We love…poetry by Carolyn Butts

At 44... Shed old, worn wrinkled skin Revealing soft inner soul glow   Life stretches into infinity years dissolve, unearthing the greater truth and power of spiritual awakenings   At 44, I gave birth to a...

Ntozake Shange…A chat with the illustrious writer

Ntozake Shange is one of the strongest voices in the history of African American creativity. As a poet and novelist, she helped to recapture...

Where is…actress Judy Pace?

The television landscape today is pretty diverse although some would argue that there could be more representation of Black, brown and yellow people. For...

We love…Haki Madhubuti’s poetry!

You Will Recognize Your Brothers   You will recognize your brothers by the way they act and move throughout the world. there will be a strange force about...

50-plussers get your sexy back!

Just because you’re a certain age does not mean you have to kick your sexy to the curb! You might have shelved your sexy...

Think you might have pneumonia?

Last September, Renisha Hodge, 63, left work early one day feeling as if she had been beaten with a ton of bricks--fever, chills, wheezing,...

Grown talk: We’re missing you Obama…

“Obama, we want you back!" As Black folks, many of us are thinking, ‘WTH is going on in the White House?’ Within those walls resides...

6 Holly jolly red lip picks

This holiday season rock a righteous red lip color. Who says just because you're a woman of a certain age, a red should be...

The reluctant fashionista shops bags

What woman does not salivate a little when she spots a bag that would be the crème de la crème of her collection?  Our reluctant fashionista, Judyth...

Dr. Derek Griffith discusses the alarming state of Black men’s health

There are alarming health disparities that still persist between Blacks and whites. It seems Black men are walking time bombs, plagued by such illnesses...

Truthspeak: Powerhouse poet and publisher Haki Madhubuti

He is like a quiet storm on the horizon, powerful, yet wrapped in a cloth of humility, Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti is a scholar,...

Jenifer Lewis of Black-ish talks BOLD with 50BOLD

We all know Jenifer (yes, spelled with one ‘n’) Lewis as the brazen spitfire Grandma Ruby Johnson on the ABC-TV hit comedy "Black-ish.” Lewis,...