FOUND: Actress-Model Mia Amber Davis Died From a Blood Clot in Her Lungs
• July 13, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Acting, African American History, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Fashion, Film, Health, Love, Sexuality, The Heart, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Actress, African American Women, Big Beautiful Women, Black Women, Blacks, Blood Clot, Clots, E!Online, Knee Surgery, Los Angeles County California, Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, Love, Lung, Lungs, Mia Amber Davis, Michael Yard, Plus Size Model, Plus Size Women, Post-Surgery, Road Trip, Surgery, Thrombo-embolism, Thrombus, TMZ.com
Satoshi Kanazawa May Lose His Job Over His “Psychology Today” Article That ‘Black Women Are Less Attractive’ Than Other Women (And He Should)
• May 26, 2011 • 3 CommentsPosted in Aborigines/Blacks, African American History, Africans, American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Education, European History, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "High Noon", "Shanghai Noon", "The Social Perception of Skin Color in Japan", African American Women, African Americans, Akiba Solomon, Apology, Ayn Rand, Black Women, Chon Wang, Color, Estrogen Levels, Ethnocentrism, Evolutionary Psychology, Gary Cooper, Hiroshi Wagatsuma, Honorary White, Japan, Japanese, London School of Economics, Love, LSE, LSE Students' Union, Mikhail Lyubansky, Psychology Today, Race, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Racism, Satoshi Kanazawa, Science Fiction, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Single Black Women, Sister Resistor, St. Ives, Stanford University, Testosterone Levels, The Great Pacific War, Unilever, United States, Whiteness, William Shockley, Xenophobia
Tea Time with Wendy Williams and Aretha Franklin
• March 3, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American History, Aretha Franklin, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Fashion, Food, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Television, The Heart, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Wendy Williams, Women
Tags: "Dancing with the Stars", African American Cooking, African American Cuisine, African American Women, African Americans, Age, Alec Mapa, Aretha Franklin, Birmingham MI, Channel 3-2, DWTS, Fantasia Barrino, Gastric Bypass Surgery, Grammy Award, Late Night Eating, Loni Love, Madison WI, Miss Re, Natural Food, Pork, Queen of All Media, Rapid Weight Loss, Salt, The Pig, The Queen of All Media, The Queen of Soul, The Townsend Hotel, TV-W, Weight Loss, Wendy Williams, Wendy Williams Show, Wild Animal Print Clothes
Sweet Honey in the Rock, “Ella’s Song”
• May 16, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Love, Music, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Women
Tags: "Ella's Song", African American Women, African Americans, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Women, Civil Rights, Ella Baker, Fundi, Sweet Honey in the Rock
See Dorothy Height’s Funeral on C-Span 3 and at The Grio (w/Update)
• April 29, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Class, Democrats, Dorothy Height, Education, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African American Women, African Americans, Baptist, Blacks, Dorothy Height, Dorothy Irene Height, Eminence Grise, Eulogy, Funerals, National Council of Negro Women, President Barack Obama, Single Black Women, The Black Church, The Black Club Movement
Funeral Arrangements for Dorothy Height Announced by the National Council of Negro Women (w/Update)
• April 25, 2010 • 3 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Dorothy Height, Education, Health, Love, Race, The Economy, Women
Tags: African American History, African American Women, African Americans, Black Single Women, Black Soror, Black Sororities, Black Sorority, Black Women, Blacks, Community Service, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Dorothy Height, Dorothy I. Height Building, Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Howard University, NCNW, Self-Affirmation, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Service, Service to the Race, The Black Club Movement, The National Council of Negro Women, Washington National Cathedral
Actress Pam Grier Has a New Memoir, and Is On the Book Tour Trail
• April 23, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Acting, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Fashion, Film, Italy, Love, Memoir, Native Americans/First Nations, Pam Grier, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, People of Color, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Philippines, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Foxy Brown", "Foxy: My Life in Three Acts", "Jackie Brown", "L.A. Times Festival of Books", "The Arena", African American Women, African Americans, Blaxsploitation Films, Denver CO, Frederico Fellini, Italy, John Lennon, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Lew Alcindor, Living Legends, Los Angeles CA, Native American Ancestry, Pam Grier, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Pryor, Roger Corman, Sexy, Single Black Women, The Eighties, The Seventies, Womanly
UPDATE: Mo’Nique and Her Brother Gerald–It May Have Been About the Money
• April 22, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Awards, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Film, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Mo'Nique, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The View, Women
Tags: African American Women, African Americans, Barbara Walters, Black Women, Blacks, Brother, Family, Gerald Imes, Incest, Incest Among Siblings, Middle-Class, Mo'Nique, Money, Monique Imes, Parents, Shakedown, Sidney Hicks, Support, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Oscars, The Smell Factor, The View, Women
Where Shaniya Was Found Is Now An Impromptu Memorial Site
• March 26, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Black People, Class, Crime, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Rape/Sex Crimes
Tags: African American, African American Women, Biracial, Child Abuse, Children, Crosses, Daughter, Goddaughter, Grandchild, Lee County, Memorial Site, Rape, Self-Worth, Shaniya Davis, Sister, Stuffed Animals, Walker Road
“Vogue Italia” Now Has Three Spinoff Websites: “Vogue Curvy,” “Vogue Black,” and “Vogue Talents”
• March 3, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Fashion, Italy, Race, Women
Tags: "Afrobella, "American Vogue", "Folio", "Italian Vogue", "Vogue Curvy", "Vogue Italia", "Vogue Talents", "Young Fat and Fabulous", African American Women, African Americans, Blacks, Chandra Johnson-Greene, Fashion, Fashion Magazines, Fashion Websites, Full-Figured Women, Grace Jones, Naomi Campbell, New Talents, Self Image, Toccara Jones
Those New Breast Cancer Guidelines: Keep Doing What YOU Are Doing Right
• November 18, 2009 • Comments OffPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Cancer, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Education, Health, Health Care/The Public Option, Memoir, Native Americans/First Nations, People of Color, Race, Race and the Health Care Debate, Women
Tags: "Dr. Oz", "The Doctors", Advocate, African American Women, Bedside Manner, Black Women, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Guidelines 2009, Canada, Cancer, Capitol Square, Family History, Healing, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Reform, Hippocratic Oath, Hormone Replacement Therapy, HRT, Mammogram, Mammograms, Mammography, Medical Rationing, Memoir, Niacin, Policosanol, Pumpkin Oil, Radiation Exposure, Self-Examination, The Nineties, The Seventies, Tumors, Vitamin D, Wisconsin
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