No Shame in Using Food Stamps

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I was at the supermarket checkout line when the cashier asked me if I wanted to make a donation for the needy. I would have liked to, but instead, I flashed my food stamps card and shook my head, saying: “I can’t. This time, I’m the…
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Barefoot Books Supplements Income and Promotes Diversity

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Barefoot Books was launched in 1993, by Nancy Traversy and Tessa Strickland. Nancy wanted to stay at home with her first baby. She had a degree in Business and had worked in Design as well. Tessa Strickland had been an editor at Penguin and…
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Mothers Weep in Alabama...Once Again

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How many mothers are weeping in Alabama? That’s what I keep asking myself as I scan the headlines and news stories coming out of the state now known as home to the harshest immigration law in the country. That’s what I keep wondering…
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Teal is the New Black: 5 Ways to Add it to Your Wardrobe

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Seen all over the this season’s runways, teal is a surprisingly neutral color—a refreshing shade that can be worn just as often as black or cream with the added bonus of brightening up any skin tone. But if you’re not quite ready to trade…
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My Fashion Database: Zoe Saldana's Fashionable New Venture

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She’s drop-dead gorgeous, insanely talented, and super stylish—as if there weren’t enough reasons to envy Zoë Saldana, we have one more: she’s a brilliant businesswoman too! Zoë and her fiancé, former model Keith Britton, have partnered…
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Not What, But Who I Am: One Latina's Evolution

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In the mid-1990s I was covering a political rally in California with a Latina colleague when a Brown Beret asked a version of the question we’d both heard for years: “We hear you guys in Texas call yourselves Hispanics. What’s up with…
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Reebok Easytone Shoes: And the Verdict Is...

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I remember seeing the advertisement nearly two years ago. I was on the couch with two of my best friends, Kim and Megan, watching TV and eating Chinese. We couldn’t find the remote to fast-forward through the commercials. And God forbid…
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Sew '70s Project Runway Recap: Episode 10

At the Atlas, Anya and Kimberly are still recovering from the menswear challenge and their brush with elimination on the previous week of Project Runway. Josh M., back to his old sassy self, comments that at this point in the competition everyone…
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Twitter Etiquette: No Raunchy, Ridiculous, or Rude

Once you get the hang of Twitter, it can be rather addictive. A virtual conversation in 140 characters or less becomes an easy, fun way to communicate. But when you look at all of the tweets from your tweeps (people who twitter), how many…