I am a regular reader of The Root, and being the domestic bella that I am, I particularly enjoyed Veronica Chambers column, The Nest. I’m a little heartbroken that she’s ending it today. (But she just started an ADORABLE children’s clothing line! Good for you, Veronica!) Anyhoo, she did a post in June that got…
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Hey Sasha! Hey Malia!
I haven’t been this happy to see an interview with a seven or ten year old in… ever… but did you all see the Obama family on Access Hollywood? OMG, ADORABLE. Malia (who is waaaaayy more collected than I was as a ten year old) sometimes thinks her dad is embarrassing, and Sasha doesn’t like…
So, How was the Essence Festival?
Being the live music baby that I am, I was heartbroken to not be able to make it to this year’s Essence Music Festival. Did you go? If you did, I’m jealous! From everything I’ve read so far, the event was spectacular and the lineup was SICK — Kanye, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Jill Scott, Ledisi,…
In Or Out Of Vogue
“Did you see that Italian Vogue is having a black issue?” “When are you going to write about the all-black issue of Vogue, Bella?” I can’t tell you how many versions of that message I got when Stephen Meisel’s smoldering photographs hit the internet. And oh, are they ever amazing. Seeing those photos took me…
Shave Em Down, Make Em Smooth
Every day I come home from work to an inbox overflowing with e mails, most of which are comments about the most recent post. But sprinkled in between, I get comments from classic posts — stuff I’ve written a while ago and totally forgotten about. Just last week I got a comment about Excuse Me…
How To Support Charity (And Still Buy The Stuff You Want)
I always like to tell myself, if I were rich, I would live in a relatively modern and plush home, but instead of cars and Hummercopters, I’d spend my money on traveling and donating to charity. As it is right now in my check-to-check state of this-ain’t-livin’, I wish I could donate to charities more….
Throwback Thursday — Luther, Luther, Luther
I never met him, never knew him, but I miss him. Luther Vandross was a rare artist, a man with a golden voice, and from all appearances, a golden personality. Having grown up on his music — raise your hand if you had a copy of The Best of Luther Vandross at your crib! —…
Worth a Click
You know how much I love an inspiring story about bellas making their way in the world… Meet Window Snyder, head afrobella in charge of security at Mozilla Firefox. Her Kenyan-born mother, Wayua Muasa, taught her to program the early computer programming language Basic, when she was five years old. When I was five, I…
Goodnight, George Carlin
Wow. 2008 is shaping up to be a terrible year for celebrity deaths. The last thing I expected when I turned on the news this morning, was to learn that legendary comedian George Carlin was dead. Carlin, age 71, succumbed to heart failure on Sunday evening. Angry, biting, but always funny — the man who…
Blog Sister Love
Afrobella really just started out as a whimsical avenue for self expression. I didn’t expect to develop such a vibrant, wonderful readership, and I definitely didn’t expect to discover a kind of sisterhood in blogging. In my earliest days, I found inspiration and support in some blogs, and an online friendship with some others. Now…