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Does 'down low' culture make black women homophobic?
The Grio
The good ones know they the sh*t so they got 10 women at a time, leaving babies all over the place.? That sounds like the transcription from one of those Black Women Will All Die Single and Sad television specials that were all the rage a year or two ...



Village women take on sectarian strife in 'Go'
Boston Herald
At Kendall Square Cinema: B Taking a cue perhaps from Sarajevo-born filmmaker Emir Kusturica (?Black Cat, White Cat?), Lebanese director/co-writer Nadine Labaki adapts the conventions of the theater of the absurd to a film about the plight of wives and ...

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Charlotte-based Women Executives gives students their wings
Charlotte Observer
By Celeste Smith Four of the five female college graduates, from left, Fridonna Shepard-Steele, Demetria Black, Amy Doughton and Cherish Norman. Women Executives, a professional women's networking group, honored female college students age 25 and older ...



April Jobs Report -- Black Women and Single Mothers Still Lagging
Forbes
?Single mothers and black females continue to struggle with employment at an alarming level,? says Dr. Cassi Fields, president and CEO of Fields Consulting. The unemployment rate for black women fell from 12.3% in March to 10.8% in April, ...



Offering an assist with shelter and school
Philadelphia Inquirer
Most of the participants are single women with children, Allen said; 96 percent are African American, with 60 percent to 80 percent homeless because of domestic abuse. Some participants had been economically stable previously but lost their jobs, ...

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Six Female Showrunners Talk Ratings, Their Comedy Icons, and Internet Hate
Vulture
Herewith, some outtakes from those interviews, in which these women talk about their comedy icons, whether ratings matter, and getting flack on the Internet. Overnight ratings seem to be increasingly out-of-date with measuring how people watch TV, ...



Movie critics on new releases other than 'Men in Black 3'
Boston.com (blog)
Globe critic Ty Burr compares the film to "Lysistrata," writing, "Where the Athenian playwright came up with a single novel response (no sex for anyone until the boys behave), director-co-writer-actress Nadine Labaki has her cast of village women throw ...



Jack White helps Black Belles find complementary colors
Chicago Tribune
While the carefully crafted shroud of secrecy has yet to crack and even the Belles' black-rimmed lips are sealed, the gimmick has led to questions of whether White maintains a Svengali-like control over his female-strong roster or is just an expert at ...

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Adviser criticises council over black female members
Your Local Guardian
A senior adviser to Operation Trident has criticised Wandsworth Council for not having a single female black councillor. Ms Webbe, an Islington councillor who works alongside police to advise on gun crime in the capital, spoke at a single parents ...

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Separate trials sought in Black Hawk County bike trail assaults
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
WATERLOO, Iowa ? The attorney for the man accused of attacking two women joggers on local trails said his client should have separate trials. Blake Andrew Houser, 20, of Waterloo, is charged with assault, willful injury and carrying weapons and going ...