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August 24, 2009 at 7:00am

By alexm

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Topics: Empowerment, Politics, racism

Mandela’s 8 Lesson’s of Leadership

In honor of Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday last year, Time Magazine published an article on Mandela’s Eight Lessons of Leadership I encourage you to read the article… But I thought I would share the lessons that I found most poignant No.1: Courage is Not the Absence of Fear, it’s Inspiring Others to Move Beyond It [...]

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August 10, 2009 at 10:22pm

By alexm

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Topics: black feminism, Empowerment, Media, Patriarchy, Pop Culture, Women

The Problem with “America’s Next Top Model”

A couple of months ago a good friend of mine asked me to accompany her to America’s Next Top Model auditions here in chicago….

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August 6, 2009 at 2:49pm

By Supernerd

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Topics: Beauty, Empowerment, Hair, Men, Politics, Power, Sex

Blacks and BAD HAIR

I am looking forward to the theatre release of this comic documentary Good Hair about black folks’ obsession with ‘good’ hair. Chris Rock’s drive to start this project came when his daughter asked him why she didn’t have good hair. My best friend feels that “most people don’t think about [hair] in terms [of self-hate] as much [...]

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July 30, 2009 at 2:32pm

By Supernerd

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Topics: Empowerment, Leadership, Politics, President Barack Obama, racism

Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations: Part 2 Leadership

There is a problem with leadership in America, particularly black America. From every angle when we think of our leadership there are three main themes (i.e., the problematic, the self-aggrandizer, and the bad). Leadership is a tricky thing when you think about it. No one is at birth (here in United States of America) [...]

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July 29, 2009 at 4:48pm

By Jonathan

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Topics: Empowerment, Homophobia, LGBTQ, Love, Masculinity

A Gay Man’s Struggle: “Why DL?”

One of my friends came to me this week and told me one of those stories that make you shake you head in disappointment. My eighteen-year-old male friend (For Blog purposes we will call him Timothy) was approached and asked out on a date by an older man (We will call him Bernis). Bernis was [...]

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July 20, 2009 at 9:36pm

By alexm

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Topics: Empowerment, Media, Music, Women

The Beauty of Perserverance

As I was perusing twitter the other day, I came across the following link that was posted by @afrobella. The video is of Lauryn Hill performing at the Apollo in 1987, getting boo’d off stage (yes back in the day you could boo at kids). As a person who has chosen writing as her lifelong [...]

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July 17, 2009 at 7:14am

By Fallon

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Topics: black feminism, Crying, Empowerment, Girls, Patriarchy, Women

The Meltdown: Judge Sotomayor . . . It’s Okay to Cry??

Surrounded by white men in suits. Cameras flickering then flashing. Hands laid flat upon table. Nodding pensively. Swinging pendulum of opinions “we are happy” to “we have many reservations.” Judge Sonia Sotomayor listens as senator after senator summarize their thoughts about her appointment to the highest court in the land . . . a court [...]

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July 6, 2009 at 9:22pm

By Fallon

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Topics: black feminism, Disney, Empowerment, Fairytales, Girls, Women

I Don’t Won’t to Be No Disney Princess!

Like most little black girls growing up in abusive homes, I dreamed and sometimes daydreamed of being rescued from my reality. I wished I had a fairy godmother who would flick her magical wand singing, “Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo. Put ‘em together and what have you got bibbidi-bobbidi-boo,” changing my alcoholic father into benevolent king, [...]

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