Who Wants To Do The PIK Toggle Wiggle Wobble?

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Who wants to do the what? I’m sure you must be reading this thinking this has to be the most absurd title for a newsletter ever delivered and you’d probably be right. Unfortunately, it is the most serious newsletter ever delivered…by far! Imagine what happens when the primary breadwinner loses a job. Depending on savings [...]

Everyday Ways To Prevent Breast Cancer

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When you look at the death statistics for breast cancer in African-American women and compare them to white women, it’s stunning. Beginning in their 20s, into their 50s, black women are twice as likely to die of breast cancer as white women who have breast cancer. In older black women, cases of breast cancer decline, [...]

Slippers, Switches and Belts: Understanding Black Folks Loyalty To and Love of Corporal Punishment

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Dr. Christina Edmondson Seems like everybody has a story…like the one my college pal told me about “coming to” after saying something “crazy” to her mother. Then, there is the one I heard in the barber shop to floods of laughter as the barber recounted running for his life from his mother. She was hot [...]

2011 Top 10 Small Business Ideas

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This year is probably the best time to start a business. Businesses have proven once again that they can survive under heavy pressure – they have adapted well. Although some big companies are going out of business in 2010, the natural selection has done its job: Giving chances to creative small businesses to strive and [...]

4 Financial Lessons From Steve Jobs

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By Bethy Hardeman Even PC users must admit that we can all learn a little something from Steve Jobs and the way he lived his life. The Apple co-founder was a great mind of our time, forever changing the way society thinks about personal computer use and digital media experience. Much of his perspective on [...]

My Cape’s in the Cleaners: Even Superwoman Needs Self-care

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by Dr. Christina Edmondson There’s a small space between resiliency and self-neglect. It’s a place where many Black and other shades of superwomen dwell. This “strong and independent” persona isn’t developed out of pride or ego, but rather a sense of timely necessity. Passed from generation to generation, this ethos is an unstated gift and [...]

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