Your dream job is still a job. You still must be there on time, look presentable and be ready to go. You can love the work...
So, who will you vote for? That's easy: nobody yet, because you're still a kid -- but you have your opinions. Even so, how much do...
You give, and you give, and you give. No problem. If you can be of service to your community, then that's what you'll do. You'll volunteer...
You're lucky you didn't hit your head! The damage you did to yourself was bad enough. You didn't need a head wound to lay you low,...
Some say you march to a different drummer. You follow the music you hear in your soul, blazing your own path while the rest of the...
Deep down inside, there's a part of you that always wants to do right. Did someone teach you that? Or were you just modeling what your...
Well, thank you so much to your co-worker. That's where you got this ick, this scratchy-throat, achy-body, upset-stomach, can't-sleep virus. He sneezed and that's all it...
Your toes didn't wait long before they started tapping. They knew what was coming, almost as soon as the band was seated. They knew before the...
Picture books for the littles are a great way to introduce your 3-to7-year-old to poetry because simple stories lend themselves to gentle rhymes and lessons. "See...
The catalogs should start arriving soon. If you're a gardener, that's a siren song for you. What will you put in your pots and plots this...
The One Percent has everything you do not. A fancy house in a posh place. Designer clothing, fast cars. Friends in high places that know how...
Well into his twenties, Joe Wallace was asked to sit with his "Granddaddy Joe" while Wallace's mother and grandmother ran errands. His grandfather was once a...
Once was a time when you rarely saw a Black face in entertainment unless you were specifically looking for one — which is why these great...
You’ll do better next time. You’re sorry, deeply sorry, sincere in your apology, and it won’t happen again. You had a chance to think about your...
The son of Haitian immigrants, Alex Toussaint grew up in a stable, middle-class household with both parents involved in his upbringing and with education at the...
Ten years after the launching of the ‘infamous’ The Crisis magazine, W.E.B. Du Bois, Augustus Granville Dill and Jessie Redmon Fauset had another idea: they called...
You will never settle. And why should you? If it's not right, you make it right. If it can be better, well, then get at it....
One drop. That's all they said it took to determine someone’s race. Just one drop, the tiniest of amounts, and everything changed: no access, no rights,...
The last two apps you downloaded were for diets. Ugh. Friends say that you're perfect but you'd like to lose your flabby arms, your thick thighs,...
Terri Schlichenmeyer, foundation, action, announcement, public sign, hoopties, heirlooms, industry, ideas, business, new book, "Black Founder" by Stacy Spikes, solid, high school graduation, horizon, Stacy Spikes...
It’s been more than a century since the Tulsa Race Massacre, and it still seems like there’s much to learn about it. in “Requiem for the...
In the early spring of 2011, while taking a rest from a cold bike ride, David Goodrich wandered into a museum. There, he was handed a...
Author Michelle Obama is a true storyteller, and she uses a “show, not tell” method of writing. Readers are lulled into an entertaining story of life...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The truth is, though, summer’s halfway over and you’ve done everything you wanted to do so now you’re (do you dare say it?) bored....
Your first place all your own needs to be ah-mazing. Big-screen TV for gaming. Fridge for snacks and drinks. Sofa for kicking back, a few good...