Welcome! TO THE URBAN BEAUTY COLLECTIVE

By Mobolaji Olambiwonnu

So here’s my thing…Africa is not the motherland. Don’t go there expecting people to be any more happy you came to visit than any brotha or sista you meet on the street in your city. People have got lives, and yes, that includes Africans. They have no more memory of our history than we do of theirs. Or, even worse, like many of us, they don’t know history at all and could care less what happened in the past when they can’t… Continue

For Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's senior adviser, and Desirée Rogers, the White House social secretary, life revolves around the agendas of the president and the first lady and their commitments to the American people. The way they see it, life doesn't get much better than this.



They each instinctively have a sense of what is right for the other, forming a collaborative spirit and an unshakable trust that's immediately… Continue

By Yaminah Ahmad

As a writer I’ve often run into people who want my services but don’t have the money to pay for it. Sometimes a person will offer some sort of trade deal where they give me tickets to something, have a designer create something for me, comp me a dinner and reimburse me for gas mileage, that sort of thing. But what I realize is there are some people who have no intentions of honoring my fee, they just want access to my… Continue

By Genevia Fulbright

What did rag man Oxy Woxy, ice man Mike, or milk man Joe all have in common?

Besides being service providers from the 1940s operating in various Houston communities, they all lived within their means and knew how to save money.

Why save money?



I never had a chance to meet Mr. Oxy Woxy, but from what I hear he was already into “green” initiatives by recycling rags and running a side-line vegetable… Continue

By Big Lez

JAYSON WILLIAMS TASERED BY POLICE

Now this is a case we haven’t heard about in quite a while. Former NBA star Jayson Williams was tasered by police in his posh hotel suite Monday after the reportedly suicidal ex-NBA star resisted their attempts to take him to a hospital.



Associated Press claims the police were called to the hotel in Manhattan when a female friend reported the former New Jersey Nets player was… Continue