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Black Bloggers Connect: BHM Entry: “Be Careful of the Education You Keep”: Financial Lessons from Carter G. Woodson

I came across the opportunity to participate in Black Bloggers Connect Black History Month Challenge. I love history, love sharing information, and  love money! Here I am paying tribute to Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black History Month, who to me, possessed some of the most revolutionary thinking when it came to black folk

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Meet DreamGirl Lenée Voss: Radio Personality at HipHopisForLovers.com & Intimacy Advocate

With Valentine’s Day just a day old, it is fitting that our DreamGirl, Lenée Voss, is a fierce advocate of love, self-love, and intimacy. Unlike Valentine’s Day and its push for cheesy, cliche, and commercialized gestures of love, Lenée asks us to put on our big girl panties and big girl “thinking caps” to challenge and expand

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Meet DreamGirl Marissa, Candle Maker and Founder of Scents By Francesca

Marissa and I met while we studied abroad at the University of Legon, Ghana- almost thirteen years ago. Always the quiet, intense, and principled type, Marissa always sought purpose and meaning out of life. And me, never tired of deepening my understanding of how I fit into the rhyme and rhythm of this   world,

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Meet DreamGirl Joanne Hillhouse: Author of Oh Gad!

There is NO question about whether or not I am a black woman, but the question of my identity is a COMPLETELY different subject all together. Depending on when you ask me,why you ask me, or who is asking I may answer the questions “What are you?” or “What’s your background?” with any of the

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Meet DreamGirl damali abrams: Video and Performance Artist

damali and I have been friends for over a decade and for as long as I have known her, she has been an artist– fixed on giving her thoughts a voice through various media. She is as fiercely political as she is artistic and the dance that the two do is evident in her work.

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Meet Dream Girl: Toyia T. Taylor, Performing Artist & Founder of we.app (act.present.perform.)

Toyia Tynae Taylor is Fabulous N’ Frugal’s DreamGirl of the Week. I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Taylor back in 2004 when we were working together at an educational company. I remember the day that she had to leave the company due to a technicality. She called me and told me that it was

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DreamGirl: Marilyn Louis, Artist and Renaissance Womyn

Meet Marilyn Louis, Fabulous N’ Frugal’s DreamGirl of the week. Marilyn is young, intense, and creative (don’t just bypass Vulvas of Color, a tribute to the beauty and power of our va-jayjays showcased below) and I had the pleasure of meeting Marilyn at the Soup N’ Swap event held in December of last year. Like

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Dream Girl Friday: Ellen Bodkins,Founder of Ellen B Beauty/Face The Day NY

Ellen Bodkins is Fabulous N’ Frugal’s DreamGirl of the week. She is a make-up superstar, a dream chaser, and the founder Ellen B Beauty & Face The Day NY. Her story of  first doing her friend’s make-up in college  to now running her own business is inspiring. How did makeup become your passion? I got

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How to Touch Your Tantra: Interview with Lisa of LifeBliss Solutions

Back in 2007, I was a hot mess: without focus, pinning over some dude, and holding residual anger from a lifetime of accumulated disappointments. But luckily, I knew I needed help. I also knew that I did not want to go the traditional, sterile counselor or therapist route. What I did not know,though, was what

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It Takes A Village To Raise A Mogul: 5 Tips To Awaken The Financial Genius In Our Children

Give Me Your Lunch Money When I was in fourth grade, I rented out my erasable pens for $0.25 each as the class transitioned from writing in pencil and in print to writing in script and in pen. By the time I was eleven, I had moved on to peddling posters from Right On magazine

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