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Helena Andrews' BITNB Is a Tribute to Her Mother
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyI met one of my heroes in the pantheon of unshakable mamas Tuesday night at a publishing launch for the aptly titled memoir, "Bitch is the New Black," by WomanUP writer Helena Andrews. In our family, we have a joke that behind every successful daughter there usually stands a strong woman holding her purse. As the mother of a flourishing female offspring, I enjoy many public honors (mostly off stage and in some custodial role) savoring the incomparable pleasure that pride for my child provides. As with every newborn that starts life with an uncertain future (all of them), it wasn't always ...
My Reggie Love Date: Race Didn't Matter, and FishbowlDC Doesn't Get It
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyIn the June issue of Marie Claire magazine (on newsstands now) I write about a set-up courtesy of one Maureen Dowd -- yes, that Maureen Dowd. "I've got a guy for you. He's so hot, it's perfect." That guy just happened to be President Barack Obama's "body guy," or personal aide, Reggie Love (formerly of People Magazine's Hottest 25 Bachelors). It was the spring of '08 when MoDo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, "decided to take it upon herself to find me a man," I recount in Marie Claire. I was hesitant, of course. I mean how could the woman I'd helped with a computer ...
Of Bastards, Bitches and Black Women: My Mother Taught Me to Speak My Truth
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyMy mother, Frances Andrews, is the best kind of thief. Today, the woman admitted in print that after hounding me for the unedited manuscript for my forthcoming memoir, "Bitch is the New Black," she took matters into her own hands, hacked into my computer and e-mailed herself some of the chapters. She wanted to know what I was "putting out there," she said in a recent story in the Washington Post on me and my book. Reading those chapters, she continued, was like "walking down memory lane from my child's perspective." Fine, I forgive you. See, the lady likes to steal. Another thing she took ...
Woman Up Applauds Helena Andrews
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThough the Washington Post must have accidentally edited out that detail in today's feature story about her, Helena Andrews, the author of the hot new memoir, "Bitch is the New Black," is a valued member of our little coven of uppity women here on WomanUp. Helena is news because the talented young woman sold her as-yet-unpublished manuscript to Hollywood, where Shonda Rhimes, creator of TV's "Grey's Anatomy," plans to turn it into a huge hit. As women who support the success and accomplishments of our sisters, we are super proud (and a teensy bit jealous) of Helena and thrilled that she has ...
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