Shay My skin is black, my arms are long, my hair is woolly– Four Women by Nina Simone Growing up as a cocoa brown child with nappy hair in the 1970’s and 80’s, I never felt very cute or pretty. Oh, it’s not that anyone told me I wasn’t, my Pops used to call me …
One of the most powerful tools that anyone of us has is our words; one need not be a writer to exercise that power. Ask anyone who has ever been in an emotionally or mentally abusive relationship and often times they will tell you that it was their partner’s words that hurt the most. Words …
Vice president Joe Biden is that uncle that stays saying dumb shit, but while it may come out all wrong, the truth is crazy Uncle Joe might be telling some truth. Joe Biden’s latest gaffe involved telling a group that included a fair number of African American’s that Romney’s banking policies would “put y’all back …