black love
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Better Together: This Valentine's Day, Choose Gifts That Let You Share the Love
The moment I saw the afro pick, I knew it was love. Black love. During my childhood in Chicago, it was impossible to ignore hometown haircare brand Johnson Products’ hero product, Afro Sheen, which was ubiquitous in black households across America from the ‘60s through the ‘80s. And while its popularity may have waned in…
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Cherish The Day: Ava DuVernay, Xosha Roquemore and Alano Miller Discuss the Day that Changed Their Lives
In her hit song, “Cherish the Day,” Sade croons about “deep love” and how she won’t be caught “running” from it. Easier said (or sung) than done, right? Cue OWN’s upcoming love anthology, aptly titled, Cherish the Day. Late last year, a group of journalists were invited to the lovely ARRAY Creative Campus in Los…
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Netflix Is Playing for Our Hearts With Love & Basketball and More Blackness in December 2019
It’s the last month of the year and what better way to peace-out the year 2019 than with some black ass content? Double or nothin’, Netflix is adding Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Love & Basketball. The film’s stars, Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps joined in on the excitement by announcing via video. Both expressed how significant it…
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The Cast and Crew of Queen & Slim on Black Love Being 'An Act of Resistance, Protest and Resilience'
Beyond the political allegory of two black people going on the run after killing a cop, Queen & Slim is a love story. Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) have bounties on their heads for the crime they’ve committed and throughout all of their trials and tribulations, they find a special sense of connection…
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#RelationshipGoals: Codie and Tommy Oliver Discuss Black Love in an 'Instagram Society'
Whenever I visit my mama in Chicago, we partake in our recent habit of watching marathons of Black Love, a docuseries on OWN. From Tina Knowles Lawson’s sassy quips with Richard Lawson to Sterling K. Brown and Ryan Michelle Bathe’s love origin story, the laughs never stop. Behind the relationship tea are real-life examples of black…
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'It's Getting Better All the Time': If We Can't Have Love Like Barack and Michelle Obama After 27 Years, We Don't Want It
Soul mates. Twin flames. #CouplesGoals. All of these phrases have been used to describe the most idyllic relationships, and could be used to describe Barack and Michelle Obama, who once again flagrantly waved their seemingly perfect marriage in our faces as they celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary on Thursday. Of course, we know no one’s…
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Mannie Fresh Declares 'Back That Azz Up' the Greatest Love Song of All Time
Picture it…Sicily. Or any place that has a nightclub, actually. You’ve just walked to the bathroom after the DJ decides to play a bathroom break-worthy song. Whilst (hopefully) dousing your hands with water and soap after you’ve handled your business, you hear the beautiful violin strings of success start to harmonize in the background. Is…
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I Am Probably the Worst Person to Write a Review of the New Movie Always a Bridesmaid, but I Did It Anyway
I’m not the target market. That’s usually what I say when a new movie or TV show comes out that may or may not be good but I know for a fact that I’m not the audience they’re shooting for. Nashville, a rousing drama about competing country music stars? The only country song I’ve listened…
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Yes! Susan Kelechi Watson of This Is Us Fame Announces Her IRL Relationship Goals
Susan Kelechi Watson, who plays one half of the #RelationshipGoals fan favorite couple Randall and Beth Pearson of This Is Us fame, has announced her own IRL relationship goals by sharing news of her engagement to her boo and fellow actor, Jaime Lincoln Smith. As CNN reports, Watson shared her news on Instagram with an ode…