Advice for Young Girls Looking for A Way Out

Life Isn’t Fair: It’s a statement of fact.  And while you should fight for fairness and equality, you’re best served personally by understanding this truth.  Whether because you’re black, Latina, a woman, physically challenged, or poor, there will be reason for people to root against you.
Commit Yourself to Excellence: Given life isn’t fair, commit yourself [...]

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 same race, [...]

What are You Passionate About?

That’s a question I ask would be suitors. It’s more illustrative than “where do you work?” You find out more about a person and less about how they pay the mortgage.
Me? I believe that information is power. And my personal goal is to learn as much as I can and share that knowledge with others.
That’s [...]

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 [...]

Zen Habits: Curing Email Insanity

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow him on Twitter.
The beauty of an empty inbox is a thing to behold. It is calming, peaceful and wonderful.
An inbox that is overflowing with actions, urgent calls for responses, stuff to read … it’s chaos, it’s stressful, it’s overwhelming.
A friend recently posted:
“Help! I’m drowning in email!”
Let’s look at how to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tax Time: Home Office Deductions

Requirements Checklist: Ask yourself the following to see if you are eligible for a business use of the home office deduction:
Is your use of the business part of your home exclusive, regular, and for your business?   
To qualify under the exclusive use test you must use an area of your home only for your trade [...]

Save Some Green for Living Green

I’ll admit.  I am on a learning curve when it comes to living green and saving energy as you can note from the drought of living green articles on blackgirlgrown.  But when energy efficiency means more money in my pocket I tend to listen.  Case in point – Tax credits for energy efficiency.
The Department of [...]

You May Only Be A Year Old But You’re All Grown Up

Written by Ms. Kimberly.
Happy Birthday blackgirlgrown! On the one hand it’s hard to believe you’re only a year old, but on the other hand you’re all grown up!
I remember that day in the not-so-distant past when blackgirlgrown’s creator announced that she was going to launch this website. If memory serves me correctly we were [...]

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