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Lucrative Side Hustles: Aurthor Gil Robertson Shares Tricks of Writing Trade
We have good news for you. You can have a cool career and make a good living. No need to choose between loving your job and paying your mortgage. The following profile, part of the BlackEnterprise.com Cool Jobs series, offers a peek into the nuts and bolts, perks and salaries behind enjoyable careers. Unless you…
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Actor Shemar Moore Launches Kickstar Campain For New Film project
“Criminal Minds” actor Shemar Moore is using Kickstarter to enlist financial support for his new film project, “The Bounce Back”. The goal is to raise $1.5 million of the film’s $3 million budget through the site, with the film’s producer/star committing to personally match the total amount raised on the popular fundraising platform. “The Bounce Back” is a heartfelt romantic comedy…
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Help! My Girlfriend Asked Me For a Loan To Start a Business
How do you handle a situation where the one you love asks for a loan to fund a business? Great question, but the answer may not be so simple. In a situation like this, it’s important for you to clearly differentiate your emotional feelings from the business concept and loan request. Unfortunately, this isn’t necessarily…
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Mom and Daughter Make Hair-Story in NYC
These days it’s hard to know which hair care product to choose, given how oversaturated the market has become. And now, with the natural hair movement in full swing, the competition is becoming increasingly fierce. Enter Doris Hair Care New York, a small but steadily growing mom-and-pop-style business that began as humbly as now nationally…
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Family Business: Lil Wayne & the Carter Tribe
Words by Amber McKynzie Lil Wayne first entered the music scene at 11 years old as just another kid in New Orleans who wanted to rap; now, nearly 20 years later, he’s one of the biggest names in hip-hop. He’s lived the “dream.” But while the money, women, cars, chains and any other stereotypical cultural…
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Video Captures Police Brutally Beating Woman
In Jasper, Texas, a town with a history of racial unrest, two white police officers have been fired after they were captured on video slamming a black woman’s head into a countertop and wrestling her to the ground at the police headquarters, <a href=Yahoo reports. Keyarika “Shea” Diggles, 25, was brought to the jail on…
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First Lady Was Right to Heckle a Heckler
(The Root) — If you’re a politician, accepting that you are going to be heckled by critics and learning how to handle being heckled are part of the job. But for those married to politicians, the rules of engagement have always been less clear. That may now change thanks to Michelle Obama. It was recently…
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New Role: Vindication for Susan Rice?
(The Root) — Susan Rice, whose rumored nomination to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state was torpedoed because of the controversy surrounding the September 2012 deaths of American foreign-service members in Benghazi, Libya, will become America’s next national security adviser. Rice will become the second woman, second black woman and, coincidentally, the second woman…
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Susan Rice to Be New National Security Adviser
Susan Rice rises again. The United Nations ambassador has been tapped to replace Tom Donilon, who is resigning, as President Obama’s national security adviser, according to the Washington Post. In December of 2012, she withdrew her name from consideration for secretary of state after Obama’s opponents accused her of misleading the public in the aftermath…
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Why Heckling Michelle Obama Doesn't Pay
(The Root) — Michelle Obama took a moment deliver a verbal chin check to a heckler during a private fundraiser on Tuesday. Ellen Sturtz got more than she bargained for when she interrupted the first lady, demanding that President Obama sign an anti-discrimination executive order similar to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA. According to…

