self-publishing on demand: June 2014

Coffee Makes You Black!

Final Call staffer Laila Muhammad pens new book!

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Bio: I am a Chicago based Writer, Videographer, and Final Call newspaper Production assistant. I am also a contributing writer for a number of online magazines and websites. I'm a 30 something mother of two, family person, and I believe women should have a platform to express themselves and not feel judged.

Article: Women Thou Art Loosed: Finding this article was the beginning of a transformation. It prompted me to read more of your articles and I cannot tell you the realization I had not only as a woman, but as a mom, sister, daughter and friend. Your articles changed my life. Patina Shand, Henderson, Nevada - USA

Check out some samples on her articles on her blog:

Who are you? The immeasurable, limitless value and beauty of a woman

Who are you? "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." ~E.E. Cummings, 1955 Have you ever heard women say they only have male [...]...»

Who will protect our girls?

Who will protect our girls? "In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free." ~Sara Niles (Torn From the Inside Out) She started to withdraw from the outside [...]...»

Catching fire and not being consumed by it

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." ~Martin Luther King, Jr. I took a group of teenage girls to see the second movie in the Hunger Games Trilogy, called "Catching Fire." Besides the [...]...»

You're pretty to be dark!

On a cold February day in Chicago, the wind is blowing lake effect snow towards the South Side of Chicago, frigid temperatures so cold, one can hardly bare to outside walk for more than a few minutes. Yet, somehow, sisters seem to find solace in each other's company. Gathered around a mahogany table, personalized coffee [...]...»

#teamdarkskin vs #teamlightskin....

"We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity." ~ Fred Hampton The battle for the minds of our people continues... Recently, I [...]...»