On blackgirlgrown’s Reading List

Career and Professional Development Perhaps 2008 was the Age of Obama, but today is all about women in the workplace.  Before the Shriver Report there was Womenomics by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman.  Instead of lecturing corporate executives and business leaders on political correctness, Kay and Shipman make the strong case for women in the [...]

Book Recommendation: Wrong Place, Wrong Time

What: Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men by John A. Rich Why: In a book review for the Washington Post, columnist Colbert I. King writes: The shooting of a young black male doesn’t make the front page. It’s most likely to appear inside the Metro section — [...]

A Belated Thank You: E. Lynn Harris

I remember reading my first E. Lynn Harris book, Just As I Am, in college. Color me shocked and wanting to put the blinders back on. E. Lynn Harris opened my eyes to a world I didn’t even know existed!   And I hated him for it. There it began, the “eyes wide open” outing of [...]

blackgirlgrown Reading List

Below are some of our favorite reads on a number of issues featured here on blackgirlgrown.  We’d love to hear about your favorite books and how they’ve made a difference in your life.  books available through Amazon.com black women: Maya Angelou’s new book, Letter to My Daughter, is a wonderful book and a quick read [...]

Courtland Milloy: What’s So Funny About Madea?

Courtland Milloy writes in The Washington Post: There is nothing funny about this black man in pantyhose. And where is all of this cross-dressing-black-man stuff coming from, anyway? First, comedians Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence star in high-grossing movies as the fattest, ugliest black women that Hollywood makeup artists can conjure up, and now here’s [...]