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We Encourage Women Wednesday: Modesty

Hey Ladies!!!! We are BACK!!!! It is Wednesday so yall already know what that means!!! We are at the forefront of the focus today!! I know we are some busy women and I just want to drop something on you to encourage you real quick

1 Timothy 2:9 (AMP)

Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves modestly and appropriately and discreetly in proper clothing, not with elaborately braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive clothes.

So I love the way that the amplified bible breaks down what this scri

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Despite a pledge to usher in a new era of diversity and inclusion, social media giant Twitter employs just 49 Black people out of a U.S. workforce of 2,910, The Guardian reports.

That comes out to 1.7 percent of Twitter’s U.S. staff, the site notes. And the slim numbers seem even more bleak when contrasted with the user makeup of the site. According to data from the Pew Research Center gathered by The Guardian, only 21 percent of White people use Twitter. That’s compared to the 27 percent o

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California-based Flipboard was launched in 2010 and the company has raised more than $160 million with backing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures, Insight Venture Partners and Rizvi Traverse Management.

Integration of Twitter and Flipboard apps as a result of an acquisition could help Flipboard take advantage of advertisements from some major brands. Flipboard could become larger by expanding to Twitter’s entire user base.

In January, Flipboard advanced its monetization st

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Have you ever seen an annoying tweet in your feed and wished there was a way to shut that person up without having to take the drastic measure of completely unfollowing them? Now there’s a way!

Twitter on Monday announced it is rolling out an oft-requested “mute” option for the Web and for its iOS and Android mobile apps. The new feature will be making its way to all Twitter users over the coming weeks.

“In the same way you can turn on device notifications so you never miss a Tweet from your

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The Big Deal About #BlackTwitter

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Scandal,” George Zimmerman‘s murder verdict, smartest (black) women on Twitter, fast-tailed girls and now the Michael Dunn murder trial all have one thing in common — they were powerful trends of Black Twitter that garnered mainstream attention!

Black Twitter has been the driving viral force behind some of the greatest social media triumphs and struggles for the black community in the areas that are social justice, politics, diversity, media and entertainment.

In the AP photo above, Black Tw

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