Smile wide and engaging, newly bobbed hair as luminescent as the organza-flowered, Swarovski crystal-dotted silk hanging to her right, Michelle Obama looked radiant presenting her Jason Wu inaugural gown to the Smithsonian's first ladies exhibition on Tuesday.

But as she took the podium before a...

One of my favorite childhood memories involves an early brush with fame. I was 4, gussied up in a red ruffled dress and cotton stockings, hair parted into severe pigtails on either side of my head. My mother clutched my shaking hand as my Sunday shoes clicked across the polished...

As mainstream coverage of black women goes, the last few weeks haven't exactly been a love fest.

First, National Public Radio featured a Los Angeles entrepreneur named Fleace Weaver, who dates men of all races and encourages other successful African-American women to do the same. Weaver says she's seen...

I've never liked ham. Perhaps it's because of the mass of bone lurking near the center or how the meat is the rosy hue of Pepto-Bismol even when fully cooked. All pink meat is pretty much the same to me, so when I learned about the croque-monsieur in grade school...

When it happened for the third time, I had just finished a quarter-mile swim at the local pool. My hairline was branded with the imprint of my swim cap, my bloodshot eyes looked like peppermints, and I was hunched next to the "Slow Lane" sign catching my breath with a...