Table of Contents

Contents Dedication Invocation Introduction Codes of Conduct Your Spiritual Life We Are Family To Be Young The Dance of Dating Mirror, Mirror What You Say? Beyond Your Doorstep When You Travel Breaking Bread Gifting and Giving Thanks On the Job The Almighty Dollar Political Is Correct Postscript Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index The Creative Team

About the Author

Harriette Cole is the author of Jumping the Broom: The African-American Wedding Planner; the Jumping the Broom Wedding Workbook; How to Be: Contemporary Etiquette for African Americans; Coming Together: Celebrations for African American Families; and Choosing Truth: Living an Authentic Life. She is the owner of profundities, inc., a life-coaching and image development production company, where she has worked with stars such as platinum-selling recording artists Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, and Mary J. Blige. Cole writes a New York Daily News nationally syndicated advice column titled Sense & Sensitivity. She lives in Harlem in New York City with her family.

Reviews

Michael J. Rochon The Philadelphia Tribune Stunning...The essential combination of sound advice and an even sounder advice giver. Ebony An innovative primer...[It] goes beyond the basics to explain how and why these traditions exist in Black America.