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Tune into BAP Living Radio on Talkshoe.com for programs about self-love, self-care, spirituality, health, finances, yoga, social media, creativity, art, music, culture, beauty, fashion, community service, careers, green living, and so much more.
Check out filmmaker and activist Stacey Muhammad’s new documentary Out of Our Right Minds – Trauma, Depression and the Black Woman. Visit www.wildseedstudios.com. Please support Muhammad's film with a financial donation!
Healthy You Now (www.healthyyounow.com) is a new bi-monthly online health magazine that launches on December 8. Its mission is to:
•promote information on good eating habits,
•change the conversation from weight to health & healthy choices, and
•challenge each individual to make adjustments to their overall lifestyle.
Tonya Lewis Lee is serving as Editor-in-Chief. Lee is a lawyer, writer, mother, wife, and lead spokesperson for The Office of Minority Health’s “A Healthy Baby Begins With You” campaign (http://www.tonyalewislee.com/tll_involvements.html). Lee penned a best-selling novel Gotham Diaries. She also co-authored the children’s book Please Baby Please with her husband Spike Lee. Visit www.tonyalewislee.com for more information.
The Red Pump Project is a national initiative that ensures women are empowered with knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the issues surrounding it. To date, there are 30 ambassadors in 20 states "Rocking the Red Pump" to raise awareness about the impact of HIV/AIDS on women & girls.
Check out Cut It Out! Apparel, a Brooklyn, NY-based female clothing line that designs to empower women.
BAP Living Member Sharmey Holloman is an amazing creative sistalove who co-owns Controversitees, a company that makes customized t-shirts with a unique message that all BAPs can appreciate. Please support Sharmey!
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Tune into BAP Living Radio's July 11th show at 7pm EST for a conversation about summer yoga and Reiki healing touch tips with BAP Living Radio's Yoga and Reiki Correspondent Inez Powell. Click on the link to listen to the show: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/18598. Inez is a yoga teacher, Reiki Master practitioner, massage therapist, and motivational trainer. She owns Blissful… Continue
Tune into BAP Living Radio's July 11th show at 7pm EST for a conversation about summer yoga and Reiki healing touch tips with BAP Living Radio's Yoga and Reiki Correspondent Inez Powell. Click on the link to listen to the show: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/18598. Inez is a yoga teacher, Reiki Master practitioner, massage therapist, and motivational trainer. She owns Blissful… Continue
As a reminder, BAP Living's social networking site is moving slowly to a new site by July 19.
Please click here and join the new site: http://bapliving.spruz.com/. The current site located on Ning.com (http://baplivingforbapsandebw.ning.com/) will shut down on July 20.
Check out a new web tv show called Kindred. It tells the story of three twenty-something African-American women who navigate family, work and love against the gritty skyline of New York City. Kindred was written and produced by SistaPAC Productions and directed by acclaimed director, Hezues R' - Eye On It.
Margaux Delotte-Bennett is an amazing creative woman, writer, and performer. She wrote and performed "Black and Kinky Amongst Brown Waves," a poetic journey that takes you back to her year of adventure in India. She explores issues of race, gender, culture, and connection as a Black woman in India.
Happily Ever After is an amazing documentary about the positive images of Black hetersexual marriages by Ronnie and Lamar Tyler, founders of Black and Married with Kids blog. It is available on Amazon.com.
BAP Living members in DC/MD/VA support the re-opening of Sisterspace and Books, 3717 Georgia Avenue N.W., WDC (202-829-0306).
BAP Living ladies get ready for Sade's Soldier of Love CD that drops in February 2010.
BAP Living bloggers should check out the b-link created by the Mama Law Media Group, founders of Blogalicious. The b-link was created to serve as a PR Matchmaker ... a bridge between women bloggers of color and the brands that want to reach them. Join the group. It can help you move your blog to a higher level!
Tanekeya Word is the "Duchess of Pop Art" and the kind of artist all BAPs will love.
The Saartjie Project is a powerful group of creative women who make up a multidisciplinary ensemble theater company that explores the intersections of race, gender & power through black women's voices and bodies. All BAPs should know about TSP!
Whimsicard's invitations. gifts, party planning tips, and advice of interest to people of color.
Kudos to the Mama Law Media Group for hosting Blogalicious, the first annual conference for women bloggers of color on October 9-11, 2009, in Atlanta, GA. Click here to read an article about the conference. Get ready for Blogalicious 2010 in Miami!
Sun Kissed Mommy is an online community for women/mothers of color that offers beauty, fashion, style, health, travel and parenting content that reflects the unique needs of its community.
FlavorDiva.com inspires African-American ladies to reclaim their culinary talent and skills held by previous generations of Black women, and promotes well-being through food.
Cocoa OM Online blog by Shawna Renee Madison offers fabulous yoga wisdom for BAPs.
Faith Hunter Yoga's free podcasts can help BAPs practice yoga in their own homes.
kg yoga life practices on MomTV and Stickam.com are great online kind and gentle yoga classes for computer users.
Stay in the know about social media and technoclogy by reading the following sista blogs and columns:
Gloria Ware's Black and Into Green blog is one of the best resources of living green as African Americans.
Prissy Mommy Chronicles is a blog by Yakini, an African American mom, wife, and psychologist who shares her experiences with balancing the baby, household, and career, while also maintaining her identity as self-proclaimed "priss-pot."
Explore these women-centered groups, web sites, and social networking sites for resources and information:
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