Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
On this day June 19th, also known as Juneteenth, we reflect on the last days of our ancestors being told of their “freedom” and being physically enslaved was no more. Here we are now over 150 years later living in a world where so many are still enslaved and treated unfairly and here in…
The origins of Reggae music are in Jamaica in the late 1960’s and thanks to Bob Marley it has become global. After his death in the early 1980’s, the music became even more popular and widely recognized as people from the Caribbean islands live all over the world and people from all over the world…
As a kid, little boys almost always have their mother spoiling them and little girls have their father wrapped around their fingers, but of course the love from both parents is unmatched and in the end both boys and girls deserve love from their Father’s. One of the definitions of “Father” is a man who…
The 70’s were before my time but it’s often talked about by those who were around as one in which there was lots of dancing and style, but also one of poverty and struggle for many families. The music often represented all of these things and one of those artists was the great Stevie…
According to many successful real estate investors now is the time to buy a home as the prices are lower even with the higher interest rates because one can always refinance when the rates drop. In the United States of America, the numbers of people from various racial groups who own a home are as…
I was born in the 80s, but raised in the 90’s, I believe every genre of music in the 90s was great, do you agree? I could do the Humpty Dance, become A Genie in A Bottle, and wonder How Do I live all in one decade of music because all of it was…
Going to bed at night or day depending on your work schedule is a ritual because you set up your environment in a way that helps you relax and be in comfort until you must wake up. This includes the temperature of the room, the sheets on your bed, but most importantly the clothing (or…
Recently, my husband and I had a conversation about women having a career and then having to come home to another job of cooking/cleaning/raising children versus women who are stay at home. In the past generations, mostly with two parent household families before the 1980s, women usually stayed at home while the men worked…
I love to watch documentaries and the docuseries, “Dear Mama” about the relationship between the rapper Tupac and his mother Afeni Shakur is a must watch to better understand the artist, the role his mother played within his life, and the many parallels of the separate lives they lived. Not to give too…
It is now college graduation season and I want to congratulate all those who have made it through to the end. Going to college is a beautiful thing if it’s your choice to go, so you deserve all the respect for going on the journey. But the way my student loans are set up…