black love
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Let’s Love Hood Girls Who Aren’t Famous as Much as We Love Cardi B
It’s time for us all to admit that our beloved Cardi B is a national treasure and will save a nation. But it’s also time to reckon with the fact that our rightful adoration for Cardi B reveals a troubling truth: We dismiss, denigrate and force white-appeasing standards on black and Latinx women like her…
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Watch: OWN’s Black Love Digs Into the Best Hollywood Couples’ Love Lives for Honest and Raw Advice
Black love is about to get more than hashtaggable attention. Oprah Winfrey’s OWN has decided to make black love into a docuseries of the same name. Winfrey tapped filmmakers Codie Elaine Oliver and Tommy Oliver (The Perfect Guy) and Confluential Films for the new show Black Love. OK, so what is it? Black Love highlights…
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Ala. Seniors Prove It’s Never Too Late for Real Love
One Alabama couple is showing us that real love has no limit—especially no age limit. Murphy Wilson, 70, and Lucinda Myers, 67, plan to wed on July 29 in Huntsville, Ala. Like the young whippersnappers these days, they took a series of engagement photos to celebrate their upcoming nuptials, and social media swooned. Comedian Niecy…
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Everybody’s Queen Sugar Bae, Kofi Siriboe, Is Trolling All of Us
Kofi Siriboe is easily the bae of anyone who is attracted to the male species. Kofi knows he’s bae. Kofi also loves black women, fully, unapologetically and relentlessly. It’s clear in the way he treats his momager (who happens to be a friend of mine), Koshie Mills. When he speaks to her, his voice is…
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Don’t Bet on Black: The Bachelorette May Disappoint You
Black America, we have our first Bachelorette! She’s gorgeous, highly accomplished, decidedly brown-skinned and likely pissing off a huge swath of Trump voters (woot, woot!). But spoiler alert (among several): If you’re expecting a season full of scenic montages glorifying black love, she’s also likely to disappoint you. Manage your expectations accordingly. Full disclosure: I’ve…
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Don’t Hurt Yourself: Unicorns Aren’t Real and You’re Not a Special Snowflake
Many moons ago, fresh off an unexpected achievement and gaining a toehold in both the music industry and the fun, freewheeling network that was once Twitter, I decided to celebrate my unlikely success with the social media tagline, “Just your average Grammy-nominated goddess next door … may I borrow some sugar?” Playful? Yes. Obnoxious? Perhaps;…
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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…