Growing up in the projects off of 8-Mile Road in Detroit, my mother prayed for one thing — not for an end to poverty, not for the safety of her siblings, not even for racial equality being a part of the first integrated class in her high school. The one thing she prayed for was “long hair like ...

  1. Parks had been thrown off the bus a decade earlier by the same bus driver — for refusing to pay in the front and go around to the back to board. She had avoided that driver’s bus for twelve years because she knew well the risks of angering drivers, all of whom were white and carried guns. Her own ...

I consider myself to be many things – friend, tech-life expert, daughter among others.  I like to think that activist falls somewhere on that list, but beyond the sporadic addition of my name to a petition on Change.org, I don’t regularly make very many causes a priority in my life.  So while it might seem as if the mantle I’ve taken up ...

By Kathy Henry Brainwashed Negro: A Black individual who has internalized every negative stereotype about Blacks and their culture and is seething with self-hatred and low self-esteem. This person usually believes that the only path to success and true happiness is to marry or assimilate into White culture, hoping to escape the sins of being born Black. One of the ...

By Onleilove Recently, a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology linking hair relaxers to fibroids in Black women was released and made its rounds on the internet, shedding light on the role that common habits can play in our health. Many of you may have read reports about the study but if you have not,  here is a summary of the ...

Statistics state that at the rate that obesity is effecting the Black community, by 2020 70% of Black women will be obese.  The rise of obesity of Black women may be attributed to the fact that many spend hours and a great deal of money weekly to bi-weekly on their hairstyles.  In one rigorous gym work out, a hair style ...

  By: Jenny Triplett, Prisonworld Magazine Floyd Mayweather plans to have one last hurrah before the doors are closed on his jail cell. The State of Nevada Licensing Commission has been lenient in granting him permission to fight, but he unbeaten champion still get not get his greatest wish: a showdown with Manny Pacquiao. “I presented Pacquiao with the fight,” ...

A hypothetical zebra.  Too black for the white kids, and too white for the inner city Black kids.  What is the station of the Black child who grows up in predominately white populated suburban areas? How do they develop a healthy racial identity? I grew up in Johnson County, a predominately white suburban area in Kansas.  For the first 14 ...

I find myself consistently fascinated at how angry and ugly women can be on Vh-1 reality shows. Rather than attempting to understand the inner beauty that makes a human being lovable, too many seem to think that attraction comes down to long hair, a short dress and a shapely backside. The women on these reality shows actually scare me. They seem determined to remain consistently angry at someone about something. There is almost nothing that would make me proud to have them as daughters, sisters or mothers in my own family. The idea that these women are serving as role models for an entire generation of young women is sad, sick and disturbing. "Unfortunately I do think that reality TV has spawned a whole culture of bullying," Phaedra Parks told the Associated Press