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Six months after quitting an unfulfilling job as a sales and marketing assistant at a trade publication, and spurred on by a girlfriend, Mitzi Miller rolled up on Amy DuBois Barnett—who has served as a multititled editor at such glossies as Honey, Teen People and Ebony—exiting a club on New York City’s Lower East Side…

Someone drape a prayer cloth over my legs, because I still feel faint from all the twists, turns and masterfully crafted flashbacks in the How to Get Away With Murder two-hour season finale!   First, absolutely no one cared about the case of the week involving the guilty/not-guilty priest and his lover/not lover. In fact, I’m mad that…

It’s not news that there’s often a racialized black tax associated with “black-sounding” names. You’re more likely to get called back for a job interview if you apply as Sarah Jones than you are as Tasha Jenkins. Some people try giving their kids less black-sounding names, but the reality is that latent racism can activate…

I am currently dating a minister. (He heavily pursued me.) As a result, we must remain celibate. I, however, was sexually active in previous relationships, so this is new for me. Is it wrong to use sex toys to satisfy myself and remove desires of having sex with him? —Anonymous To answer your actual question:…

After giving Lucious (the only man she’s ever been with!) a taste of what he’s been missing, Cookie tells him, “If you want Cookie’s nookie, ditch the bitch.” Cookie is so poetic, Nikki Giovanni wants her lines. Lucious vows to get rid of Boo Boo Kitty. The man is clearly Lyon. Cookie wants to immortalize her ex…

Two years ago, Ben Jealous and Trabian Shorters had an idea: Young black men needed to hear from other black men about their struggle, their triumphs, their pain and their successes.    “Our young men might imitate what they do see, but they definitely won’t imitate what they don’t see,” Jealous, 42, and the former…

As we gear up for the highly anticipated, two-hour season 1 finale of How to Get Away With Murder, let’s look back at some of the ways in which HTGAWM’s freshman season has shaken up the cultural landscape: 1. With the addition of HTGAWM to ABC’s existing Thursday-night lineup of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, Thursday nights officially became the property of Shonda Rhimes. #TGIT…

Marshawn Evans Daniels calls herself a “reinvention strategist” for good reason. She has reinvented herself a thousand times over. International baton-twirling champion. Lawyer. Runner-up in the Miss America competition. Contestant on The Apprentice. Public-speaking coach. And so on and so on.  For the past several years, through several business ventures under her ME Unlimited consulting…