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Okay…now here’s what you have to do in order to enter the contest…leave a comment(along with your e-mail address)…letting us know if you believe black history month is still relevant today. Why or why not? Feel free to be as brief and creative as you like. Contest will run from February 28- March 7.
And…here we go! 1. I’m _____, I’m _____, I _____. fun-loving; outspoken and not one to mess with. 2. Why do I have _____ and not _____. socks; pairs. 3. How does this _____ work, anyway? Blackberry 4. Every morning, I put _____ on my _____. moisturizer; face 5. I consider myself lucky because _____. [...]
I’ve seen us lose our mind in the name of love. Shoot, I remember beating up a girl in college because I caught her wearing my robe, in my boyfriend’s apartment at six in the morning. Ask me why I would jump her and not him? Better yet, ask me what I was doing fighting some chick in the first place. (I just know if I ever become rich and famous that story is going to appear in the tabloids). At the time, I felt like I was doing it in the name of love. I loved him and she was jeopardizing that love.
I got my very first camera as a high school graduation gift. It was a Kodak disc Instamatic. Those were all the rage for about five minutes. Just enough time for me to head to college and document my antics with my friends. It was great- it fit in my pocket and went everywhere I [...]
If you enjoy multi-dimensional stories with good character development, you will enjoy A NEW KIND OF BLISS. Emily Yancy is faced with assisting (or not) her elderly mother with her daily needs, which would require returning to a hometown she hates.
It grew with a family reunion in the country near a cemetery dotted with gravestones of ancestors dated back to the early 1800s. After a funeral, with more pictures and even more stories about two indentured ancestors from the Cameroons and a runaway slave who joined the Union Army, I was hooked.
Pic of Holly Robinson-Peete and Rodney Peete’s Children
Are you still participating in the First Quarter 2009 Reading Challenge? Hope you are as we’re beyond the halfway mark and in the homestretch now. Come join us and let us know what books you’ve read and plan to read.
It ain’t easy being biracial and a trust fund baby, but blue-eyed Jesse Morgan is determined to just be herself at an eastern college—where no one will know who or what she is…unless she chooses to tell them. What Jesse doesn’t yet realize is that “no past” doesn’t equal “no problems.”
