DuEwaWorld News! by DuEwa Frazier

NEWS FLASH! Attention all single ladies, and women in relationships - He’s Gone…You’re Back by Kerika Fields is truth telling, inspirational guide for women on the path toward healing from unsatisfying, painful, and toxic relationships. Fields, a writer and photojournalist, reveals her personal experience with healing from break-ups. She advises women to release the habit of being a “Queen of Denial” in an unhealthy relationship. Instead, Fields asks women to turn inward and pamper themselves mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Fields tells women how to recognize when you have had enough in a bad relationship. She also advises women to seek support from friends and loved ones during a break up period. Fields recommends putting as much energy as you can into yourself, your goals and dreams once a relationship is over. He’s Gone…You’re Back also features an inspirational recommended play list of songs, natural foods recipes and a reading list.

When you reminisce over hip hop, where do your thoughts take you? Do you think about the night you went to the roller rink with your friends and you heard NWA's "Express Yourself" pumping loud from the DJ booth, inspiring you to dance to the 70's beats in the song? Or maybe you think about the times you chilled out at the park in your car, with your boyfriend or girlfriend when L.L. Cool J.'s "I Need Love" played on the radio? If you're like me, you may reminisce about your college days: the parties in the student union, the walks with your friends across the bridge to the nearby store, the sorority and fraternity step shows. All of these memories have hip hop wrapped around them. We lived, loved and laughed, riding on the beats of songs by old school and new school hip hop artists. Within the pages of The Message: 100 Life Lessons From Hip Hop's Greatest Songs , author Felicia Pride shares similar memories with us and invokes our hip hop laced ...