In the land of swipe right and double taps, it has become incredibly easy for us to show our interest in everything the world has to offer from the touch of our fingertips. Remember the days when you couldn’t even use your cell phone until after 7pm because of an old school technique called “minutes?" Or when you had to call your boo’s house phone and put on your most polite voice so his/her mother would give them the phone? Sheesh, that feels like a life time ago when it’s o

[Image: Queen by Frank Morrison] We've all heard or have seen the hashtag #BlackGirMagic on social media under a bomb selfie or under a picture of a black girl's latest accomplishment. Hell, I've even used the hashtag especially on Tumblr where every first Friday of the month we, as in black people, celebrate #Blackout (a holiday made to put our beauty on notice, something that mainstream America tends to forget.) So what exactly is 'black girl magic' you ask. Lindsey E. at

I’m someone who strongly believes in self expression whether it be writing, dancing, singing, painting, creating etc. Some of my favorite ways of expressing myself have been dancing and writing. (Singing also but only when I'm alone or in a group lol you'll never catch me doing a solo.) I have piles of journals that I’ve written in over the years since I was a youngin' writing on Lisa Frank stationary with milky gel pens. These pages contain anything from stories to poems, fr

Today marks eight year since Twitter invaded our lives. Today, 8 billion tweets go out each day! WHOA. I decided to share my first very tweet with you all. It's a very typical tweet and of course it was after midnight because I was a 19-year-old college student, home on summer vacation for the first time probably bored out of mind. Twitter has changed dramatically since then I sure do miss the old twitter. Actually, my original account got hacked into recently (which might've