Who Values You As A Black Woman « Acts of Faith In Love & Life

Black Women Hair Angst Should Not Be Open For Public Consumption

I could actually take the “Hair” out of the title of this post and leave it as is. Black women angst should NOT be open for public consumption!! I find these conversations to be challenging, painful and difficult. They require time and great care as we sort through things. The issue is they’re often full [...]

Jimi Izrael: The Root’s Resident Misogynist Is At Again

Of course since we know Skippy Gates is the “mastermind” behind starting The Root on behalf of his white benefactors (at the Washington Post) my thoughts on this shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. I’ve already made my feelings known that Gates offers NO VALUE to black women whatsoever. It’s why we have to [...]

Asking Black Women to Change Is Part of A Larger Spiritual War

Every time I wonder what I’m going to write about, if I’m offering something of substance and whether I should cut back on my blogging schedule of daily posts I am constantly inspired! A few thoughts occurred to me as I was writing Part 2 of Getting to Where We Want. One is that it’s [...]

The White Media Sure Loves To Promote Black Woman Angst Don’t They?

If I have to read another tired article about how black women have such a hard time with: a) Our hair b) Our dating prospects c) Our bodies I WILL SCREAM! “If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed,” the comedian Paul Mooney, sporting an Afro, says in the documentary “Good Hair,” which won [...]

Lessons African-American Women Can Learn From Watching the Terrell Owens Reality Show

Be careful about who you give your support and time to. We need to stop celebrating the individual pursuits of blacks as if it’s something that automatically uplifts everyone. You should find out if these black male (actors, athletes, music artists, politicians, etc) are willing and able to uplift women like you. So a [...]