As little kids, we would run around in gym class pretending to be Power Rangers. There was one guy in our class who would make Power Ranger watches for us out of notebook paper ["It's morphin' time!] but we'd spend half the class arguing over who...
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It’s Black Panther week, and in just a few days, we’ll all be staring at movie screens in amazement. But who is Black Panther, the characters close to him, and the actors who play them? Why is this film so revolutionary? Here is a list of...
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Let’s go back to 2017 for a minute: It was a great year for interviews. These were so beautifully done that when I saw, heard, or read them, I immediately said, “Dang, I wish I’d done this myself.” And because I spent 2017 kind of searching for...
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Warning: Mini “Girls Trip” and “Insecure” spoilers ahead. There are some women when asked “How are you?” will always say: “I’m good!” That’s me, and that’s Ryan from my new favorite movie of all time, “Girls Trip,” which I got to see with my FAMU BFF...
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31 was hard. Like “someone slaps you in the face” hard. And it was partially because I’d made a huge decision: the decision to stop running away from the issues I had with myself and be real about it all. I decided that it needed...
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Sometimes, when you’re feeling down, you’ve gotta show yourself what you’re working with. After hitting a mental roadblock and beating myself up about it, I unintentionally spent a week pushing myself to build my confidence back up in ways that were really, really physically challenging...
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It's the end of June, the unofficial end of spring graduation season, and I'm not gonna lie. It made me super nostalgic, and I started to think about my own graduations and the amazing feeling I had walking across the stage each time. I graduated from...
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I started off 2017 with a vow to be kind to myself, but lately, I haven’t been living up to that promise. In fact, I’ve been beating myself up about every little thing I do wrong: I eat a cookie when I’m trying to diet,...
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When it comes to radio, especially in our hip-hop culture, Angie Martinez is the G.O.A.T. You can't even dispute me on this one. So, when this amazing woman who I admire so much came out with her book, "My Voice," I jumped at the chance to...
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Well, kid. We’ve been at this thing for a decade now. And although we’re still trying to figure it all out, I wouldn’t trade being your mom for anything in the world. Thank you for giving me life’s greatest job, for filling me up, for...
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