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Ashley M. Coleman
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Aug 16, 2022

P-Valley is Top Tier

Lil Murda is our man now and Uncle Clifford has to deal. Spoiler alert* Don’t come reading this if you haven’t watched the grand fi-fi-fi-finale of P-Valley! *in my Uncle Clifford voice.* Katori Hall’s P-Valley has disrupted our lives in the best way possible with her TV-drama that highlights the…

Culture

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P-Valley is Top Tier
P-Valley is Top Tier
Culture

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Apr 7, 2021

Verzuz, The Platform Black Music Craved

Back in February of 2017, in the middle of the night, true music fans were blessed with an Instagram Live that featured Swizz Beatz and Just Blaze in an intimate studio setting surrounded by onlookers. They ran through their extensive catalogs back to back as Swizz talked some of the…

Dmx

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Verzuz, The Platform Black Music Craved
Verzuz, The Platform Black Music Craved
Dmx

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·Sep 29, 2020

Tiffany D. Jackson’s Latest Novel Centers the Vulnerability of Black Girls

The NAACP Image Award-nominated author gets deep in ‘Grown’ — In 2017, right before the release of her debut YA novel Allegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson wrote at a yoga and journaling workshop in New York City that her biggest hopes were for “peace and that people would like her books.” Since then, Jackson has written four books and racked up…

Books

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Tiffany D. Jackson’s Latest Novel Centers the Vulnerability of Black Girls
Tiffany D. Jackson’s Latest Novel Centers the Vulnerability of Black Girls
Books

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Jul 24, 2020

What is safe?

For Black women, it seems like a foreign concept. — I want to feel safe. That has been reverberating in my mind lately only to be met with the thought, there’s no such thing as safe for Black women. Not at the hands of those that claim to protect and serve. (Arrest the officers that killed Breonna Taylor.) Not among…

Black Women

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What is safe?
What is safe?
Black Women

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Apr 19, 2020

A Tale of Two Recessions

I’ll never forget calling to consolidate my student loans and basically getting a recording that said, everything is frozen right now, there’s nothing we can do. That was 2008 and without consolidation, my loan payments would have been something like $400 per month. In 2020, the experience has been very…

Economy

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A Tale of Two Recessions
A Tale of Two Recessions
Economy

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·Apr 1, 2020

Terry McMillan Proves That ‘It’s Not All Downhill From Here’

Her latest novel is a testament to her commitment to Black women’s lives and to her individual craft — In 1995, my nine-year-old self watched as Whitney Houston, Lelah Rochon, Loretta Devine, and Angela Bassett took the screen in Waiting to Exhale, the eponymous adaptation of Terry McMillan’s 1992 New York Times bestseller. At the time, I had no idea how revolutionary it was to see four Black women…

Terry Mcmillan

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Terry McMillan Proves That ‘It’s Not All Downhill From Here’
Terry McMillan Proves That ‘It’s Not All Downhill From Here’
Terry Mcmillan

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Feb 29, 2020

Yes, R&B Music is Alive and Well.

There just aren’t enough platforms supporting it. — The R&B community has been in a bit of a tizzy since the comments made by Brooklyn rapper Young M.A. that “R&B music just doesn’t feel the same anymore.” In her tweet from Feb. 24th, she stated: “ Music don’t feel the same because we barely have R&B, … R&B…

Music

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The R&B community has been in a bit of a tizzy since the comments made by Brooklyn rapper Young…
The R&B community has been in a bit of a tizzy since the comments made by Brooklyn rapper Young…
Music

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Jan 16, 2019

It Could Have Been Me

A Realization After Surviving R. Kelly. — There will be a million think pieces about Surviving R. Kelly, the six-part docuseries that aired on Lifetime in early January. But I couldn’t help but think of how easily it could have been me recounting stories of being a young woman just trying to “make it” in the music…

Women

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It Could Have Been Me
It Could Have Been Me
Women

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Oct 1, 2018

Navigating Toxicity and The Work

Watching the Season 3 finale of Insecure led me back to the thought I’d been having about toxicity vs. “the work,” of relationships and how do we know the difference? “We had matching luggage and we put in the work.” This statement was in response to Lawrence (Jay Ellis) telling…

Relationships

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Navigating Toxicity and The Work
Navigating Toxicity and The Work
Relationships

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Sep 24, 2018

Nappily Ever After & Getting Free

Sanaa Lathan played a role that many of us can identify with. — Along with the first kiss, first dates, and fallouts with friends, what seems etched in the minds of Black women is also the first time they cut their hair. In Black culture, there is an attachment to hair that has seemed to last through generations. At times there are tears…

Natural Hair

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Nappily Ever After & Getting Free
Nappily Ever After & Getting Free
Natural Hair

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Ashley M. Coleman

Ashley M. Coleman

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Writer and Author of GOOD MORNING, LOVE. Avid tweeter, because what is life without these jokes? http://ashleymcoleman.com.

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