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Role Models? Say who? Say what?

Posted by Jasmine Callender on Wednesday, October 13, 2010
I was on a routine trip to the grocery store with a friend when we stopped to look at some magazines.  It is not unusual for me to browse through the latest hair, fashion, hip hop, Essence, Ebony, Jet, etc. to be kept abreast of what is going on in our society and the next foolish trend that is going to emerge *smile*.  This particular day the magazine gods led me to Juicy magazine (I had never heard of it before).  I picked up the magazine and this is what I saw on the cover:



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This is one of my favorite poems by Nikki Giovanni....

Posted by Jasmine Callender on Friday, September 3, 2010 In : My Favorite Things 
"Ego Tripping"

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent
and built the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough
that a star that only glows every one hundred years
falls into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad
I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
to co...


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Word Bank Poetry

Posted by Jasmine Shakieer on Saturday, November 14, 2009
I found this in a notebook. I wrote it for a creative writing class I took in 2005. The assignment was to use the following words in a creative writing piece. 

Colored    Pregnant    Blue      Clan    Black     Pain   Kinfolk   White    Shattered   Secret    Forgot   Precious

Slave   Infant   Left   Inferior

This is what I came up with:

    It is here that I was born. A simple colored girl born into a colored clan of kinfolk.  Born into an unforgiving world.  Forgotten in my poverty.  Shattere...

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Kevin A. Williams (WAK)

Posted by Jasmine Shakieer on Sunday, September 13, 2009 In : My Favorite Things 
     Kevin A. Williams (known professionally as WAK) is my favorite artist.  He is a creator of Urban Fine Art and has the current most widely circulated Urban Fine Art series in the nation.  His paintings range in theme including: Love and Romance, Spiritual, Inspirational, Fraternity and Sorority, and Barber Shop and Beauty.  His paintings focus on uplifting as well as the appreciation of African American culture.  Below are a few of my favorite paintings by WAK.




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Is Beauty Colorblind?

Posted by Jasmine Shakieer on Sunday, September 13, 2009 In : Random Thoughts 
The issue of race, color, and beauty has been on my mind a lot lately.  I was on facebook and saw a group entitled Black is Beautiful.  There were numerous pictures of black women of different shades, sizes, ages, ethnicities, etc...and I must say in my opinion they were all beautiful.  So I decided to pay homage to the different shades of beauty also.  I went to google.com and somehow came across a blog entitled "Do you find black women attractive?"  Here are some of the responses:

I'm black,...

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