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Happy Black Girl Day! A Year of Happy Black Girlness and Prototypical Black Women

March 9, 2011 by Brooke Obie 3 comments

Meeting these awesome women has made me a Happy Black Girl! On March 10, 2010, I introduced “The Prototype” series in celebration of Jamilah Lemieux’s once-a-month holiday, “Happy Black Girl Day!” The purpose of the series is to bring to my readers and women around the world a prototypical Black

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Happy Black Girl Day! The Prototype: Jamilah Lemieux (Sister Toldja)

December 8, 2010 by Brooke Obie 9 comments

In early 2010, I introduced many of you to “Happy Black Girl Day!”, a holiday created by Brooklyn diva extraordinaire and fellow blogger Sister Toldja. This once-a-month holiday allows us to take a break from the constant media assault on Black women and to celebrate the sisterhood with showers of

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