our image and set us back 850 years! I'm talking about the reality show, so-called housewives of this, that and the other. Their … [Read more...]
If I Had a Daughter
by Gwen Jimmere If I had a daughter, I'd teach her that her black is beautiful 366 days a year, 8 days a week, 25 hours a day. I'd teach her that she is to be proud, yet grateful, to have the distinction of being a black woman. That she is to be honored, yet humbled to reside in this hue of greatness. I'd sit her in front of a mirror every day and rave about how high her … [Read more...]