Erykah Badu was onto something when she warned baggage-laden women everywhere to "let it go." But sometimes, pretty -- and functional -- luggage makes you more willing to deal with the stuff that's lurking inside.

A relationship -- whether it's professional or romantic -- should end as gracefully and carefully as it began. In the age of Facebook, that's not always the case.

Some black women thought Tyler Perry came close to saying he was gay on The Oprah Winfrey Show last week, but others heard something very different. Why the disconnect?

We've conditioned ourselves into thinking that anything worth having is worth fighting for. Wrong.