Tyler Perry is Not “For Colored Girls”

Thembi Ford, over at The Root, laments the recent announcement that Tyler Perry will be making a full screen version of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. According to Ford: Not only will he produce and direct the upcoming film version, the King of Coonery [...]

Black on Black Neglect: Hook A Brotha Up

AverageBro.com has a guest post by Janks Morton, an independent black filmmaker, on how the “hook a brotha up” mentality is ruining independent black film. Janks, producer/director of Boys To Men and What Black Men Think, begrudgingly makes a plea for African Americans to support independent black film with the $$$ and stop getting bootleg [...]

The Black Caucus Vs. Radio One 101

If you live in a large urban metropolitan area you’ve no doubt heard Radio One’s Cathy Hughes blasting members of the Congressional Black Caucus. This is no honest disagreement among friends. Cathy Hughes has made it an all out war leaving collateral damage in her wake. So what’s the beef about? You guessed it: money. [...]

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 [...]

Money Matters: What to Read

Personal Finance blog, Get Rich Slowly, outlines 25 essential books to get your financial house in order organized neatly into categories such as debt reduction, everyday personal finance, investing, financial independence, and the “psychology of money.”  I shared a list of my favorite money books once before, but that was over two years ago. I’ve [...]

Culture Club – April

Culture Club is a periodic posting of cultural events which may be of interest to readers. Events are limited to the Washington, DC area.

Of Museums and Princesses

Culture Shorts: Designer Chosen for African American History Museum. Disney Introduces First Black Princess.

Seat Manners

When Karen Grigsby Bates, author of The New Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times, announced her “Come Correct” blog on The Root several weeks ago, I couldn’t wait to start reading the series dedicated to civilized citizenry in the 21st century.  In brief, the blog highlights and educates on general etiquette rules, manners, and [...]

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 [...]

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