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A Guide To Dealing With A Difficult Divorce	Best Day Ever!
What to Buy for Someone Who Loves a Touch of History	Yoga & More: How to Recover from an Injury
Five Times It’s Okay To Fake It	4 Easy Ways to Add Modern Touches to Your Home
How to Keep Stylish and Help the Planet	Haunted and Hunted: Emotional Justice for #TheExonerated5
3 Tips for Simplifying Your Life	Hosting A Great event
Notable E-store Trends	Her Name is Redoshi and She’s the Last Survivor of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
International Women´s Day Celebration: Think Equality, Build Smart and Innovate For Change	How To Create A Better Life For Yourself
How The Internet Can Help You Relieve Stress	Turn Your Love Of Cars Into A Business
Through a Glass Darkly: Georgetown University, Jesuits and Beyond the Legacy of Slavery	Why Manners Matter
Be Wary Of These Things During A Break Up	America: How We Can Get More Black Men into College
London’s China Town Hosts African Fashion Showcase	America: Black Workers Need "Real" Not "Fake" Paid Family Leave
America: Chicago Shows that the Price We Pay for Segregation is Too High	When Africans Send Money Home, European and North American Countries Profit Handsomely
Is Your Car Draining Your Bank Account?	Blackness as Public Nuisance
Adding A Little More Culture To Our Lives	What's Next for Autonomous Cars?
Learning How to Budget	Why Every Home Needs A Conservatory
How We're Fixing The World’s Political Issues	More Than #MeToo: Proper Action Against Sexual Crime
The Evolution of Mobile Gaming	Money Management: Making The Most Of What You Have
How You Can Ensure The Best Recovery Possible From An Accident!	Should You Give Money to the Homeless?
“But don't wait to jump in too long”	New Year, New Car?
“In a Perfect World . . .”: Shame, Sexual Violence and Black Collective Memory	How To Pick Work Clothes For Men
The Best Spots Around The World To Invest in a Holiday Home	10 Reasons Why Britain Is Truly Great
Renters: Tenancies Are Short But Relationships Last Forever	#MixShorts -- Love Languages: Three Generations (for Misha + AC)
From Shell To Showstopper: Your Guide To House Renovation Success	New Directions: Holding on When Your Life Suddenly Swerves
What Happens To Everyone When Brexit Is Really Put Into Place?	Speaking To Your Children About The Difficult Things In Life
Horse Racing And Its Diversity Downfalls	Choosing Honest Over Dishonest Mistakes
The Aftermath Of Charlottesville: Can Trump Take Control Of Racial Divides?	Home Extension Costs You Probably Haven't Considered
Love Your Location But Hate Your Home? Consider These Options	F.N.N: My Biafran Story
A Quick Guide to Refugees and Political Asylum	How Technology Has Changed Politics Forever (2 comments)
7 Ways To Save Your Relationship	What Would Immigration In The UK Look Like Under A Labour Government?
If Your Pastor Says 'Racism Isn't A Skin Problem' You Need To Find Another Church	Three Reasons Why Folks Tried to Take Away My Black Card and One Reason They’ll Never Get It
Debt Woes? Read This	What Is Life Like as a Police Officer in Britain?
Digital Unplugging - Five Ways to Pull the Plug	Where is Ollie Harrington When You Need Him?
The 4 Biggest Threats To Motorcyclists	Find Your Power In Connectivity
Top 6 Carnivals for People of African Descent this February	The Later King
President Barack Obama’s Farewell Speech	Road To Recovery: What To Do After A Car Crash
The Unimaginable: How To Deal With The Loss Of A Loved One	Making A Difference: Three Careers That Help You Give Back To Your Community
For the Incomplete Gesture, From a Black Girl Writing With Uncertain Instruments	A Close Brush With Death in Abuja
Doing These Three Things Can Ruin Your Relationship	Making The New Black Man
The Sad Business of Dealing with Will Disputes	Care Homes Are Failing - Who Should Look After Your Loved Ones?
Why Are So Many People Wrongfully Convicted Of Crimes?	Part II. Requiem for My Son’s Innocence
What Happens When Black Crime Rates Aren't "Neutral"?	Help Your Skin and Hair Soft with These Tips
Domestic Violence, Murder and Bresha Meadows	Design A Kitchen That's Perfect For Your Family
Before You Take on Debt, Discover What's Best (1 comment)	“Don’t White Lives Matter?”: at the Intersection of Privilege and Entitlement
America: Here Are Some States Where You Really Don't Want A DWI	We Need to Talk About Tyrone: What to Do If Your Teenager Is Using Drugs
How You Can Reduce The Amount Of Money You Waste Each Week	America: How To Encourage More Black Men To Enrol In Medical School (1 comment)
Common Problems Every Driver Will Face (And Solutions!)	Injuries At Work: Common Questions Answered
Movement for Black Lives Yields New Targets of the State	The Economic Implications Of Lifting Sanctions On Iran
Understanding The Causes Behind A Rise In Birth Defects	What Happens When You Are Charged With A Crime
How To Defend Yourself If You're Charged With A Crime	Why You Should Let Religion Be Your Guiding Light
Learn How To Be A Safer Biker With These Motorcycle Safety Tips	Fighting Traffic Charges? Take This Helpful Advice
Valentine's Day and the Language of Love	Hope for 2016 - A World Without Walls
Capitalism Gone Mad	Vodou: Unity of all Things
“We Have Nothing to Lose”: #MovementForBlackLives National Convening	The Charleston Imperative: Why Feminism & Antiracism Must Be Linked
Revisiting Frederick Douglass’ Famous Speech of 1852	Why You Can't Kill the Spirit of Mother Emanuel
“Keep running your mouth…”: The Policing of Black Children	Twisting the “Lessons of History” to Excuse Unjustifiable Violence: The Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
Freddie (Gray)’s Dead	Bloody Sunday and Black Tuesday Have Similar Meaning for Bahamians and Americans
My Hair and Beauty Transition	Congratulations!!! You Are Planning Your Wedding Budget
Do Black Lives Matter to #Black Lives Matter?	Financial Bliss for Newlyweds
Owerri: The End of Innocence	Poor: The Four-Letter Word American Politicians Avoid
At the Visual Crossroads: Blackness and the Matter of Life or Death	Building Partnerships Between Police Officers and the Communities They Serve
The Fire This Time	Chris Powell Takes Over at Huddersfield Town
Dear Civil Rights Leaders: This is not About You!	America: Reparations, Feminism and The Black Experience
Is the Criminalisation of Racism in British Football a Hollow Victory?	Why We Need To Talk About Condoms and Safe Sex to Young People
African Groups Call for the African Union to Respond to Gender and Sexuality Rights Violations	Black British Dating at Some of the Best African Restaurants in London
“Legible Thugs” – AntiBlack Racism is Bigger than Richard Sherman	Pretty Sparkly Things: A Black Girl’s Encounter With America’s Prison Industrial Complex
Queercide: Campaign Against Violence Against Women – Why We Must Document	A Man at His Peak? (with a nod to my first and favorite poet Nadine Turner)
The Traumatic Return of Michael Moses Ward	Feminist Chronicles: Delta Milayo Ndou
NAACP’s Outgoing President on the Power of Shared Vision and Partnership	Haiti: Photo Journalism or Poverty Porn
Is Inequality Shortening Your Life Span?	Nollywood and the Televisual Image of Nigeria
More Than Racism: Ebomaphobia Exposed	Black British Student Creates Interactive Eyeball Security System to Cut Crime
Dear Marriage Equality Advocates: I Can Not Celebrate with You Today	TheSWAGspot: Intimate Public Space to Talk Love, Lessons and Legacy With Men for Men
From Canaan 1, Haiti	No More Excuses?: The Myth of Black Uplift
A Response to A New York Times’ Article, ‘In Nigeria, You're Either Somebody or Nobody’	Cancer: More Than A Word
Cancer: My New Thing	Black Footballers Celebrate the Life of a World War 1 Black British Hero
Sacrificial Love	Haiti: In conversation with Flaurantin Marie Enise
Scar Story: On Beauty	Thoughts on Haiti
Post Super Bowl Blues	Revisiting Haiti
President Barack Hussein Obama’s Second Inaugural Address (Transcript)	Devin Jolicoeur and Police Violence Against Black Men in the United States
So, How Many Sexual Partners Have You Had?	Britain’s Ethnic Minorities Aren’t What You Think
Catwalk Star Charli Fletcher Hails the Rise of the Dark- Skinned Model	What Use is the Oncoming American Presidential Election to the Downtrodden of the World?
Restaurant Review: Goode & Wright	Occupy Guyana and the People’s Parliament
You Better Work!: Professors Talk Style Politics	Rape is Rape is Rape is Rape: It’s Not Date Rape, Statutory Rape, Forcible Rape or Legitimate Rape!
No Women Died: This is not a Women’s Issue!	Social Media Saved My Life!
The John Terry Verdict and Racism Within Our Judicial System	Why America Still Hates LeBron: The Natural, Horatio Alger and the Myth of Hard Work
Keeping Up Appearances: The Myth of the “Inner City”	A Circle of Friends: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke & Jim Brown
On His Way to Harlem: The Whimsical Soul of Gregory Porter	Can We All…Get It Right?: Remembering the Los Angeles Uprising
'No Hoodies Allowed’: The NBA’s Dress Code & the Politics of New Racism	In Conversation with History: Speaking Back to Trayvon
Death Without Sanction or Ceremony	Hurray for Kony 2012 and Africa’s Invisible Children!
Reading Kony 2012 and the Murder of Trayvon Martin	El Negro of Banyoles: An Embodiment of Europe’s Fixation With the Black Body
'LinSanity' and the Blackness of Basketball	Michael Rapaport’s Documentary on 'A Tribe Called Quest' Comes to Britain
Is Obama Enslaving the White Middle Class?	Serena Williams and the Politics of Hate(rs)
Is Kwanzaa Still Important?	On Returning to A Parent’s Final Place of Rest
Performing Herman Cain	The NBA Lockout and the End of an Era
What Occupy Wall Street Has Accomplished in Two Short Months	Race and the Cultural Politics of Tattoos
Amber Cole is My Daughter	Is Nicki Minaj Making Black Women Look Bad?
On Black History Month in Britain	Floyd Mayweather and the Demonization of Black Athletes
If Jay Z Met Fred Hampton	Shut Up and Play!
Lee Jasper on Boris Johnson's Handling of the London Riots	Black Sambo 2.0?
The Tea Party's War on Young Americans	The Return of Solidarity
Our Obsession With Land	What Drives Sports Fans?
Should Caribbean Countries Continue to Execute Murderers?	Dear President Obama, Europe has a Race Problem
We Are Malcolm X!	Diving Into Blue Holes and the Sargasso Sea
Neocolonial Fantasies	'The LeBrons' and a Discourse of Blackness
So What Do You Do, Uche Chukwu?	The Life and Times of Eddie King, Jr.
An Open Letter to Chris Brown	More Than Half of British Women Have Been Victims of Sexist Remarks or Behaviour
If Rape Isn't Rape, What Is?	Budgetary Cuts and Black Britain’s Mental Health
So What Do You Do, Lisa Bent?	Arizona is America!
Story of 2010 - The Big Freeze and the Big Society in Britain	So What do You do, Thomas Walker?
I Heart Feminism	Pink Ribbons for Black Women
Coming of Age: The Dark side of turning 18	Autumn and the Black British Hair
On Black History Month in the UK	On Fashion Diversity in Britain
On Postracial America	How Black Are You?
Yellow Fever: Skin Lightening Cream and the Fear of Invisible Blackness	The Lowdown on Learning Disability in the UK
Where to Honeymoon in Britain and Abroad	Do Women Really Want a New Kind of Black Man?
I Didn't Work This Hard To Get Married!	Black Women Turn to Online Dating to Find Love
Who is Afraid of Michael Eric Dyson?	On Jamaicaness
Black Masculinity and the Performance of Obama-Era Respectability	On Black Majority Rule in the Caribbean
Single, and Dating With Children?	Theatre: Talented Bola Agbaje Offers an Unsettling Piece
More than Asher D From So Solid Crew	Arinze Kene - A Star in the Making
On Being Black and English	The Audacity of 'Precious'
The Oprah Winfrey Legacy	British Dogs of War or International Terrorists?
Is Dizzee Rascal the Most Influential Black Londoner?	Does The BNP Have The Right To Be Heard?
From America to Britain: Why Are Our Youth Killing One Another ?	Are You A Real Jamaican?
Theatre: A Black Leader in a White World	The Cosby Redux
On Sovereignty and Second Homes	We Are All Caster Semenya!
Who’s Afraid of Van Jones?	Students, Shop Safely Online!
Heritage Renewal	Meet The Blythwoods
A World of Illusions	Delighting in That Golden Hour
Theatre: A Patchy Rendition of a Thin Script	The New Black: Out of Africa
The New Black	Shopping For Vintage With Funmi Odulate
Loving Michael!	Falling Into a Racial Trap - Part 2
Should Black American Stations Die?	Why Mother's Day is a Queer Black Left Feminist Thing
Still On Falling Into Racial Traps	The Delicate Art of Facebook Snooping
Trendy Britain!	Britain: How to Protect Victims of Human Trafficking
Do Black Men Hate Black Women?	Africa's Favourite Gumshoe Returns to the Small Screen
History as Choice not Accident	Why Culture Matters
Rihanna/Chris Brown: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (The Remix)	Anansi and the Magic Mirror
The Financial Pros and Cons of Living in Britain	Second Thoughts On Obama’s Inauguration
Recession-Proof Your Shopping List and Save!	Queen Bees
Christmas and the Single Dad	The Cars For 2009!
The Cars For 2009!	Obama May Have Won, But My Heart Belongs to Jamaica
Theatre: The Kids Are Not Alright	Theatre: When A Great Playwright Bombs
Lewis Hamilton Wins the Last Tango in São Paulo!	Binge Britain: Social Drinking and Weekend Boozing
Theatre: Ray Davies Gets Britain Dancing	Britain, America, Canada, Home is Always Best!
To The Chocolate Granola Gurl	The New Normal - High Prices Are Here To Stay
Britain: Raising Black Children	Living With Cancer
Much of Black America is Drowning in Poverty	Are You Stuck Inside a Manipulative Relationship?
Where Is Your Daddy?	Theatre: Inside Black Britain
The Topsy-Turvy World Of Formula One	Can A Scam E-mail Lead to Romance?
Why Do We Have Hang-ups About Sex In Films?	UK Immigration: Blacks And Browns Not Wanted
Theatre: A Divided Black Britain	Apples & Snakes: 25 Years of a British Pioneer
Is God Dead?	The Young and Peer Pressure
Theatre: On Britain's Busiest Street	The Complexities Of The Casual Date
The London Barbican Explores Multiculturalism	Hip Hop In Theatreland
Theatre: Immigration, Immigration, Immigration!	Theatre: On Britishness
Black Men, White Women: The Politics Of Race In America	On Australia's Aboriginals
Too Hot In Paradise	War And Peace:A Star Playwright Talks About His Experience In Theatreland
Theatre: The British-African Way Of Life	Theatre: Benjamin Zephaniah Talks Black British Men’s Prostate
Theatre: A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing	Theatre: The Queen Of Jazz And The Platinum Blonde
Hip Hop's Still Invisible Women	Film: In The Begining, There's The Blues
Theatre: The Real Africa in London	The Magic of Afrika! Afrika!
What If She Won't Give It Up?	Technology is the Root of All Evil
In Search of the Ultimate High!	Malorie Blackman's Award-Winning Children Story Comes To The Stage
How Young People Can Gain From Out Of School Hours Activities	Wild Thing!
Why Are Black Boys Failing in Britain?	A Love Letter From a Black Father to His Daughter
Not Just Another Caribbean Cookbook	A World Of Good With Desmond Tutu
Theatre: No Ordinary Joe	The King is Back!
Is This Supreme Court Judge the Most Dangerous Black Man in America?	I Luv U and Other Things You Should Never Send in a Text Message
The First Nigerian Social Night in Birmingham and the Midlands	Omissions in Black History Month in Britain
Gays in the Pulpit	Legalise Them
Theatre: A Slavery Journey	The Rise of the Griot
Pull Up Your Pants, Boy!	The Rise of the Griot
To Be Black and Female in America	Adoption, Masculinity and the New Black Man
London's Notting Hill Carnival in Colour	A Cheeky Dose of Ganja
Adoption, Masculinity and the New Black Man	Our Kids Are Not Alright
Some Useful Tips That Will Help You Lose Weight	Still on Images of Savages
Stephane Dunn on Tamara Dobson	Is Love Real or a Human Construct?
A Young Man's Love Affair With Baseball	The Business of God
Film Review: A Real Feel Good Movie	Pole Star
A Car Rejuvenated	Our New Car Columnist on a Great Car Engine and its Enduring Legacy
The Fallacy of Race	Being Oprah's Cousin
White, High Yellow, Brown or Dusty Black: Why Race Matters	Hail to the British Summertime
Do White Audiences Want to see a Black Man Sleep with a White Woman?	We Love These Ladies
How to Study at a Top University for Free	Raising Awareness of Tuberculosis
The Fallacy of Slavery Abolition Commemorations	How a Rastaman Captured Our Taste Buds
The Shadow of Slavery on Contemporary Art and Design	Truth, Damn Lies and Wikipedia
The Annals of Black-On-Black Violence	Sokari Ekine On Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls: The Greatest Song Ever Filmed	Is There Really A Maternal Instinct?
For Brothers Only: Resolve To Get In Gear This Year!	Are You Alive Or Just Existing?
Why Dreamgirls Is An Instant Hit	The New Black Magazine's Article of the Year: Africans and the European Soul
Why You Should Try a Pig's Head	Can Britain's Ethnic Minorities Feel at Ease with the Conservative Party?
Hypermasculinity and the Black Male	The Myth of the Strong Black Women
The British Prime Minister on the Horror of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade	Profile: Johnson Beharry
Race, Class and the Tyranny of Worldviews	Ten Keys To Health For Black Men
Australia's Endangered Black People (Part 2)	So You Want to be a Writer? Think Again or go for Journalism
Of Fairytales and Propaganda	Desmond Tutu on Darfur: A Blind Eye to Genocide
On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's brilliant second novel	Poem: War Before my children
Theatre: Jamaica's sex tourism in Nottingham, England	On slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean
Susana Baca: The queen of Afro-Peruvian music	Face off: Hotel Rwanda vs. Shooting Dogs
Immigration: How Black America is focusing on the wrong issue	Haiti gets another chance
The Cosby Show: Immortalized	So You Say I "Talk White"
Memoir of an illegal immigrant: Part 1	On Blacks and university education
How to pay for your MBA education	Why Mathematics Must come before MTV Base
Tupac Shakur In The Classroom	On Cancer Victims And Those Who Are Left Behind
Wanting to Exhale: Black And Smoking	Podcast: Byllye Avery's Words Of Inspiration For Black Women
The Nature of Talent And The Magic Of Literature	An Expert's Dilemma
Looking After Your Hump - Your Lovely Lady Lump!	Nigeria: In Search of PhDs
A Different But Laudable Black History	Keeping it Real and Acting White
Britain: Educating Black Boys	Understanding Hurricanes
The Explainer on Food Crisis

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