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Black History Month Celebrates Tyra Banks!

Supermodel, Actress and Media Mogul Tyra Lynne Banks was born on December 4, 1973 in Inglewood, California. Tyra started modeling at age 15 while she was in high school and at age 16 she got signed to Elite Model Management after being turned down by many agencies. Tyra put her college plans on hold to travel to Europe for a modeling opportunity. She moved to Milan and by her first runway season she was booked for 25 shows at Paris Week in 1991. Soon afterward, Tyra appeared on the covers of Elle and Teen Vogue magazine, Tyra is now a contributor to the Vogue Italia website. While in Europe, young Tyra Banks had become a regular on the catwalk and was featured in several advertising campaigns modeling for some of fashion's greats like Chanel, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Ralph Lauren and Nike. Tyra returned home to the United States in the mid-1990's to further her career. Tyra Banks broke color barriers in the modeling world when she became the first Black woma...

First Lady Michelle Obama is My Homegirl

In light of the Melania Trump/Michelle Obama speech faux pas, I have to say First Lady Michelle Obama is truly an inspiration and it's no wonder why Melania Trump chose to draw from her speech. I mean seriously, our first lady is smart and beautiful and she's taken the role of a first lady to another level, a level that will be very hard to top. From the moment she stepped onto the scene, her presence has been felt. With her memorable Democratic Convention speech in 2008 to the many initiatives she has put in place today. Michelle Obama has without a doubt made her mark and will go down as one of the greatest first ladies in history. When I was growing up, with the exception of a select few, I didn't hear too much about past first ladies. Sure there was Nancy Reagan but she wasn't the one everyone talked about or admired. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is the first lady I grew up hearing about and she was long gone ...

Beware of the Dark

Small kids are usually afraid of the dark. Sometimes they are scared to enter a dark room or even scared to go to sleep in the dark. Darkness can be a little intimidating to both kids and adults if you allow it to be. While I'm not really afraid of the dark (at least not in familiar places lol!) I am afraid of the darkness that is in the air.. There seems to be a dark spirit looming around causing things to go terribly wrong. Anyone with a heart is mourning with the families in Newtown, Connecticut. What would possess someone to commit such a violent act? Some of God's youngest angels are gone, too soon. I won't even talk about all of the senseless murders that are taking place on the streets of various cities, including my own, Chicago. These young men are so trigger happy, no one values a precious life anymore. And then there's the Kansas City Chiefs football player who left his new baby girl in this world with no parents to care for her. Why? ...

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