As a first year, first semester doctoral student life has all of a sudden become very eye opening. I have gotten advice from those who decided to take this doctorate journey before me and each time I have heard the consistent message of: “It’s going to change you. The way you think, the way you […]
Author: Courtney BrieAnn
Encouraging Generational Shifts
Here’s what I know for sure: traveling down your twenties is a hell of a journey. but I also know this… the decade of twenty is the most acceptive of trial and error. I’m six-years into my second decade and DAMN… Every year is a completely new lesson. The person I was at 23 is […]
I say controversial because in the black community there’s this debate on rather or not, we should be spending the amounts of money that we do on gym shoes –not sneakers, even though they mean the same thing, the word sneaker has never truly been in our vocabulary. So here’s the true question: Is spending […]
(PART I) I grew up on 7 Mile and Outer Drive (Y’all have heard this from me before -I rep hard!); right on Detroit’s Westside. In the beginning, the neighborhood was occupied by retired school teachers, and government employees (like my mother) and for the most part… Life was good. However, as I entered into […]
So let me give you the real, this blogging hobby has been therapeutic, actually very therapeutic. The secret is this: As a youngin’, probably about 3rd and 4th grade I formed a liking for writing. This unique writing that would take me to worlds that only existed to me because I got to create them […]
Before diving into a topic that probably has the country at odds and a topic that is arguably sensitive for many reasons, let me first state: I am in no regard a Basketball expert, nor am I a historian of Basketball Legendaries. Granted, I have basic education on the obvious… Isiah Thomas, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael […]
For as long as I can remember, I have always had my hair straighten. In the summer months, every now and then I may have wet my ponytail, or do an untamed wash-and-go. But for the majority of my childhood, teenage years and most of my 20’s I have been naturally straight. I say “naturally […]
What do Taraji, Tracee and Rihanna have in common? They are utterly beautiful, talented, and professional in their respected fields. They also happen to be single! She’s a boss lady but where is Mr. Right? She probably starts her week off with a to-do list consisting of items that juggle her professional, personal and social […]
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Don’t let fear over-ride your faith.
Be Mentally Rich started off as a seed, a thought, an idea. Two years ago, while talking to my mother; I expressed to her my desire to be “mentally rich”. Money is cool, but for me Money is purposeless if MY LIFE didn’t have meaning, passion and a destiny. That was back in 2015 and […]
I wish I had this movie when I was a child! In two weekends of its debut, Black Panther has broken ticket box records; bringing in over $700 Million and still climbing. Besides the fact that this is a Marvel production and we know people across the world take Marvel creations seriously; I question what […]
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