Antisocial
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Tidal X Was an Epic 6-Hour Musical Marathon I Wasn’t Fit Enough to Run
I’m out of shape. It’s a reality. I just recently started working back out again because stairs were looking like obstacles I could not surmount without sounding like Lord Vader when I was through. I can’t run a marathon. I can’t even run the block. And I definitely wasn’t prepared to run the race of…
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Too Sick to Socialize, but I Went to the NY Urban League’s Black & White Champagne Brunch and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Conference in DC Anyway
Three weeks. That is how long I’ve been sick with an unknown virus (the thing doctors tell you when they don’t know what it is but know it won’t kill you). It’s not the flu. It’s not a cold. But it is one thing—a jerk. Just the biggest jerk of a disease ruining my social…
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NaturallyCurly’s ‘Texture on the Runway’ Laid My Edges
I went natural before going natural was cool, back in 2000, 17 years ago, when curly-hair products for black hair were garbage. Armed with some stuff called “CurlUp” (which was clearly made for white hair), a tub of clear hair gel, the only book on natural hair I could find in 2000 and some hot-oil treatments,…
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Harlem’s Fashion Row Celebrates 10 Years While I Contemplate Whether I’m Over- or Underdressed
First off, I didn’t realize check-in was at 7, not 8:30. It was just the beginning of a series of disasters that led to my living out one of my nightmares: showing up late for … anything. I abhor being late. I have recurring nightmares about it, and normally I’m the spy who shows up…
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