The HAA Girl Who Knows Clothes Post: The Evolution of Activewear

The days of wearing old jogging pants and an oversized sweater you borrowed from your boyfriend or older brother is now long and gone. Active wear has definitely been reinvented and now going to the gym or going to the grocery store has become a fashion show. Many designers like Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs and [...]

You’re Doin’ It Wrong: People Making It Hard For Black Folks In 2009

After January 20, it seemed as though the Black community was prepared to take the rest of 2009 as a collective victory lap with the T Tops off the 1984 Buick Grand National as an opening salvo to our resurgence as a people.  But all that hope and optimism just hasn’t been fully realized.  Unfortunately, [...]

African American Men Struggling To Finish College

They’re no longer the only option for African-American students, but the country’s historically black colleges and universities brag that they provide a supportive environment where these students are more likely to succeed.

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HAA Featured Event- Chicago: Supa Soul Concert Series ft. Omar

enFULLAffect Marketing and Swank Society presents, Omar at the Double Door on Sunday April 5.
If you claim to be Bourgie and have your bona fides as a legitimate music snob, Omar should need no introduction.  For the others who are trying to catch up, if you’re a fan of Neo-Soul and are looking to expand [...]

Not That We’re Advocating This: The Walk Of Shame Kit

It is the act of going home the next morning and being embarrassed in your clothes from the night before. There is no longer a need to be embarrassed by doing the “walk of shame”, all of your problems are solved with the Walk of Shame™ Kit. It’s everything you’ll need to walk home with your head held high.

IGN & EA Sports Team Up For Black College Experience Football

March 11, 2009 - Aspyr Media announced that it will be teaming with a privately held, African-American owned company called Nerjyzed to co-publish the upcoming Black College Football Experience — Doug Williams Edition (BCFx). The game’s aim is to immerse players in the culture, history and pageantry that comes along with a traditional college football gameday at Historically Black College and University (HBCU) campuses. The game includes standard football action, halftime shows, and drum line competition; all powered by the Unreal Engine 3.0. BCFx will launch on Xbox 360 and PC this spring.

HAA Etiquette Pt. 1: Don’t Be That Guy/That Girl

Bourgies, we need to huddle up for a sec and talk about a few things that are getting to be out of bounds within and without our community.  There’s a real scourge and rising tide, a black tide (not like Black like the people, but black like bad, and bad meaning bad, not bad meaning [...]

How Professional Athletes Wind Up Broke

What the hell happened here? Seven floors above the iced-over Dallas North Tollway, Raghib (Rocket) Ismail is revisiting the question. It’s December, and Ismail is sitting in the boardroom of Chapwood Investments, a wealth management firm, his white Notre Dame snow hat pulled down to his furrowed brow.

In 1991 Ismail, a junior wide receiver for the Fighting Irish, was the presumptive No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. Instead he signed with the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts for a guaranteed $18.2 million over four years, then the richest contract in football history. But today, at a private session on financial planning attended by eight other current or onetime pro athletes, Ismail, 39, indulges in a luxury he didn’t enjoy as a young VIP: hindsight.

Historian and Scholar John Hope Franklin Dies

John Hope Franklin, a towering scholar and pioneer of African-American studies who wrote the seminal text on the black experience in the U.S. and worked on the landmark Supreme Court case that outlawed public school segregation, died Wednesday. He was 94.