Every now and then I visit the website, MediaTakeOut. They have this feature on the site which is called Ratchetness or something very close. Well, its a photo feature of someone who has on the worst outfit ever. I mean really unspeakable outfits. This morning I was wondering, “How does a person develop a “ratchet” [...]

I’m sending a big Shout Out to the ladies of Delta Sigma Theta of the Palm Coast Flagler County Alumnae Chapter for selecting Retaliation as their 2011-2012 book for the Delta Gems & Delta Academy girls! There are hundreds of books that they could have chosen, but they chose one of mine. I thank you! [...]

I’m excited because my indie book Retaliation is in its 5th printing. I remember when my first book, The Blueprint for My Girls hit its 4th printing. I believe I was on a college tour with authors K’wan, Brandon Massey and Jamise Dames. I remember thinking how exciting it was… Well, in my birthday month, [...]

I am so thankful for the people that I’ve met in my career. The legendary Lee Bailey is a colleague who I can say is the real deal and is always about supporting what is on and poppin. Lee is always the founder of RadioScope and EURWeb! Wonderful writer, Ricardo Hazell, wrote a piece on [...]

In celebrating 30 days of Yasmin — 30 days of literacy, film and empowerment–this is one of my empowerment messages.  9/23  to 10/23/11 – Join the Movement… As rough as life is, and it does get rough, there are things for which we should be thankful . When I look at my life, I am [...]

As a part of my 30 days of Yasmin celebration — I’m celebrating my birthday for 30 days this year–I am scheduling Skype booktalks and film talks with youth schools and organizations. At no cost to you, we can have a 30 minute conversation on the following topics: The Blueprint for My Girls – Self [...]

Some of you may know that my birthday comes every year on October 23rd.  This year in celebration of my birthday, I’m sending out autographed copies of Retaliation for $10… I’m paying for the shipping to anywhere in the continental US for the $10 purchases. I’m starting my celebrating on today, September 23! [We have [...]

Yesterday I took a call from a parent who asked me what to do about her 15 year old daughter being bullied. The bullying had started last year and this parent had been to the principal and not received any help. In fact, the parent went to the principal and the principal told the mother, [...]

This is not a post about weaves! Let me say that first. This is not a post about naturals, dreads, braids, extensions or anything of that either! But, after looking at a recent photo of Lindsay Lohan’s little sister, Aliana, it got me to thinking about plastic surgery and other physical enhancements. I think I’m [...]

I jump at opportunities to discuss the girl fight epidemic. So it was my pleasure to write an article about my experience since I began to really study and engage teen girls on the subject of girl fights. I hope you will read and enjoy the article. It appears that both hatred and hopelessness is [...]

The online love continues… Dangerous Lee just posted an interview article on me, They Call Me Dae and my work on girl fights entitled, “Hut, 2, 3, 4 What the hell are we fighting for?” Thanks Dangerous. As I’ve been saying for the past several weeks, it takes a village to start a movement. Dangerous, [...]

We received such overwhelming feedback at our first screening event in NYC in April  that we decided to have another private screening in NYC. This time our event is being hosted by Big Ced, Founder of the Industry Co-Sign!  Big Ced is well known in NYC so we’re looking forward to him hosting us at [...]