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Secret Santa 2.0

Some families and co-workers prefer to host Secret Santa exchanges, where you pick a name out of a hat and buy a present for that person. But, say you have like 20 relatives, or 50 co-workers. That’s a lot of paper in one hat. Not to mention it’s time-consuming to write out all of those [...]

18Nov2007 | Kimberly | 0 comments | Continued
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New Use for an Everyday Item…

I think it’s pretty cool when we can figure out ways to be resourceful and not spend more money on household items. For example, Real Simple gave me this great idea for the many loose pictures I have just laying around. Why buy more photo frames when I could neatly display them with unused binder [...]

11Nov2007 | Kimberly | 1 comment | Continued
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12 years later

Today is the 12th anniversary of the Million Man March, a “day of atonement” for black men across the nation that took place on the Washington Mall. Since then, Oct. 16 has been known as the Holy Day of Atonement. Minister Louis Farrakhan will speak about it today at the Atlanta Civic Center. Read about [...]

16Oct2007 | Eugene | 2 comments | Continued
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Are You Boxing Yourself In?

I graduated from a predominantly white university, but many of my fellow black classmates and I often joked about having a very “black” college experience.
Many of us were exclusively involved in black student organizations and black Greek life; lived in the “black” residence halls; took lots of the African American Studies and African Studies classes; [...]

25May2007 | Eugene | 1 comment | Continued
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What IS a YBP community?

In “It’s not so bad after all” a 22-year-old teacher from Phoenix had this to say about the benefits of being a young black professional in a place where there aren’t many young black professionals:
“You’re not bound by the title ‘young black professional’ and all the expectations that come with it like you would be [...]

11May2007 | Eugene | 7 comments | Continued
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Business Plan Headquarters

Listen up all you YBP Entrepreneurs. If you’re trying to get your business off the ground but aren’t sure where to start, check out PlanHQ- a website that walks you through the process of designing a business plan. Business planning with PlanHQ is sort of a paint-by-numbers process, which makes it an especially useful resource [...]

2May2007 | Kimberly | 3 comments | Continued
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Your house should not be one giant junk drawer

I give this advice from the perspective of someone currently cleaning out their house. For the past week my time has been occupied sorting out 13 years of crap in order to make a comfortable living space for my future husband and I. Throwing things away can be hard if you are the sentimental type, [...]

30Apr2007 | Kimberly | 5 comments | Continued
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to be, or not to be greek.

i came to work this morning and was encouraged by a story i found in the online version of the arizona star. despite being in the minority, a group of young black men were honored by another group of black men effectively instilling a sense of hope and community among all who attended. the honors [...]

16Apr2007 | Fredric | 3 comments | Continued
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How to avoid too much information

How many personal calendars, desktop to-do lists, and planners do you have? I’m all for organization, and use many methods of keeping track of important dates and events. But do we really need to know all of this info right now? Tracking too much information can waste our time and reduce our productivity. Consistently getting [...]

24Mar2007 | Kimberly | 1 comment | Continued
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