black love
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Watch: I Love My Black Love
For Black History Month, The Root is celebrating blackness in a new The Root TV series called I Love My Blackness. In the series we celebrate black skin, black style, black friendship and black love. Our first video of the series celebrated our love of our black skin and the understanding that black is gold.…
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The Greatest Black Romances of All Time (and What We Can Learn From Them)
Valentine’s Day is almost here, which means you are sure to see endless articles, social media posts and greeting cards with trite quotes about love and romance and beautiful pictures of Caucasians. But what about black love? Why are there no stock photos of a brother lovingly greasing his woman’s scalp? I searched the greeting…
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5 Good Things About to Happen to Blackness in the Era of Trump
A segment of the American populace decided to elect a racist, xenophobic misogynist named Donald Trump to the presidency, and as a result, we as black folks are gonna have to mount up and fight his white supremacist policies for the next four years and beyond. But that being said, I’ve been thinking about some…
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Remy Ma & Papoose Are The Black Love I've Always Wanted But Never Knew I Needed
My earnest devotion to the Love & Hip Hop franchise is quite well documented. When it comes to the general thoughts that consume me any day of the week, it goes… 1. Ranking various chicken establishments by seasoning and breading 2. Praying that Serge Ibaka will finally respond to my DMs 3. Rabidly consuming the…
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On Believing In "Black Love" But Not Really Liking Black People
The idea of “Black Love” died a thousand internet deaths yesterday when news broke of the Amber Rose, Wiz Khalifa split. They appeared to be such a happy couple. He makes music for Black kids who smoke weed in Macy’s dressing rooms and the adults who smoked weed in Macy’s dressing rooms as kids, and she…