Category: Black is Beautiful

• Year of Yes

  

  This is not some game or new trendy thing to do. “Year of Yes” is a memoir by Shonda Rhimes (yes, that Shonda Rhimes). In Year of Yes, Shonda shares tips from her own enlightenment and how she changed her whole life. I don’t read many memoirs but I plan to read this one, every single page!   …

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  November 2015

  Black is Beautiful, Book/Magazine Reviews, Business, Career, Children, Entertainment, Family, Tech

• September 2015 – the month of the Black Woman

  

  I’m calling September 2015 the month of the black woman. Incredible things have happened. Not just in terms of what black women have accomplished – that has been happening for many years – but in terms of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by the media. This is a hot topic that has been talked about in The Huffington Post, The…

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  September 2015

  Beauty, Black is Beautiful, Book/Magazine Reviews, Career, Entertainment, Fashion, Girl Talk, Makeup, News, Politics, Social Media, Sports, TV

  abc, ameliarobinson, apple, applemusic, black, blackhistory, blackisbeautiful, chance, ciara, civilrights, color, csiriano, essence, fashion, fox, janelle, janellemonae, justice, kerry, kerrywashington, maryjblige, model, opportunity, options, perfectguy, politics, sanaalathan, shonda, shondarimes, sister, sisterhood, sistervote, taraji, tarajiphenson, theperfectguy, tv, voiladavis, vote, women, womenofcolor

• First and Finest

  

  Happy Founder’s Day to the lovely ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. January 15, 1908 – AKA1908.com   

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  January 2015

  Black is Beautiful, Family, Social Media

  #SkeeWee, AKA, AKA1907, AKA1908, sisterhood, sorority

• Glory

  

  John Legend and Common won Best Original Song at the Golden Globes for the song Glory, made for the new film SELMA. The song is AMAZING. The movie is AMAZING. It is based on events that took place in 1965 on the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge, but the message is still relevant today – 50 years later. Definitely GO SEE…

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  January 2015

  Black is Beautiful, Entertainment, Music, Thoughts

  common, humanity, iam, johnllegend, movie, oprah, selma

• Chime in for Change

  

  Chime for Change, founded by Gucci, is asking women everywhere to speak up for change all over the world. The kind of change that benefits girls and women everywhere. “Education. Health. Justice. For every girl. Every woman. Everywhere. Because none of us can move forward if half of us are held back.” Pick a cause and donate…

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  October 2014

  Black is Beautiful, Charity, Education, Family, Girl Talk, Global, Health, Money, Read, School

  change, chimein, education, girls, health, justice, women