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Well-Traveled, Intelligent Black Man, 34, Seeks ‘Sista’ OK With Him Making Less Money
When I tell my friends that the last time I had a girlfriend was during my freshman year in college in 1998, they respond with disbelief. For them it’s bemusing to fathom that a man who is well-traveled, gainfully employed, bilingual, degreed, childless, not living in his mother’s basement and debt-free could go 16 years…
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Finding Dad on Facebook
Typing his father’s name into Facebook, NewsOne contributor Terrell Jermaine Starr wasn’t sure what he’d find. But thanks to technology, Starr was reunited with a man who held the key to his past and hope for his future. When I was at the weakest point in my life, the man who I thought I would…
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Dear Forbes Writer: Google Didn't Get Me Out of Poverty
In an entry at News One, blogger and Fulbright scholar Terrell Jermaine Starr writes that what Gene Marks’ Forbes column failed to discuss is that overcoming poverty is not only about achieving academic success but also about making a cultural shift away from harmful friends and family. … I was a poor black kid once.…
