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Continue reading →: Who Is Robin’s Publicist?
Growing up, I was a Hall of Justice girl. Wonder Woman was the ultimate with her invisible jet, fashionable cuff bracelets and cute crime-fighting outfit. Wonder Twins came in a distant second. I am two generations post comic books so I don’t recall when I was first introduced to Batman…
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Continue reading →: Happy Mothers’ Day
So after I ate my annual Mothers’ Day breakfast-in-bed courtesy of my daughter, I lazily watched my favorite: home renovation tv. Just in time for Mothers’ Day, I stumbled upon Two Chicks and a Hammer. It is a new home rehab show featuring a mom and daughter duo in Indy.…
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Continue reading →: She Rocks Rough & Tough With Her Afro Puffs
Seven-year-old Natalie McGriff is the creator of The Adventures of Moxie Girl, a comic book about a young, female superhero. McGriff won $16,000 for her creation at a crowdfunding festival in Jacksonville, Fla. The protagonist is a girl who uses a magical shampoo that turns her curls into super-powered Afro puffs. Her mother…
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Continue reading →: Inner City Blues
Heard it this morning…Marvin was a prophet. I could’ve posted Mercy, Mercy Me for Earth Day, but this one is resonating more for me these days. Rockets, moon shots Spend it on the have nots Money, we make it Fore we see it you take it Oh, make you wanna…
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Continue reading →: The Cost of Eating Healthy
I have had this argument with folks time and again. If you don’t make a decent wage- let alone are on public assistance to feed your family- it is extremely difficult to eat healthily. There are some states and municipalities that have made strides in this area by now accepting SNAP…
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Continue reading →: Real Talk: The News Report We Would Have Read
Very clever. Huffington Post article that is written as if there were no video evidence of the South Carolina man, Walter Scott, being killed by an officer. How many times have we read this type of article? Thank you to the authors, Ryan Grim and Nick Wing.
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Continue reading →: Sophia Says, Show Me the Money!
Well, not really. But nine-year-old Sophia raised some good points and just in time for Equal Pay Day, the day of the year that it takes a woman’s salary to catch up to her male cohort’s (since we still make 0.79 cents to a man’s dollar). Isn’t it time for…
- A Panel Series From Writing While Black Podcast
- And we have normalized it
- Fuck the cookout
- What does that mean?
I’m Ayoka
Welcome to Mule Of The World. Musings and rants from this Black woman. Zora Neale Hurston called the Black woman “the mule of the world.”
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