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The LXD

If you haven’t heard of The LXD, I’m happy to introduce you. They’ve made it to the Oscars, TED, and So You Think You Can Dance. Jim Chu is the creator of this online dance adventure – an epic story told through media of film and dance.  You can view episodes on Hulu.  Peep the [...]

July 17th, 2010

Los Angeles! Freedom Friday Number Four

If you haven’t been to Freedom Friday yet, you need to come out and start your weekend off proper.  Since we started at the end of May, we’ve had poets, musicians, rappers and filmmakers share their hearts and passions with us on the mic.  USC’s South Los Angeles Report even came out and wrote a [...]

June 30th, 2010

Resting in Power: Octavia Butler and her Kindred Spirits

“I’m a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I’m also comfortably asocial — a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles — a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, [...]

June 22nd, 2010

Natural Hair Day Round 2: The Natural Hair Network

Here’s another way to win stickers today!  Just add your natural hair site to the Afrolicious Network! It’s a quick, 3-step process: register, log in, add your site.  Add as many as you want!  The user who adds the 25th, 50th and 100th sites to the network will get a pack of stickers. Tell everyone!

June 1st, 2010

Natural Hair Day Round 1

First there was the #naturalhair chat and now there’s June 1st, 2010: Natural Hair Day! I couldn’t let this one pass without some fun! Throughout the day I’ll be giving away Afrolicious stickers to everyone who’s participating. There will be three rounds: three chances to get in on the goodies and you don’t have to [...]

June 1st, 2010

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