The Mis-Education of the Negro

I oftentimes wonder how many of us have read the classic texts shaping the African American experience…and how many of us have just “heard about it.”  Have you read Carter G. Woodson’s The Mis-Education of the Negro?  Fortunately many texts are now available in the public domain and available online.  blackgirlgrown will periodically post sections [...]

Guest Post: An Important Distinction in Many Successful Relationships

Dialogue from Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown: Louis Gara (Robert DeNiro): You trust Melanie around your business? Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson): She’s trying to play you against me, huh? Louis: Yeah. Ordell: See, I knew it. You ain’t have to say nothing, I know that [woman]. Louis: I don’t understand why you keep someone around [...]

Understanding College Football

Compliments of Guest Blogger Heels and Helmets: It’s August and college football is here!  Over the weekend, college football programs opened camped and the USA TODAY Coaches’ Poll released its 2010 Preseason Top 25.  Here are the teams that the 59 head coaches on the USA TODAY Board of Coaches voted to be on the [...]

Timbuctoo

There is a fascinating article in the Washington Post detailing an excavation in Timbuctoo, New Jersey. The excavation has found artifacts from over 200 years ago and open a view into the lives of freed blacks in the 1800s.   The project is being spearheaded by community leaders in New Jersey and archeology students at Temple [...]

Nonprofits Serving with Pride

By Darlene R. Taylor Attending the 100th anniversary conference of the National Urban League was a reminder of the important role nonprofit organizations play in society. From job training to education, the centennial demonstrated the long-term impact of successful partnerships between nonprofits and the communities they serve – and that’s a big plus for sponsors [...]

Heels & Helmets Deserves its OWN Show

Many of you are familiar with our popular Heels & Helmets series written by Shavannia Williams.  She helped us understand the game of football and the analogies that go along with it. Well now, she is trying to turn Heels & Helmets into its own show.  And she needs our help to do it! Heels [...]

Why Does Bill Maher Get A Pass?

I don’t care if you’re well-meaning, think you’re cool or hip, or are a flaming liberal.  This is unacceptable and the silence in the response to Bill Maher’s rhetoric is deafening!  I guess everyone would have been cool if Bill Maher said what Glenn Beck did about President Obama’s daughter too.  Someone explain to me why [...]

June Happiness Project – Order (Mom, Are You Listening?)

This month’s focus is on ORDER.  I am a natural creature of habit and order is important to me.  So I can easily identify on how order in one’s life contributes to a sense of well-being and cultivates happiness. When I think order, I immediately think of clutter.  My mother has a habit of holding [...]

Origin of blackgirlgrown Name

The name, blackgirlgrown, comes from numerous conversations with girlfriends who insisted we accept that we are “grown” women and the challenges that come with it. Regardless of the situation, whether it is dealing with aging parents, trying to negotiate salary requirements, or battling breast cancer, it was time to put our “big girl” pants. Thus, [...]

Why Do You Blog?

I get lots of questions like this from friends and strangers. They say, “you have a full time career, why are you blogging?” My responses vary depending on the audience. In my most honest and pure moments I admit that it’s cheaper than therapy. Life isn’t easy.  And it doesn’t come with an instruction manual.  My [...]

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