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Ariell Johnson, Pioneering Black Female Comic Book Store Owner Appears on the Cover of Marvel Comic Book
What a time to be alive! First, Marvel Comics welcomes not just one, but THREE Black female writers. Then, Marvel Comics introduces Riri Williams, a fictional black female teenager who's an inventor and engineer, and fights alongside Ironman. Now, Marvel Comics is...
Is Your Business a Source of Bondage?
This quote came to me after my coach challenged me in a coaching session. When I told him that one of my core values is freedom, he said: No, it's bondage." I was stumped... How could that be? So, my coach spent the rest of that coaching session showing me all the...
How the Spirit of Independence Ruins a Black Female Business Owner’s Revenue
I finished watching Season 1 of the Netflix produced series called Marvel's Luke Cage. I have quite a bit to say about the series, but for now, I want to focus on one character. Her name is Mercedes "Misty" Knight and she's a Harlem NYPD Detective... She appears in...
Cholofit Workout – Turning Your Mess Into Money
I love profiling people who take something, improve it, and become a category of one. So, when I stumbled upon the Cholofit Workout, I was gleefully pleased. Cholofit is led by a man named Creeper... He's a Latino man who's a former gangbanger and comes across as...
The Rise & Fall of the Mid-Atlantic Accent
I love watching movies from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. I consider this period to be the Golden of Film (seems like I'm not the only one to think this). There's a curious thing I noticed in some of the films of that era... Most of the actors spoke in a weird accent. It's...
Converting Old Shopping Centres Into Micro Lofts
The number of shopping centres being abandoned is well documented. While it's a North American habit to tear down older buildings, some are seeing the beauty in using the abandoned buildings for something else. Some are being turned into hospitals; others, into...
Reimagined Black Fictional Film & Children’s Story Characters
Found this by way of a group I belong to on Facebook. Someone (who?) created Black versions of fictional characters from films, books, and children's stories. Take a peek at each photo in the series... [gallery type="”circle”" columns="2" link="none" size="medium"...
How Unresolved Slave Trauma Affects How We Handle Money
I graduated with a degree in History (how I ended up in tech is a loooooong story) and I studied the effects of the trans-atlantic slave trade on Caribbean and Latin American communities. Since getting my degree, I've come back to studying how the trauma of slavery...
Who Really Is Marvel’s First Black Female Writer?
So, who is actually the first Black woman to write for Marvel? That's the question being posed after Roxane Gay was celebrated as the first. But then questions started to pop up... In an article written on The Blerdgurl, it reported that Nilah Magruder is the first...