Daily News - Jenice Armstrong

Jenice Armstrong: Michelle's family tree is multi-hued - like so many others

FIRST LADY Michelle Obama's white cousins? Oh, my gosh! Can you believe it? Well, yeah. Just about every black American I know has white relatives. And I'd venture to say that many white Americans have black relatives, too, somewhere in their family tree.

Jenice Armstrong: Women talk about sex

IT WAS KIND of like being at a Tupperware party but instead of the focus being on plastic containers, the conversation centered on sex.

Jenice Armstrong: Michelle's dating tips

FIRST LADY Michelle Obama graces the cover of the December issue of Glamour. What's even more interesting is that in the accompanying article, she gives dating advice. Given that all the single women I know who are searching for their own version of Barack Obama, her advice is worth paying attention to.

This World Series can divide households

Can't we all just get along? Not if one of us is from Philly and the other's from New York, with the Phils and Yankees squaring off tonight. Jenice Armstrong talks about how her house has been divided, and Stu Bykofsky, a Philly institution who grew up in the Bronx, has practically become a house divided against itself. Do you have New York friends, or a Yankees fan at home?

Jenice Armstrong: Cell phone was lifeline

THE LAST thing Sheila Armstrong remembers about the attack was the sight of her lover hoisting a vacuum over her.

Jenice Armstrong: We hear from you on race and hair

AFRICAN-AMERICAN women aren't the only ones who obsess about their hair. After my Inquirer colleague Elizabeth Wellington and I weighed in last week on the topic of so-called good hair and the Chris Rock documentary of the same name, we heard back from women of all backgrounds about the challenges they have dealing with our hair and making peace with it as well. Here is a sampling:

Jenice Armstrong: Morehouse bans high heels, handbags... & jeans?

A MOREHOUSE MAN in a dress? Come again? When people think of a Morehouse man, the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., filmmaker Spike Lee and other luminaries come to mind.

Jenice Armstrong: Digging up Obama roots: First lady is Haddonfield genealogist's latest coup

WHEN YOU'RE a famous genealogist, it makes for great cocktail-party chatter once people find out what you do. The questions pour in, since practically everyone wants help uncovering their family's roots.

Jenice: 'Good Hair' a gray area for black women

WE WOMEN do some crazy things in the name of beauty. We're beauty junkies. But this column is about hair: About how we can have a full head of beautiful hair and yet spend hundreds to have more sewn, glued, clipped or weaved in.

Jenice Armstrong: For the sake of the children

Were the protesters at yesterday's demonstration at B. Bernice Young Elementary School really there because of 'the children'?