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How the Mint Conference Aims to Cultivate Photographers and Other Creatives
Ask any entrepreneur, advertising or marketing guru and they’ll tell you: Quality stock photography matters. So much so, in fact, that according to MDG Advertising, 67 percent of online shoppers rated high-quality images as being “very important” to their purchasing decisions, even more so than “product specific information,” “long descriptions,” or product “reviews and ratings.”…
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‘My Family Is Just as Good as Anyone Else’s’: Same-Sex Couples and Their Children Speak Out
First comes love, then comes marriage—and everyone knows what happens after that. Children are the expected outcome of matrimony. Now that gay marriages are legal, the kids of their unions are subject to even more scrutiny, on top of the years of criticism from socially conservative groups like Focus on the Family and Americans for…
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Stevie Wonder Surprises 3 Cities With Free Pop-Up Concerts
It was a covert operation worthy of the Navy SEALs. In a little more than 36 hours, Stevie Wonder and his management and publicity teams succeeded in collaborating with three U.S. city governments to plan and execute the free, one-day pop-up concert series of the summer. Hundreds of Washington, D.C., workers played hooky from their…
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Top 5 Cities in Africa for Playing or Staying
Though he never got props from the black bourgeoisie for his ambitious “Back to Africa” plan, it’s hard to deny that black nationalist and Pan-Africanist visionary Marcus Garvey was on to something. The Jamaican immigrant who launched the largest mass movement in African-American history just over a century ago—attracting thousands of people throughout the Diaspora…
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5 Places Black People Can Move to When They’ve Had Enough of America
Chris Rock summed up the black experience in the United States kind of perfectly during his HBO special Never Scared more than a decade ago: “If you’re black, you got to look at America a little bit different,” he joked, stone-faced. “You got to look at America like the uncle who paid for you to…
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HBCU Fiscal Crisis Is a Quagmire
Tomika Anderson writes at Ebony that even though the Obama administration is doing all it can for HBCUs, which are struggling to stay afloat during this fiscal crisis, things look bleak. It’s not that the Obama Administration does not get the importance of saving the collectively sinking ship — the president has stated that the…
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Honoring Ruby Dee With a Party and Film
(The Root) — A who’s who of famous black married folks and other notables gathered on a cold Wednesday night in Harlem, to fete with great warmth the life of beloved actress and activist Ruby Dee during a celebration of her 90th birthday. The couples included actors Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance, and Essence founder…
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