Tag: Black history

• Does Anyone Else Get Triggered by Notifications?

  So, I’m currently on this social media break, right? Well, I’ve been trying out some of the fancy new features on the S21+, including Bixby Routines and Focus Mode, so I set a focus mode to specifically keep IG and Snapchat locked and had it running for the first few days of this month. All…

  Christine

  February 8, 2022

  Personal

  Black authors, Black books, Black history, Black Literature, blacktea, books, chai, chai tea, fiction, literature, Personal, reading, social media, social media break, writing

• New Desk, a Social Media Break, and a Month of Loving on Myself

  Hello February and Happy Black History Month! I posted on Instagram a few days ago, reminding myself that painted desks aren’t paint-proof. You see, I recently upgraded from a small glass desk (it was an office entryway table in a former life, and by “former life” I mean “at my old property management job”) to…

  Christine

  February 1, 2022

  Personal, Related Things

  Black authors, Black books, Black history, Black History Month, Black Literature, books, fiction, Personal, reading, social media break, writing

• Tananarive Due: The Black Rose

  The Black Rose is a story of Madam Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker, a hair culturist and one of the first Black female millionaire. In the simplest of summaries, Sarah Breedlove was the child of slaves, a washerwoman, a cook. She’d had problems with her hair most of her life. It was dry, itchy, and wouldn’t…

  Christine

  October 2, 2018

  Book Talk, Review

  Black history, books, fiction, Madam C.J. Walker, reading, Sarah Breedlove