Auntie Unfiltered
Auntie Unfiltered
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Please Stop Attacking 'Gorilla Glue Girl' Tessica Brown
Black women are not often afforded a lot of grace. We are the subject of scorn in our everyday lives as we go about being everyday people. Given a platform, we are subjected to abuse, ridicule, and harassment when people know our names and our faces. Fame is infamously overrated. So what happens when you…
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Auntie Unfiltered Pictures the Possibilities With Danielle Young
Losing your job is not the end of the world, nor should it be. As devastating as it can be at times, especially during a pandemic, it can also be the push we need to finally get that personal project off the ground. It can be the sign that we need to finally work on…
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Auntie Unfiltered: Worry About Yourself
Hey nieces and nephews! Can you believe we are already one month into 2021? The time is flying by, but not much has changed from last year. There are still people in this world who believe that everyone has to think the same way that they do, behave the same way that they do and…
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Auntie Unfiltered: Put Your Best Face Forward in 2021
Hey nieces and nephews, I have a confession: I am still feeling a little apprehensive about our prospects for getting out of the house this year. 2020 ended on a low note as far as our country and the pandemic are concerned. None of us could have imagined that 10 months into quarantine, the U.S.…
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Auntie Unfiltered Explores the Power of Music
Ever since I can remember, from a very young age, I have known all the lyrics to every single song on Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On album in the order that they appear on the LP. Both sides. That album came out the year I was born, and my mother says she played it during…
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Auntie Unfiltered Spreads Black Girl Magic With CaShawn Thompson
Dear Black women and girls: You are magic. There is magic in everything you do, from the way you can create a week’s worth of meals from a pound of spaghetti, two pounds of ground beef and three cans of tomato sauce to the way you slayed those baby hairs this morning. It’s the way…
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'A Goal Is a Dream With a Deadline': Auntie Unfiltered on Manifesting in the New Year
Happy new year, nieces and nephews! It’s funny, because we woke up on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021 with things looking much like they had when we went to bed on Dec. 31, 2020. We are still in the middle of a pandemic. We are still under quarantine. There is still a maniac in the Oval…
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Auntie Unfiltered Catches Up With the Legendary MC Lyte
Hey nieces and nephews! Have I got a treat for you this week. How many of you are fans of hip-hop? I mean real fans, like you know the history and who came when and that type of stuff? I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Ms. Lana Michelle Moorer, known the world…
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Auntie Unfiltered Talks Holiday Cheer With Niecy Nash
Hey nieces and nephews! Can you believe we are just two weeks away from Christmas? Three weeks away from the new year? What the hell is time and what the fuck is happening here? The year 2020 has been on one, literally and figuratively, and we have been coasting along with it, trying not to…