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Why Ads for Blacks Backfire
A roll of the eyes. A shake of the head. A sigh of disgust. Whatever your reaction may have been to Summer’s Eve’s latest viral advertisements, you certainly had one. As part of the personal-hygiene brand’s Hail to the V campaign, it released a series of three ads last month featuring talking hands meant to…
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Reality TV: Where's the Black Love?
Last week marked the end of Season 2 of VH1’s catty Basketball Wives, and just when we thought the foolishness was over, the network debuted Love and Hip Hop, a “docu-soap” series on women who are connected to hip-hop, through either their men or their careers. The presence of the words “love” and “wives” in…
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Steve Harvey's Relationship Drama
Love Guru. King of Relationships. Relationship Expert. Best-Selling Love Expert. And, according to Essence magazine, “the man women trust to tell them the truth about, well, everything.” All of these words have been used to describe Steve Harvey, whose relationship-expert status has been affirmed by the women who made his books, Act Like a Lady,…
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Black Twitter: Trending Topics Paint the Wrong Picture
Here’s an interesting fact about Twitter: Black people love it. According to a study by Edison Research, we make up 25 percent of the 17 million (and counting) people who use the social networking site. And here’s something else about black people and Twitter: We love to start trends — trending topics, that is. Twitter…
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Losing My Father to AIDS
I’ve been living with HIV for the last 16 years. Though my status is negative, I’ve spent days in the hospital for it, it’s affected my sex life, and it has caused endless anxiety and heartache. I was 9 years old when Magic Johnson announced he was HIV positive. My best friend asked me if…
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