Two Young Females Are Crossing the Street..

By now, we’ve all seen or heard about the video showing a police officer punching a woman in the face. It is ugly all around. But these women are not blameless. A Belle in Brooklyn has captured my thoughts exactly. There is no defending the actions of this police officer. But the incredible gall of [...]

Reflecting on The Moynihan Report

Sometimes the truth ain’t pretty. And we can’t ignore it or dismiss it just because we don’t like the messenger. Such was the case with the infamous Moynihan Report several decades ago. The report detailed what would become of the black community should the traditional black American family life continue to deteriorate. Columnist Clarence Page [...]

Reality TV and Black Women Don’t Mix

I have never been a fan of reality TV.  Actually, it makes my skin itch.  My mother swears by it.  She watches Survivor, The Biggest Loser, and various others I can’t recall by name.  These are much milder than the raunchy Real Housewives and Basketball Wives shows. In most cases, reality TV is nothing more [...]

Black Women….Not Enough

Not Enough Net Worth:   Apparently, a recent report “a leading economic research group,” social scientists are looking focusing on the financial plight facing African American women.  According to an article written by Tim Grant in The Post-Gazette: Women of all races bring home less income and own fewer assets, on average, than men of the [...]

All The Single Ladies!

Sometimes the single life doesn’t feel like a Beyonce video.  And as we learned from Race Talk’s Angela Stanley, it ain’t cheap either.  Shoveling duty over the last two weeks has also put me in the “yeah, I’m independent, but I could still use some help!” mood.  There is still snow on the ground but [...]

The Cost of Being Single and Childfree

It’s apparently more cost efficient to be married than it is to be single. Well, perhaps not in all cases, but there does seem to be benefits that are pretty good and, so far, largely unattainable for single people. Though many have delved into the financial pros and cons of being married versus single, few [...]

Black Men and Marriage

In case you missed it, Yolanda Young wrote an opinion piece in the USA Today on the much talked about issue of single black women, and asks, “what about the men?” As a single, African-American woman, I shrug each time a new pessimistic report comes out highlighting the dismal state of affairs for black women [...]

Which One Are You?

Several news outlets have reported on a new study from Black Entertainment Television (BET) Networks – who knew they conducted studies?   “African Americans Revealed,” is a study of more than 80,000 African-American consumers over an 18-month span broken down into several individual research reports.  The report findings include a segmentation study, which revealed that African-Americans [...]

What is Black Love?

What is Black Love? A simple woman like me would suggest that it is the love between a black man and a black woman. Perhaps that’s why there is such an uproar about Essence’s Black Love Issue with New Orleans Saints player Reggie Bush. For those of us not up on pop culture paparazzi news, [...]

No Black Prince for Disney’s Tiana?

Black women across America gave a collective “It’s about time” when Disney announced pre-production on a film featuring a black princess. Disney has traveled a long road to move from its early caricatures of lazy, big-lipped, bug-eyed, zoot-suited blacks to Princess Tiana, an energetic, smart and in-charge heroine. But as the national release of The [...]

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