By definition, an “icon” is usually a symbol or an image that stands for or represents something other than itself. As an artist, SHA'CONDRIA "iCON" SIBLEY has made a choice to represent the loving-kindness, creativity, and power of God through her gifts and talents.

iCon is a nationally-acclaimed championship poet/spoken word artist/actress/teaching artist. As a founding member Team SNO (Slam New Orleans), she has helped to lead the team where few other slam teams have gone before, winning multiple regional and national titles, solidifying the team as a “dynasty” in the world of slam poetry.

A lover of the stage, iCon has also been featured in several stage productions such as the musical, ‘Badu-izms’, a production of Eve Ensler’s ‘A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer’, ‘Housewarming’, and ‘Waiting to Be Invited’. She was featured in the EngageNOLA/Humid Being’s “If I Were Mayor” web commercial for the 2010 New Orleans mayoral race. She was a featured poet on the 3rd season of TV One's NAACP award-winning national hit TV show, ‘Verses and Flow’ engineered by Lexus, which aired in October 2013.

In celebration of her love of the visual arts and jewelry, she and fellow artist Asia Rainey launched a line of highly sought after hand-painted, hand-crafted earrings called Dada Designs. Along with Rainey, iCon also filmed the video, ‘Ten Paces’ (2010), which served as the soundtrack to The Red Hand Campaign, started by the two in honor of slain toddler Jeremy Galmon to hold community members responsible for speaking up against violence. The pair also co-founded the Write!NOLA Festival (2012-13) to reunite and revitalize the New Orleans (residential and displaced) poetry community.

In 2014, iCon partnered with the Alexandria Museum of Art in her hometown to become the host and organizer of the ‘Rhythm & Rhymes Spoken Word Performing Arts Series’, a quarterly showcase at the museum which has gained statewide popularity.

Her work has been featured on many national and international outlets such as Upworthy, Huffington Post, For Harriet, Fusion, Marie Claire, and BET.com, especially after her poem “To All the Little Black Girls With Big Names” went viral. As a result, she also founded The Little Girls Big Names Project, which aims to encourage women and girls with unique names as well as combat name discrimination and stigma surrounding unorthodox names. Over the years, she has shared stages with the likes of Sunni Patterson, Taalam Acey, Abiodun Oyewole (The Last Poets), jessica care moore, Amanda Diva, The Tony Rich Project, and Dead Prez. She can be found all over the country performing on numerous stages and teaching workshops from colleges and universities, churches, schools, community centers, and detention centers to corner cyphers and living rooms. In addition to her many accomplishments, iCon also works teaching poetry to inmates at a federal correctional facility. Focused on not falling for anything, iCon stands for something. And that something is art. That something is God. That something is Love.

Raising the Kid You Love with the Ex You Hate draws on Dr. Edward Farber's thirty plus years of experience as a clinical psychologist working with families in transition to minimize the negative impacts of separation and divorce on their children. It demonstrates how you can parent effectively despite the acrimony divorce leaves behind.​

A nude bra and skin tone hosiery are the basics of every woman’s wardrobe, at least in theory. For many women of colour, finding suitable skin-tone hosiery and lingerie has not been an option. Frustrated by the lack of skin-tone choices to go with her ever-expanding wardrobe, Nubian Skin founder, Ade Hassan, decided it was time for ‘a different kind of nude’.

Inspired by trail blazing women, Eunice W. Johnson and super model Iman, who created Fashion Fair and Iman cosmetics, Ade took the leap and created Nubian Skin. It’s been an uphill battle, but every revolution starts somewhere.

Nubian Skin launched with a carefully edited collection of lingerie and hosiery to provide the essential underwear needs of women of colour. Headquartered in London, Nubian Skin delivers worldwide and looks forward to growing the company’s offering and expanding its reach.

Do you know your History?

Boston Police Commissioner William Evans by Tayla Andre

NACA is the best purchase program in America. NACA provides both comprehensive housing counseling and access to an incredible mortgage product. While NACA provides everyone with mortgage options, NACA also provides one extraordinary mortgage product with everyone receiving the same incredible terms and below market interest rate. NACA has over $13 Billion committed from some the country’s largest lenders on the following terms:

No down payment

No closing costs

No points

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Evaluation based on individual circumstances without consideration of the credit score

Below market 30 year fixed rate mortgage at 3.625% (as of 4/7/2017).

NACA makes affordable homeownership a real option for working people many of whom have neither perfect credit nor substantial savings. While the NACA mission is to provide affordable homeownership to primary low- to moderate-income people and those purchasing low and income communities, the program is open to everyone. There is no eligibility limitation based on one’s income, credit score or other criteria as long as the following four eligibility are criteria are met.

Properties must be located in areas where NACA provides services which are large areas nationwide including many states.

The purchase price must be less than the maximum purchase price which is sufficiently high for low and moderate income buyers and those looking to purchase affordable properties.

Homebuyer must not own another property when they close on the NACA mortgage.

Homebuyers need to participate in whatever way they feel comfortable and to adhere to NACA's policies and procedures.

modernize the content and presentation of academic material. We create educational products, such as films, books, and unit plans, for elementary and middle school children in various academic areas. Our products are innovative, engaging and filled with scholastic material not present in a traditional curricula. ​

What makes our company extraordinary is that children are the major creative forces behind our products. Children, between the ages of 9 and 16, work alongside our team of highly experienced educators, animators, cartoonists, and engineers. They are involved in character designing, background designing, storyboarding, scripting, and voiceovers.

Our aim is to make learning enjoyable and to foster the three S’s: Self-awareness, Self-esteem, and Solidarity. ​We hope that our products aid in shaping the minds, attitudes, and behavior of the youth for the sole purpose of building stronger and healthier communities.

Family Court Law by Tayla Andre

James Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian Institute surveying twelve leading high school textbooks of American History. What he found was an embarrassing amalgam of bland optimism, blind patriotism, and misinformation pure and simple, weighing in at an average of four-and-a-half pounds and 888 pages.

In response, he has written Lies My Teacher Told Me, in part a telling critique of existing books but, more importantly, a wonderful retelling of American history as it should - and could - be taught to American students. Beginning with pre-Columbian American history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre, Loewen supplies the conflict, suspense, unresolved drama, and connection with current-day issues so appallingly missing from textbook accounts.

A treat to read and a serious critique of American education, Lies My Teacher Told Me is for anyone who has ever fallen asleep in history class.

Pros of Sex... Practice safe sex and know who you're giving yourself to.

1 . Having sex relieves headaches. Every time you make love , it releases the tension in the veins of the brain.

2 . A lot of sex can clear the stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine . It helps to fight against asthma and spring allergies .

3 . Making love is a spectacular beauty treatment. Scientists have discovered that when a woman has sex , it produces a large amount of estrogen that gives shine and softness to hair.

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6 . Lovemaking can burn all the calories you have accumulated during the romantic dinner before bedtime.

7 . Sex is a divine remedy for depression. It releases endorphins into the bloodstream , creating a state of euphoria and leaving women and men with the feeling of being unique.

8 . Sex is the tranquilizer and muscle relaxant to a safer world . It is a thousand times more effective than Valium .

9 . Sexually active body releases more pheromones. .

10 . Kissing each day will keep you more time away from the dentist . Kissing is an art which makes the cleaner teeth and saliva reduces the amount of acid that causes tooth decay .