Getty Images/ Jason Kempin By Sharee Silerio This year’s Black Girls Rock! Awards is all about love. In a promotional video for the show, host Taraji P. Henson tells us that love is the force, the remedy and the solution to all that is amiss in this world, especially for the Black community, particularly for Black women. Love. We hear…
Pictured: 8-year-old, Nia Mia Reese. She wrote her first book at 8 and made the Amazon Best-Seller list. How often have you heard 8-year-old and best seller in the same sentence? It’s probably a first for us. Continue Reading 8-year-old Nia Mia Reese is doing some pretty amazing things. Reese recently made the Amazon Best Seller list for her book…
Photo by Bryan Allen Lamb Written by Mike Orie of TheConsciousTip.com According to USA Today, over 40 million students currently have student loans across the United States. This amount now totals to over 1.2 trillion dollars in debt. Chicago singer, by way of St. Louis, Krystal Metcalfe falls into that category. In her new release “Sallie” Metcalfe speaks on her…
Beverly Bond at the 2016 Black Girls Rock! Awards Written by Mike Orie of TheConsciousTip.com Black Girls Rock! founder Beverly Bond is publishing a book celebrating Black women. The book is titled, Black Girls Rock!: Celebrating the Power, Beauty and Brilliance of Black Women. According to a statement released by Bond,the book will “combine powerful photography with inspirational advice, original…
Photo courtesy of Black Girls Code By Mike Orie of TheConsciousTip.com Black Girls Code is moving into the Google offices in New York. Tomorrow, the non-profit organization will set-up shop inside a 3,000 sq. foot space which will be used as a classroom as well as a base for its East Coast programming. Continue Reading Black Girls CODE is a…
image courtesy of NecoleBitchie By Candice Selby of Simplistic Chic Hey ladies! Just wanted to dish about Black Girls Rock, an awards show which aired on BET this past Sunday. Did you see it? This show honored women and girls of color, encouraging empowerment and positive self-development. It was a well put-together show hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina…