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Dear Writers: Don’t Just Tweet, Write

  Something interesting happened this week. I was poking around Twitter on Tuesday when I noticed Giuliana Rancic getting THAT WORK after saying Zendaya Coleman's faux-locs made her look like she smelled of pachouli or weed. While I thought Rancic's comments were...

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On Doing It Anyway, Even When It’s Messy

I've been feeling some type of way about writing fiction lately. Despite loving it, both as a reader and writer, the later has been giving me the blues. We're two 2+ months into the year and I haven't been writing. At all. At first I blamed it on deadlines. I got a...

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Things In The Game Done Changed

If you've been rocking with me for a while, then you probably noticed things look a little different around here. After attending a screening of  Nefertite Nguvu's film, In the Morning, at the Pan-African Film Festival on Friday night, I came home, had some wine, and...

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Yes, This Is Africa Too

Let's face it. If you rely on Western media to teach you about Africa you'll walk away thinking the entire continent is just one big clusterf*ck of HIV, Ebola, poverty, war, famine, and lions...lots and lots of lions. And while Africa has its challenges, it's also a...

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I'm Going to South Africa!

It's finally happening. Last year, I talked about wanting to go to Nairobi, Kenya, but things didn't pan out. But as the old folks say, everything happens for a reason because in two day--TWO DAYS--I'm leaving for my first trip to Johannesburg, South Africa. Like most...

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I’m Going to South Africa!

It's finally happening. Last year, I talked about wanting to go to Nairobi, Kenya, but things didn't pan out. But as the old folks say, everything happens for a reason because in two day--TWO DAYS--I'm leaving for my first trip to Johannesburg, South Africa. Like most...

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