For all of you out there who share the belief that reading is fundamental and sexy, Shelfari is at our rescue.

I don’t know about you guys, but I can’t stand gift shopping. I never know what to buy anyone and usually end up buying things for myself. If you share my woes, Etsy is here to help.

If HeidiRoland’s earrings could speak, they would say, “I’m fly. I’m bold. I know it and so should you.”

With summer right around the corner, I’m sure many of you are planning some trips. So, because I hella heart you, I wanted to share my resources for cheap flights and some tips on how not to go broke on a plane ticket.

What if you could carry around 200 books, which, collectively, weighed a mere 10.3 ounces? Meet Amazon’s new toy, Kindle.

Six years ago, Tywana Smith was simply looking for a place in suburban Cincinnati to purchase products to use on her children’s hair.

A long way from her turban rocking incense, burning days; Ms. Badu has evolved. The Erykah we met on 1997’s Baduizm was regal, reserved and mysterious and although all that is still part of who she is, ’08’s Erykah has come into her own.

“Favela Rising” documents the horror and sorrow of life in the Brazilian slums. Run by teenage drug lords, neglected and dismissed by the government and media the favela’s are war zones.

“[The Diaspora] is really the springboard of our designs…When you know who you really are, and it’s there unpologetically, it comes across in everything you do.”

What is the What is NOT a beach book. It is engrossing and horrifying; but somehow, food for the soul. It’s a human story.