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  • Five Do's and Don'ts for Beginning Investors

    So many choices, so much to understand. For the beginning investor, determining how to get started and what to do may seem overwhelming. But relax, take a deep breath, and start at the beginning. Here are five ideas that should help: 1.     Identify your goals: Create a list of what you want to accomplish, such…

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  • Why I Agree With Taye Diggs: When We Call Biracial Kids ‘Black,’ We Disrespect Their ‘White’ Side

    Taye Diggs is talking about something that has always boggled my mind: why we call biracial people (namely, Americans who have both black and white parents) black.  I’ve always wondered why we black Americans accepted that one-drop rule created by segregationist white Americans during chattel slavery: the rule that said that people who are born…

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  • Mo’nique Defends People Who Understand if Their Spouse Wants to Explore Sex With Others

    Mo’nique has touched on this idea before: that she’s not against her husband and manager, Sidney Hicks, having extramarital sex with other women.  She caught a lot of backlash about that comment and went on a talk show some time after to say that she’d given it some thought and decided that she wouldn’t be…

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  • Is It OK to Travel Without My Husband?

    Have you ever written about doing separate vacations when you’re married? I think it would be an interesting topic. —Anonymous Occasionally readers write in, asking me to tackle subjects that may not apply to their current lives, but they’re curious to hear my thoughts about anyway. This question is not as random as it sounds.…

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  • Steve Harvey Is Being Sued for $205,000 by a Private-Jet Company

    If you ask the Nashville, Tenn., private-jet company Business Aircraft Leasing, it had a gentleman’s agreement with Steve Harvey that the talk show host would lease one of the company’s private jet planes for $97,000 a month.  According to a lawsuit filed against Harvey, Harvey requested that some custom alterations be made to the plane,…

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  • Being Mary Jane Recap: Selling Out

    Black-girl realness and Latina-girl truth telling were on full display. Girls’ night out at M.J.’s members-only club is rife with girl talk about the imagined size of President Obama’s you-know-what, male stalkers and prenups—or “legislating love,” as M.J. calls it. After her girls leave, M.J. dashes back in to get some lip-lock action with her…

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  • Should You Incorporate to Protect Your Money?

    Harriette Cole is the author of the book of meditations 108 Stitches: Words We Live By and a contributing editor at The Root. Follow her on Twitter. 

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  • R. Kelly Says the Rumors About How He Likes Underage Girls Are Just That: Rumors

    R. Kelly is on a press tour promoting his upcoming studio album, The Buffet, and any journalist worth his or her salt will ask him to address the No. 1 controversy that has plagued his career: the idea that he was, and perhaps still is, fond of underage women. That’s what writer David Marchese did in a piece…

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  • Nicki Minaj’s Ex-Boyfriend Is Reportedly Planning to Sue Her; Claims He’s Owed Money for Writing Her Songs

    Nicki Minaj and her ex-boyfriend Safaree Samuels went at it publicly in social media after their breakup, so we’ve heard these allegations before. I’m talking about Samuels’ allegations that he wrote some numbers on a few of Minaj’s albums. It’s a claim that could haunt and taint a lyricist’s career forever (just look at Nas,…

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  • Charlie Sheen Is HIV-Positive, Has Spent Millions in Hush Money, Expects Former Sexual Partners to Sue

    As expected, actor Charlie Sheen told Matt Lauer on Tuesday that he is HIV-positive and paid up to $10 million in hush money to keep the diagnosis a secret.  “I am, in fact, HIV-positive,” Sheen said during the Today-show interview. “It’s a hard three letters to absorb. It’s a turning point in one’s life.” Sheen…

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