Pop culture, politics, travel, entrepreneurship, motherhood and following your goals? Yup, I've got A LOT to say.
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5 Books That Let You Travel from the Comfort of Your Couch
Let’s face it. Traveling can be expensive. No matter how many deals, travel hacks, and coupons you rack up, sometimes you just can’t afford to take the trip that you want. I should know. I’d love to hop on a plane and head to a number of far-flung destinations, but at...
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3 Easy Tips That Will Help Knock Out Your To-Do List. #1 Is Vital!
I don’t know about you, but I get asked, “So…how do you do it all?” quite a bit. Because I love y’all I finally decided to peel back the curtain and explain how I get so much done. Ready? Here’s the answer: I don’t. I know, I know….total let down. While it may seem...
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7 Travelers of Color Who Will Inspire You to Hit the Road
Buzzfeed recently released an article profiling 11 people who have ditched their ho hum lives to travel the world. And while their stories are all awesome (like Ying Tey who was inspired to hit the road after her mother died), their list looks decidedly...pale. Not...
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Help Mater Mea Show a Different Side of Black Motherhood
The narrative around Black motherhood is often a negative one. The media, politicians, and our own community often blames us for everything from poverty and incarceration rates to crime and failing schools. But while women across the diaspora are raising the next...
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How Interviewing Oprah Made Me Feel Like a Fraud (or How Everything That Glitters on Social Media is Not Gold)
There is a thin like between tooting your own horn and being the Kanye West of bragging so hard people want to punch you in the face. In my “real” life (i.e. not here on the interwebs), I stay on the humble side of the line, regularly forgetting (or refusing?) to...
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Turned off by R. Kelly? Support These Organizations Working to End Sexual Violence Instead
The Village Voice’s recent article exposing all of the heartbreaking and gory details of the multitude of rape allegations against R. Kelly has once again reignited the conversation around whether or not people should support the singer. While R. Kelly has seemed to...
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Are You Up For the #BlackFridayChallenge?
Let's face it, deadlines work. As a dyed-in-the-wool procrastinator, one of the only things that helps me get things done is a looming deadline. It's how I'm able to be an effective freelancer (I don't want my editors to think I'm a flake), it's how I finally started...
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Why I Admire Sex Workers
Let me preface this by saying that I'm referring to sex workers who CHOOSE that line of work. I'm not talking about underage girls, people forced into the sex trade, or any other nefarious thing. Cool? Cool. I admire sex workers for the same reason I admire Diddy and...
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Don’t Try To Avoid It, You Need A Deadline
I have been a procrastinator my ENTIRE life. Like, the whole entire thing. I've waited until 3am to START papers, woken up at 4am to transcribe and write articles due at 9am, waited until a week before a trip to purchase plane tickets--if there's something to...
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Museum Trippin’: Inside the Craft & Folk Art Museum
A few weeks ago Le Kid and I headed to a homeschooling meet up at the Craft & Folk Art Museum. Although I'd seen it plenty of times on our way to LACMA or the Tar Pits, I never really felt the need to go. But because I've been looking to meet more homeschoolers...
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The Side of Africa You NEVER See
I belong to a slew of Facebook groups, a few of which are travel related. One group, Rare Customs, is planning a trip to Kenya early next year, and like a woman struck by a sudden and permanent case of wanderlust, I WANT TO GO. Like...badly. *long heavy sigh* Truth...
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Yet Another Reason to Go to France, Pop Up Library Opens on the Beach!
How dope is this? A pop up library....on the beach?! Yes please! In an effort to encourage literacy, French architect Matali Crasset created a library right on the sand at La Romaniquette in Istres, France. The portable library is home to 350 books and three shaded...
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