In Bulletproof Diva, LisaJones brings the wit and candor of her infamousVillage Voice column, "Skin Trade,"to a much larger audience. Chock full of the"fierce black girl humor" that has made hercolumn so popular, this provocative collection ofessays and observations on race, sex, identity, andthe politics of style speaks to a young generationof blacks who were raised in an integrated societyand are now waiting for America to deliver on itspromises of equality. The thirty-seven shortpieces and six long essays in BulletproofDiva cover a wide range of topics, many of...

Writer Lisa Jones went to Wyoming for a four-day magazine assignment. She was committed to a long-term relationship, building a career, and searching for something she could not name.

At a dusty corral on the Wind River Indian Reservation, she met Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho who seemed to transform everything around him. He gentled horses rather than breaking them. It was said he could heal people of everything from cancer to bipolar disorder. He did all this from a wheelchair; he had been a quadriplegic for more than twenty years.

Intrigued, Lisa sat at Stanford's kitchen...

It's Christmas time for Baby Boo and the snow is falling outside. Join him as he makes a snowman, decorates the Christmas tree and looks out for Santa!