Rowland’s New EP ‘K’ Releases Today, Plus She’s Not Rushing the ‘Snap Back’ Body After Birth of Baby Noah — Kelly Rowland is celebrating her 40th birthday, a new baby, a new clothing line, and her new music release K, a soul-confirming, five-bop, melanin-popped dance-in-your-house-naked-during-Covid jaunt into fun and discernment. She is poised to talk about this record when her littlest co-worker decided he had something to say. Newborn Noah…

Her new book, ‘Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual,’ is a guide to embracing your greatness — Luvvie Ajayi Jones is proof of what happens when you pair 18 years of blogging and writing with tenacity and synchronicity. She went from working for the man to being the woman, with a 14,000-member app, her own social network, a popular TED Talk, and now what is sure to…

If only I had brought my wallet with me to the drive-thru — I vacillate on whether to apologize or stand my ground regarding what happened that day, a year ago. Yet what’s done is done and it is what it is. Here’s what happened. I drove to my local Dunkin’ Donuts, ordered a small coffee and a cinnamon raisin bagel. Toasted with…

The star of the Queen of Soul biopic has the perfect advice for women who lead. — For Jennifer Hudson, Respect is not just another movie where she stars as a famous person who sings. For this biopic, she embodies her idol, Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul. The film swings through Franklin’s Detroit church roots, her relationship with her father, and, of course, Franklin’s massive song…

My top takeaways from “Make Sleep Your Superpower” in advance of my Friday, Nov. 4 public interview with Medium author Robert Roy Britt — I’m reading an advance copy of Make Sleep Your Superpower, the latest book by esteemed science journalist Robert Roy Britt, who is also a top writer here on Medium. And this book, much like James Clear’s Atomic Habits, is chock full of good, actionable advice that is super easy to…