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Thank you Alice Walker. As I watched American Masters and listened to your words and saw images that brought your essence to life I cried. I was hit by something. Something from within and something from outside. I am saddened by my state as a black woman in America, event after your fight for our…

I peruse Yahoo ever so often for news and happenings. I decided to scroll through Yahoo Beauty’s page to see if their content reflects the diversity of this country and if it gave voice and positive images of African American women. I could count on one hand how man black faces I saw.   by

The media is permeated with images of black female promiscuity, ass, ass, ass, being objectified by men, and violence. The overriding message is to devalue black womanhood…and more ass. There are times when Black women in America are lost. There are times when Black women in America don’t know who they are, so how do…

Not having TV pushes me to watch all sorts of things and for the past month I have been re-watching Hey Arnold! About 3 seasons in I started to really notice the uniqueness and nuances of the main characters. That cartoon was revolutionary in how they presented different types of people, socioeconomic classes, races, ages,…

Kenyan-born Director, Peres Owino, tackles the controversial fact that Africans and African-Americans are creating a division amongst us based on fear and misconception. The ground-breaking and compelling documentary, Bound: Africans vs. African Americans, was featured at the 23rd Annual Pan African Film Festival and follows two metaphorical brothers. One brother disappears and was never found,…

I remember growing up where skinny was in. Skinny was everything. If you had any curvature you were akin to an unwanted dog. My skin, my body, my hair, it was downplayed, degraded, sullied, and talked about with disdain. As a child I was the little girl with the big butt. I was sexually harassed…

I attended the Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival tonight and was delighted that their opening night film was a documentary titled The Empowerment Project. The question they opened and closed the film with was What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail? The documentary chronicled an all woman film crew on a cross-country journey…

I had the pleasure of attending a Women’s History Month screening of the documentary You Belong To Me: The Ruby McCollum Story. Shouts out the San Fernando Valley Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and The Links, Inc. It was a story I had never heard before. An affluent Black women in Live Oak,…

After having a talk with a friend on a major relationship issue she was having, she shared with me that in a moment of desperation to get her boyfriend’s attention she called him “Nigga.” He took offense, she apologized, but once it’s out there it’s a scar and cannot be undone. She’s not Black and…

Once Upon A Time I Went To See 50 Shades of Grey. I only went to get out of the house to try to alleviate some of this funk I’ve been in. Never read any of the books. Never been interested enough to hop on the band wagon. From the start it was to be…