reminder happy hour in dc tonight at the chicha lounge. fun starts around 530. womens enews talks about the global gender gap the economic political and educational gender gaps have shrunk globally with equality between women and men improving in more than twothirds of 130 countries analyzed in the annual global gender gap index. the nov. 12 index was released by the world ec......
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studs terkels red socks originally uploaded by raypride rip studs terkel a true american hero. sarahs got nice links ed too . manuel munoz won a whiting award last week that officially makes hima hotshot young writer. but we knew him when . but check out his video on the writing vote. im not the only one heading to africa. dave eggers is r......
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the king of rock steady or godf atherquot as he was sometimes known alton ellis passed away earlier this month at the age of 70. a romantic at heart with one of my favorite voices he leaves 20 children two weeks after finally receiving royalties for the sean paul song still in love with you. in tribute to a life well lived interview with a......
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katherine heigls smoky eyes in style an interview with heidi klum beauty snob brilliant bargain beauty buys hair edition afrobella fun halloween makeup looks aclumps of mascara ten parabenfree and awesome lip balms for fall aproduct fiend blackheads be gone ashake your beauty paul and joe for disney cute amakeup and beauty blog source......
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alton ellis the jamaican musician who was a major pioneer of rocksteady amusic in the 1960sa died alast friday 10 october after a years battle with cancer. as theajamaica gleanera says a though ellis never had a big international hit unlike near contemporaries like bob marley and jimmy cliff the godfather of rocksteady was a major influence on the following g......
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alton ellis foto di eric oliviera su flickr usata per gentile concessione dellautore alton ellis in il musicista giamaicano gia pioniere della musica rocksteady it negli anni 60 a scomparso in lo scorso venerda 10 ottobre dopo aver lottato per un anno contro il cancro. come riportato dal il blog jamaica gleaner anche se ellis non aveva mai avuto un suc......
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alton ellis photo by eric oliviera used with permission. visit erics flickr photostream . alton ellis the jamaican musician who was a major pioneer of rocksteady music in the 1960s died last friday 10 october after a years battle with cancer. as the jamaica gleaner says though ellis never had a big international hit unlike near contemporaries li......
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as much as fashiona enjoys commiserating about fashion herself and her friends lives she is also very curious about other people lives.a blogging is virtual diary for many people and each entry is a snap shot about what they are thinking. just like looking at your account balance online you can immediately see and stress over what you owe vs you dont haveyet. fashiona......
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id love to say home from blogworlde xpo but i really didnt spend much time at the expo. long enough to make a quick pass through the trade show and hunt down my favorite girl bloggers to pass around my still secret wares and accompanying tshirts was about it. and i missed some of my favorite girl bloggers when i had my wares in tow which was sad cause they wa......
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fashionfocused glam media claims its latest venture is the largest vertical ad net aimed at africanamericans glam black life . comprised of 50 sitesglam medias overall network is made up of 640 publishersglam black life says its collective sites give it four million monthly uniques at launch. some of the blogs participating in the glam network include theybf.com shake your be......
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glam media the femaleoriented advertising and blog resource firm that has stirred both conversation and controversy in silicon valley and madison avenue plans to announce on thursday a cha nnel8221 for blogs geared toward african american audiences. called glam black life the new content area joins existing channels like fashion beauty entertainment family and the most recent......
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louragan gustav sapprochant de la ville de kingston photo publiae avec laimable autorisation de wayne sutherland. visitez la galerie de photos de wayne. voir aussi les plus racentes mises a jour sur global voices en anglais cest reparti pour la saison des ouragans en anglais. en lespace de seulement trois mois lannae 2008 a vu dafiler une sarie de tempate......
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furacao gustav se aproximando de kingston foto cortesia de wayne sutherland usada sob permissao. visite photostream de wayne. chegou aquele momento do ano novamente a temporada dos furacaes e enquanto o ano de 2008 produziu uma grande diversidade de tempestades en em tras curtos meses o furacao gustav se destacou. ao menos ata agora. a tempestade que inicial......
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hurricane gustav approaching kingston photo courtesy wayne sutherland used with permission. visit waynes photostream . its that time again hurricane season and while 2008 has produced a motley crew of storms in three short months gustav is the one that stands out. at least so far. the storm which was initially formed to the southeast of portauprince was categori......
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hey family. apologies are in order. the blog was down over the weekend due to upgrades with my web hosting company. i got an email from angie then common sense and then from leti thanks letting me know that faith in action was pointing people to my old site young clergy for social change. when the problem wasnt resolved quickly i began to have conspiracy thoughts like ......
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photo by the lat i bought rabbit ears for my cableless television just so i could watch michelles speech last night but i fell asleep at 930. before i watched it this morning on teh youtubes i checked out what the blogging masses had to say. baseball metaphors andrew sullivan thought it was a home run while ezra klein says she knocked it out of the pa......
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dallas south continues to climb up the black blog rankings this month checking in at 55. thats up from 66 in julys black blog list. this month electronic village tracked 1329 blogs . we found out at blogging while brown that many bloggers await villagers list on the first of the month insert government check joke here. thanks to everyone who links to dallas sou......
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as i wrote over at afrobellas blog michelle and obama need to protect their children from the limelight but it was good to see the young girls. they are so confident and self assured. overall a near perfect picture of a lovely black family. speaking of families and the wider black community i am hoping that cnn streams online their upcoming black in america documentaries also m......
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a yardflex ahas pics from beenie mans biography releaseawhich will be available on amazon august 16th a amazon a a there are wife beaters and there are bwoy beatazz fashion over style a a afrobellas throwback morgan heritage afrobella a nyam food blog is probably the only food blog i read consistently i love food and get inspiring ideas of what id ......
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afrobella comments on the highly publicised allblack issue of italian vogue and wonders whether its a one timeonly bone to placate the increasingly loud chorus of complaints from women of colour.......
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this month dallas south has again moved up in the black blog rankings coming in at 79.a this months rankings compiled by electronic village tracked 1237 sites. aa last month dallas south ranked 86 of 1173. june black blog rankings below are the top 10 black blogs ranked by villager as well as honorable mentions. currently villager uses technorati authority to compile the lis......
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afrobella added an interesting post today on makeup inspiration chrisette michele heres a small reading celebrity chrisettes deep fuschia lip is the business. what a gorgeous color.his photos are really edgy and interesting and i was absolutely captivated by this photo of former afrobella of the week chrisette michele meeting herself as celebrity a nd admirer.on the ......
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weve spent our weekend sifting through reams of nonsense as a result of yet another spam attack knickers has been through quite an ordeal in the last wee while with hacking and spam attacks that have had danae working around the clock. luckily with her encyclopedic knowledge of all things websitey sorry for that word danae and a fastthinking mind she has now f......
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...better ask mama tina to sprinkle some of her secret tonic on her scalp because her edges are looking down right painful nowadays. chicky poo better leave those kitchen ass sewins alone and log on to afrobella.com for help. its bad enough that aunt vivs edges had to fill out an absentee ballot for the last election but this is some next level stuff. more 823041 ......
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