The Magazine Archive

• 0February 24, 2010

  Real Talk on Lessons in the Positive

  Back in my school days, I was amazed to find out that when you multiply two negative numbers, you always...

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• 0February 15, 2010

  Beauty Q&A With Celebrity Makeup Artist Roxanna Floyd

  Q: How can I be sure I’m buying the correct shade of drugstore foundation without trying it on? A: Start...

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• 2February 13, 2010

  Taking It To the Bridge: A Chat With Patrice Gaines

  “I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing” When I first heard that song it made me feel so...

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• 5February 8, 2010

  Brown Bag of Poems: Imbalanced Meal

  …like a velvet drape, over Ellington’s late piano. Unevenly, I shuffle across checkerboard

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• 0January 25, 2010

  Real Talk on Winterizing Skin…Bye-Bye Ash!

  We are now into January and you know what that means.  Cold weather, the flu and for many people, dry...

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• 0December 4, 2009

  An Afternoon With Anika Noni Rose

  Though she loves the outdoors, you won’t find Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Princess Tiana in Disney’s “Princess and...

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• 7October 18, 2009

  Poetry

  It wasn’t my season to city there…

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• 2October 17, 2009

  Violent Vibe

  When charges against Chris Brown for attacking Rihanna first became public knowledge, I knew there would be men defending Brown....

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• 0October 17, 2009

  Hot Tamala

  Tamala Jones believes some of the bumps she encountered along the way were of her own making, as in what...

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• 0October 5, 2009

  Run for Your Eyes

  Training for a half-marathon may provide more than fitness benefits. Research from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National...

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