One day while lis­ten­ing to Maxwell’s song, “Pretty Wings,” I began to ques­tion why in this day and age so many young sis­ters don’t rec­og­nize they are equipped with pretty wings. Why is it that …

Many of us have been there. Regret­ting the time we lost our vir­gin­ity. Regret­ting the per­son who we lost it to…the sur­round­ing circumstances…everything. But in that moment of ner­vous cop­u­la­tion, we cross over to another …

The Unsu­per­vised Play­ground
Social net­work­ing is tak­ing over the world, it seems.  Often referred to as the 24/7 Dig­i­tal World because it never sleeps, and is acces­si­ble from anywhere…at any time of the day.  In the …

T.K. Jar­rels, resides in Oak­land, CA — by way of Cincin­nati, OH.  She is bio­log­i­cal Mama to 3 (though affec­tion­ately called “Mama”, by many more), and proud Grand­Mama, of 4.  Her arti­cle con­tri­bu­tion was inspired by …

ed·u·cate  (j-kt)  –To pro­vide with knowl­edge or train­ing in a par­tic­u­lar area for a par­tic­u­lar pur­pose–
With the aver­age teenager under con­stant bom­bard­ment of pro-education slo­gans like “knowl­edge is power” and “an edu­ca­tion is the key …

By Bar­bara Henry
The con­cept of Sis­ter­hood is prob­a­bly one of the most con­fus­ing amongst black women and girls.  Not because the con­cept is for­eign to us, but because, more often than not, we are bom­barded with …

Have you ever been made to feel that your “look” is less-than what is deemed beau­ti­ful?  Have you ever looked at another girl and defined your own beauty based on her phys­i­cal appear­ance?  Have you …

Do You Like Writ­ing?
Do You Like Shop­ping?
Do You Like Talk­ing?
Why am I ask­ing?  Because any­thing that you like doing, can be turned into a busi­ness.  Any­thing.  Don’t take your tal­ents for granted.  Since you are …

 I’d like to start this off with a question…Okay a few questions…Stay with me though, okay?
What do you con­sider to be your most prized pos­ses­sion? What is that one thing you value more than anything …

Have you ever been “left behind” on an assign­ment because you didn’t com­pre­hend the sub­ject mat­ter?
Have you ever been afraid and/or ashamed to tell your teacher that you “don’t under­stand?”
Have you ever felt that other …