When I was in undergrad at Florida A&M University, I was a regular at the library. One day, two of my guy friends joined me in a study room and as we usually tended to do, we joked and laughed about the normal college things. Well about 5 minutes into the conversation, one of them […]
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Happy Sunday! One of my favorite things here on the blog is Poetry Pick Sunday’s. On these days I feature poets and their poems that I’ve grown to enjoy. Rudy Francisco has been featured here 2 other times and you can find those poems here: Poetry Picks: “Your God” & Poetry Picks: If I was a Love Poet […]
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It’s currently 5:09 a.m. and I’m in the airport. I came to Miami Wednesday evening to see J. Cole in concert and now I am preparing to leave and return to my regular routine back home. It’s always nice to get away for a few days even if you don’t do much during that time. […]
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So, I’ve had the intention of writing this blog post for over a year now. (Procrastination sucks) However, today felt like I should finally get around to it. I took the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) in February of 2017. I’d just applied to a graduate school that offered a nice program for what I wanted to […]
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We haven’t had a good poetry pick on Sunday in a while, right? Well you’ll be happy to know that today we return with a poem by Alyesha Wise titled, To This Black Woman Body (part 1). Press play and Enjoy…
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Hey y’all! Today I’m back with a little motivation for you and this time it’s coming from one of the original Kings of Comedy, Bernie Mac. The late comedian was known for making us laugh until we cry but I think his words of wisdom sometimes go unnoticed. I found an interview from the Oprah […]
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Welcome back to Style Stars! If you recall the last Style Star entry, you may remember the reference to these lyrics: “Watch out world I’m grown nowwww!” The lyrics are from the intro song to the hit show, ‘Grownish’ but the intro song is from the album of sisters Chloe and Halle. The duo began on […]
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What’s up y’all? I hope you’re doing well and drinking an adequate amount of water. Remember in the last book review I was telling you how I’d been slacking on my reading list for the year? Well, the good news is I’m almost on a roll now because I just finished a new book. This […]
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Watch out world I’m grown nowwww! If you know the show that this now infamous lyric originates from then I’m sure you know who Yara Shahidi is. Star of the Freeform show, Grownish, Yara is a young starlet in the making. After appearing on the hit show Blackish, Zoe’s character got her own spin-off as […]
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This morning after church I want to the 10 a.m. showing of ‘Sorry to Bother You’, a film by Boots Riley. I’d been trying to go see it for a few days now but for some reason I kept delaying the task of driving to the theatre, picking a seat, being disappointed by concession prices… […]
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