[AKA_Monet]

Even though the model Kebede is on the cover of Vogue this month--or some supermarket fashion magazine she still has hair that isn't hers all the way... However, she is a very pretty darker toned--not the rich deep dark chocolate drop--but a nice tone girl that I just noticed to grace the fashion magazines...

I do think that these "fashion" (why I keep trying to type 'facist' is beyond me) magazines have "ebbs and flows" of what is popular and what is not... I thought the "Source" was beginning to change it, until the music started turning into a "tittie bar scene"...

Anyhoo, Alice Walker's the "The Life of Grange Copeland" short story of "You can't keep a good woman down" addresses this issue in and of itself.

And Paula Giddings does a good job in "When and Where I Enter"...

The other books that are useful are "Black Feminist Thought", "The Black Woman in America", and "Black Athena"... Although there is a huge arguement with Bernal and the Pan Afrikanists...

In short, you ought to tell these boys to write an essay about the Queen of Sheba, what her name truly is and the relevant importance she had in reshaping the whole of Eastern Africa...

Queen Nzingha is another historical figure they ought to research...

Hapshepset...

Neith...

Nut...

Auset...

Okoluleone...

Hayle, let them read Nikki Giovanni's "Ego Trippin'" about "even ERRORS being correct" and they will have a whole new view of women of Afrikan descent...

However, I do find some irony that this topic is on the AKA Ave... But that's just me...

However, I am a "sepia colored sistah" married to a "light honey toned" man--and I love me some "special dark chocolate"--like Hounsou style... But I the man I love the most who returned my love was carmelized...

Oh vell...