Karen Grigsby Bates

is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for NPR News and co-author, with Karen Elyse Hudson, of The New Basic Black: Home Training For Modern Times (Doubleday).

About Come Correct

Manners and mores in modern life? It's about way more than where the fork goes.

All AUGUST POSTS (8)

Dressing For Sober Occasions

It's pretty ironic when LaToya Jackson ends up looking more conservative at a funeral than the First Lady did on Saturday.

Celebriquette, The Presidential Edition

If you bump into the president on the Vineyard...

Who You Callin' Ghetto?!

Maybe ghetto is in the eye of the beholder. In which case, I’d like to submit for your consideration, one of the most popular African-American blogs of 2009: She So Ghetto.

An Expensive Evening Out

When  a big night out turns into a big headache.

Vacation Misers

What happens when a seriously sick employee insists on coming to work?

Don't Ask, and For Sure Don't Tell

What To Say When Rude Questions Leave You Speechless...

A Little Too Personal

When someone is interested in making your business their business

Style, Grace and Free Enterprise: Remembering Naomi Sims

Giving props to the trailblazer that allowed Tyra, Iman and others to walk the walk