By Gigi on
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Two African American women from Spelman College were the 2010 winners of the AT&T Big Mobile Challenge last October.It is not often that African American women see positive images of themselves in popular media. More often they are engaged in street brawls with each other, half naked in some music video or pregnant in line at the Welfare Office. If one only paid attention to these kinds of images, then it would be difficult to imagine that there are those...
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
"The Confession Episode"Well well... episode two, season 4 and we're still tumbling down the rabbit hole. I guess the writers were finding their feet, tryin' to get us to feel something but there was too much focus on Mel and Malik. Not much for the other guys. Absolutely no Jason or Kelly. :-( Oh well, here goes!Malik, spiraling down without his mom or TeeTee. Sigh. Really?! The only thing a black man out of control does watch BORING strippers and sip cocktails off...
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Sunday, 16 January 2011
Studies conducted at the UC Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento have concluded that African American Women have worse survivor rates than white and hispanic counterparts inspite of surgical procedures or radiation therapy. Steve Martinez, an assistant professor of surgery, found that African American women were less likely to receive radiation, but even with the few who did, their survival rate was actually worse than white patients whose disease had progressed to...
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Friday, 14 January 2011
In the December 2010 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism (published by Wiley Blackwell on behalf of American College of Rheumatology), cigarette smoking increases the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis.Rhuematoid (roo-ma-toyd) arthritis or RA is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the lining of joints and causes pain and swelling. Of the 1.3 million Americans diagnosed with RA 75% were women. Studies done earlier have suggested a link between cigarette...
By Gigi on
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
"Parachutes"It is impossible to express with meager words what excitement rose in me when I heard that BET picked up The Game! Like the other 7.7 million viewers I cancelled all my appointments for the night (including a long standing date with a friend) cleared the house of humans and pets, popped some corn and sat in front of the TV to find out where the story was going to go next.Now that Mel and Derwin were married would they finally settle down into the...
By Gigi on
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Tracy Reese (Photo from obviousmag.com)African American women love clothes. It cannot be denied. At a gathering of black women beautiful clothes come out of the closet and are donned to present polished and beautiful silhouettes.Michelle Obama, lauded as one of the most stylish First Wives, has become something of a fashion icon (even though the praise really should fall to her stylist if she has one. If not, well, good for her!).In exploring fashion, certain names...
By Gigi on
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Have you every typed "sexy black woman" into the Google search engine? I did! This is what I got.From this search it would seem that in order for a black woman (and all other women) to be considered sexy, she would have to be clad in next to nothing.The images that flash at us from the television screen scream a message to us; we MUST be sexy even when we are doing the most mundane activities. Products are peddled to us that claim they will increase our sex appeal...
By Gigi on
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
I have spent the last 16 years being aggravated by Puff-Daddy-Sean-Puffy-Diddy-Dirty Money's face. I have to admit, he doesn't have to do anything to get on my last nerve. I can't explain it, does he lack charisma, is he just a fake human being or is he annoying cause I just don't like his music? But wait...I do like some of his songs, well that is, I like some of the songs he did in collaboration with others. So maybe I do dislike him and it is that simple. (Taking...
By Gigi on
Saturday, 1 January 2011
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past two years you have heard of eReaders. The nifty electronic devices that were introduced in 2007, starting with the Kindle, translate eBooks into readable portable formats.The raging argument on the internet has been whether this new format of reading books will destroy the publishing industry as we understand it. It is safe to say that the publishing moguls will modify their advertising strategies, if indeed...
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