Truth is… I’m tired of meeting you. Yes, Grief came knocking again.
It had only been about six months since my dad passed when I found myself entering 2026 with one simple prayer:Please, let this year be lighter.
I needed a break from the heaviness. A break…
I was talking to a friend this week and realized something unsettling, so many of us ( me included) are in survival mode, even when it looks like we’ve made it out.
For all the language we use now, “the soft life”, there’s still this underlying current of…
For weeks, the buzz of Super Bowl Sunday has filled the air. Personally, I don’t know the stats or the players (except Stephon Diggs for the obvious reason). I’m just here for the food, the commercials, and the halftime show. Honestly, I’m watching the Super Bowl…
Every February, in honor of Black History Month, I do the same thing—I press play. I engulf myself in films that depict what we, as a people, have endured. One minute I’m watching Ruby Bridges, the next I’m deep into Rosewood, then somehow I’ve landed on Remember the…
This week, the internet was shocked by the news of Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict’s divorce after 14 years of marriage. Then news of Miguel and his wife and Tom Brady and his wife followed. Like any other traumatic yet gossip-worthy news that surface – think pieces…
Insomnia is no foreigner to me, but last night was different. News of the Supreme Court’s “proposed majority opinion” to overturn Roe v. Wade, nearly 50-year legislation protecting abortion rights in America, left me haunted by images of Justice Samuel…
We all want to be independent, but some of us have taken it too far. Are you suffering from “toxic independence”? Just one question, cousins – why do it all on your own, if you don’t have to? On this episode of Real Talk with Randi. your social media…
The spa industry may seem oversaturated, but that doesn’t mean black-owned spas can’t succeed and grow together. Self made entrepreneur Melissa is proof of this! Melissa Odum, better known as the Fairy Godmother of Skincare and Million Dollar Melissa has been…
While the idea of the micro-influencer was not new, giving it a name was a dead giveaway that the social media game was changing for ordinary people.
It amazes me that regular, everyday people have been able to make a living of some sort, one way or the other, from social…