“Is that your friend in there?” an older doctor with thick glasses asked as my friends and I were leaving my boyfriend’s hospital room. “I hate to tell you this, but it would take a miracle to get him out of here.” That doctor did not...
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From Black Friday to Small Business Saturday to Cyber Monday, this is the weekend to do some online shopping and support some really dope Black businesses. I have some suggestions on who can keep you fly all holiday season, and you can easily check them...
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[inlinetweet prefix="" tweeter="" suffix=""]Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it. — James Baldwin[/inlinetweet] I’m grateful for a lot: my life is good, my family is good, my God is good. So in addition to keeping my...
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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves. — Barbara Corcoran I thought 2016 was going to be my year. I didn’t just talk about it either. I worked my butt off and it’d seemed, for a...
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A few months ago, I started to cry and I couldn’t stop. I had a lot of commitments, too, and I couldn’t stop those either. I’m a journalist, a writer, a social media consultant, an entrepreneur, a mother, a daughter, a big sister, a mentor,...
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To me, podcasts are God's gift to my earbuds. There's nothing I love more than turning on a well-crafted piece of audio journalism. It's my thing and it's some of the best storytelling known to man. So, my current obsession is Making Oprah, a WBEZ podcast...
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Behind every successful woman, is a tribe of other successful women that have her back. I'm late watching movies [like a solid year-late late] and I just watched Joy — the movie loosely based on entrepreneur Joy Mangano who created the Miracle Mop and then went...
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This week, I got the chance to work with my big sis Trina of Baby Shopaholic, to help design her holiday gift guide, done in conjunction with Mimi of Unlikely Martha. As far as gifts go, Trina literally knows all and her style is impeccable. She's...
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The following is a bit of a throwback from a site I created last year, but decided not to keep pursuing. The content, though, still applies. You’ve probably heard someone describe the stock market as a bull or bear market, right? Well, those terms can actually...
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They say when a place changes you, it becomes a part of you. South Africa, or so it seems, has become my heart. Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever...
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