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…

Is your to-do list the equivalent of an endless scroll? Contemplating the systems behind that question is at the heart of a Medium post about the difference between looking busy and being productive. Writer Anangsha Alammyan delves into this provocative debate as we enter the last few weeks of the…

When was the last time you researched your family? I don’t mean just remembering Granny’s stories, but actually digging into the attic, the library, and the census to see if you can find records of what she spoke? I did the research back when my grandpa told me he worked…

Try this unconventional productivity hack — Everyone’s read about the billionaire who starts his day at 4 a.m., has a perfect breakfast followed by a perfect workout, and then the perfect wardrobe change before being driven to work via a paid-for executive car service. (And if he has kids, someone else does the feeding, wardrobing, lunch-box…

Take a look at ‘third-party thinking’ — It’s the time of year when everyone has advice for you: on planning the rest of your year, buying Christmas presents for kiddies, and visualizing your best self. But author Anthony Robert suggests zooming out to go within. “It’s called third-party thinking. Here’s how to use it,” Robert writes. “View…

Hustle culture gets the job done, but there are other options — Perhaps you’ve seen the meme that says Beyoncé has the same 24 hours in her day that you do — so if you want to be successful, why aren’t you hustling more? Perhaps you’ve also heard of the various movements which encourage workers to relax, sleep and, in some viral…