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Continue reading →: We Grew It, Let’s Eat It!
With the rise in urban gardening and, unfortunately, childhood obesity, there couldn’t be a better time for this book! Inspired by the First Family’s garden, six-year-old twins, Annie and Veda, have caught the gardening bug! Their experiences are chronicled by their mom in their book, We Grew It, Let’s Eat It!, as…
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Continue reading →: Bad Girls, Talkin’ Bout the Sad Girls…
Prostitute. Sex slave. Child sex trafficking. Now be honest. You had a different reaction to the first one than you did the second two. Why do we have such a visceral reaction to prostitutes? Do they have nothing in common with the latter two epidemics? These faceless prostitutes are…WOMEN…GIRLS… who are…
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Continue reading →: Loving Us to Death
Last year was a rough year for young women at the hands of those who claim to love them. June: a 16 year-old girl died from her injuries after being shot in the head by an unidentified male assailant. May: Yeardley Love, a young college student, was killed by her…
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Continue reading →: Morning Rush Hour
Six am…I have no in-person meetings today so I can throw on sweats. Mornings in my house are never routine. Luckily, I don’t have a set time to begin my work day because I would have to wake at least an hour earlier, to handle the surprises. Lunch was packed…
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Continue reading →: Unsafe Sex Is Killing Women and Girls
According to the World Health Organization, unsafe sex is killing women and girls around the globe. HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death among women between the ages of 15 and 44; unsafe sex is the biggest risk factor. The death rates of women in their reproductive years occurred in…
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Continue reading →: For Colored Girls
For me, this movie is a beautiful interpretation of the classic collection of short stories and the award-winning play (I say this and I admittedly have not read orexperienced either one). It was rich in colors, themes, characters and layers. The lyrical prose from Ntozake Shange is showcased as it intertwines the…
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Continue reading →: Ode to Coffee
You are an acquired taste Which came later for me. A quiet cup with today’s news Or during a frenzied drive into work- You give me what I crave. Oh how I missed you during my maternal hiatus! Whether dolled up for the holidays Or brewed Plain and simple You…
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Continue reading →: Ode to the Single Mother
One does not aspire to be a single mother. As a young girl, I did not look into the mirror and long to follow in my mother’s footsteps. In fact, I was hopeful that I would raise my children in a household with two, loving parents. But in the absence…
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Continue reading →: Where is Black Love?
A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to a commentary by Jeff Johnson and he shared a conversation with a woman who said that she had given up on Black men and did not know what she would/should tell her two-year old daughter… As he went on to give…
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Continue reading →: Let Me See Your Papers
Arizona’s recent law got people fired up again about immigration and I am hopeful, have made some people begin to pay attention. I was moved when I first heard a clip of the seven-year-old telling FLOTUS that her mommy didn’t have any papers…now people are saying that it was staged.…
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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.”
