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Formal "hair-tire":

Casual "hair- tire":

Family pet

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Hello Ladies of the diaspora.  Is it just me or do you find a curious pattern in the following images? Read full post »

    Concha Buika Bob Hoskins

Philemona Franz, writer

Roza Taikon, artisit

Bronislawa Wajs, poet

Sir Micahel Caine, actor

Sir Charles Chaplin, actor, director

Django Rheinhart, jazz musician

The Prez

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(Zapiro, Cartoonist; Nadine Godimer, author; Charlize Theron, actress/filmmaker; Athol Fuyard, author)

“I am more African than you are!” 

This challenge has been hurled at me far too many times for me to coun… Read full post »

Standing outside of the movie theatre in Nice, France, my husband and I looked at one another… completely perplexed…shrugged our shoulders and went to dinner.    

We had waited until the initial hullabaloo had subsided, before seeing this movie at the R… Read full post »

Ask any French Woman and she will most likely tell you that of all the world’s women, Italian (ie: Sophia Loren) and Black American (ie: Tina Turner) women are the most chic and age the most gracefully.  I can attest to this having lived in France for over a decade.

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 A word of advice to American Blacks in France. Don’t let Africans bait you with issues of racism in France. If you are an American and Black in France, confronted with this bait, I suggest you resist the temptation to discuss something we are entirely unqualified to discuss.… Read full post »