January 15th, 2012 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Living Life
In the last week I must have watched at least 20 different sketch comedy skits on YouTube under the new-age mantra: Sh*t (Insert Demographic/Group Here) Say. Of course some are funnier than others, but my favorite one so far has got to be: Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls The vlogger who created this video, Franchesca Ramsey, was [...]
September 7th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Living Life
This past weekend I attended the Krio Descendants Union Global “Family Reunion” [See pictures here]- a weekend all about celebrating the culture and heritage of Krios, which is an ethnic group in Sierra Leone. An ethnic group that biologically I belong to, but one I had nearly no idea how it separated me from [...]
August 17th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Living Life
“You call yourself Pro-Black-Women and you watch Basketball Wives?” That’s what my best guy friend told me yesterday after I twitted that I spent Monday afternoon catching up on Basketball Wives Season 3- just in time for the Reunion Show. “That show is the #1 offender when it comes to making black woman look bad [...]
August 16th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, V.Connect
In the world of Social Media you can get to know a lot about someone via Facebook and Twitter- and based on what I’ve seen- one of the hardest working men in New York is Kevin Benoit, owner of Parle Magazine. So when Kevin told me about the play, Georgia he was producing/directing I knew [...]
July 17th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Podcast
Listen Here: Essence Magazine- for those that may not know- is a 40 year-old publication that aims to put Black woman first in news, entertainment and motivation. I got that straight from there website… And this week the African-American Womens magazine, outraged many of its readers by hiring Michael Bullerdick, a white male, as its new [...]
July 10th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Podcast
Listen Here: So were you following the Casey Anthony case? Honestly I must admit- I was not. After hearing the initial news (years ago) of Casey waiting 31 days to report her daughter, Caylee, missing… hearing how she lied about her daughter being kidnapped… and then hearing that the remains of little Caylee were found… [...]
July 3rd, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Podcast
Listen Here: My interest in this weeks topic started after I read Shaunie O’Neal’s commentary on CNN: Negative portrayals of black women on reality TV Now in case you don’t know Shaunie is the ex-wife of NBA star Shaquille O’Neal and she’s the executive producer and star of the VH1’s reality show “Basketball Wives.” This [...]
May 30th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Living Life
As you know I went natural last year March, but it wasn’t until April 25th, 2011 that I displayed my Afro-puff for the world to see. As I walked out of my house my heart was literally pumping super hard and I felt like the whole world was staring at me. And while I was [...]
May 13th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Dating & Relationships, Videos
So we all remember Chilli from TLC’s checklist right?: Did you agree with Chilli’s dating coach Tionna Smalls? Were her standards messed up? Do you have a dating checklist of your own? I wanted to find out who does and why:
March 24th, 2011 | by Ms. Veralyn | published in Blog, Dating & Relationships, Videos
Is a successful career at odds with a successful relationship? During my last trip to my birthplace of Freetown, Sierra Leone, I wanted to see if educated African women face the same dating challenges as their American counterparts. Listen to what I found: How do you define being independent? What do you make of what [...]
In honor of #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth: Sh*t Men Say to Men Who Say Shit to Women on the Street
Love being surrounded by trees! This it’s going to be an amazing summer! #BKLove
