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One Year Later: Lessons from Lemonade

One Year Later: Lessons from Lemonade

Yesterday marked one year since Queen Bey came through and slayed our lives with the forever iconic short film/album Lemonade. Our edges were snatched for weeks as we debated what the album was really about (Did Jay cheat or nah?) while immersing ourselves in the stunning visuals, celebrating a new era in the depictions of […]

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Tips For Updating Your Self-Care Routine This Spring

Tips For Updating Your Self-Care Routine This Spring

Springtime is the perfect time to restart any area of your life. Sure, you can give your career or even your home a dose of “spring cleaning”, but that’s on a mundane level. We can’t forget to do things on a daily basis that make us feel good inside and out. If you have never […]

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3 Black Feminists You Should Know

3 Black Feminists You Should Know

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.” ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists Feminism has become somewhat of a buzz word as of late. With our current political climate, […]

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5 Ways To Be More Adventurous On a Budget

5 Ways To Be More Adventurous On a Budget

Wow! March is already here! Next up, spring will come. Maybe some of you ladies have already started working on your 2017 resolutions but March is the perfect time to start since Spring, “the season of new beginnings”, is just weeks away. It’s fitting to get start laying the groundwork for your goals. Now on […]

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Relationship Issues: Are You Spilling the “Lemonade” or Keeping it to Yourself?

Relationship Issues: Are You Spilling the “Lemonade” or Keeping it to Yourself?

With all the chatter surrounding Beyonce these days, her pregnancy with twins, her album of the year loss, and the incredible 2017 Grammy performance, I started to think back to that day in April when Lemonade dropped. After picking my jaw up off the floor, I realized that Beyonce let the world into the skeleton […]

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5 Ways To Help You Get Out Of Your Own Way

5 Ways To Help You Get Out Of Your Own Way

I’m pretty sure most of us want to be successful in life. However, success doesn’t come easy because nothing in life ever does. When obstacles arrive, many of us will complain about how difficult our situation is. By then, we have wasted ample amount of time moaning about what went wrong instead of changing our […]

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6 Little Ways You Can Add More Reading Time Into Your Busy Life

6 Little Ways You Can Add More Reading Time Into Your Busy Life

For bookworms out there, you know it is hard to find time to read when you’re an adult. With work, taking care of the family (pets included!), and the urge to always be on social media can make it hard for us to find time to sit down and read a book. There are so […]

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Dating Dilemma: Are We Drowning in too Many Choices?

Dating Dilemma: Are We Drowning in too Many Choices?

Something about technology makes everything simpler and yet more complicated. Dating used to be so easy. You meet someone who is attractive to you. You strike up a conversation. You exchange numbers. He calls you the next day. You go on a date. Then another. And another. The rest is history. Nowadays you’ve got all […]

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Black Empowerment through Music: 4 Must Listen Albums

Black Empowerment through Music: 4 Must Listen Albums

For black people, music is deeply rooted within our culture and has always served a greater purpose for us. Be it a form of expression, a form of protest, a coping mechanism, a form of therapy, or a glimmer of hope during the darkest days…music is part of our story. “What a heck of a […]

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