black marriage
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Barack Obama's New Memoir Reveals the Strain the Presidency Put on His Marriage
“If I were able to run for a third term, Michelle would divorce me.” Barack Obama told Jimmy Kimmel in October of 2016. It was obviously a joke, but in the first volume of the upcoming presidential memoir, A Promised Land, our favorite former president reveals that the pressures of the White House did add…
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'Marriage Is Not Checkers, It's Chess': Summit Explores Making Black Love Last
Barack and Michelle Obama aren’t the only black married couple in this country, and the Black Love Summit, held in Atlanta on Saturday, proved that. A spill-over from the successful docuseries Black Love—which returns to OWN on Aug. 10 and was created by real-life married couple Tommy and Codie Elaine Oliver—the summit attracted a few…
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'R&B': This Is Us Unravels the 'Same Fight' Randall and Beth Have Been Having Since They Met
This is it—the moment we reveal what’s behind the wizard’s “relationship goals” curtain. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.) The dichotomy between This Is Us faves Beth Pearson (Susan Kelechi Watson) and Randall Pearson (Sterling K. Brown) has always been apparent, but somehow it worked. Beth was the (overly) practical peanut butter to Randall’s (overly) optimistic jelly. The…
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Family or Fiancé? Relationship Expert Tracy McMillan Discusses Just How Much Family Factors into a Relationship
Imagine nearing the real-life version of that movie moment when someone always manages to stop the wedding during the “speak now or forever hold your piece” bit. Except you have to try avoid that moment with the help of a relationship expert while broadcast on a huge network owned by a media mogul. That relationship…
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Chance the Rapper Becomes Chance the Groom; Marries Longtime Boo Kirsten Corley
Looks like the Coloring Book of Chance the Rapper’s life just got brighter. Chance, born Chancelor Jonathan Bennett, married Kirsten Corley on Saturday in what looked like a stunning ceremony at the Pelican Hill resort in Newport Beach, Calif. Following a longtime relationship (they officially boo’d up in 2013), the two lovebirds got engaged in…
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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz on Cover of Cultured Magazine as a Black Panther Power Couple
Alicia Keys-Dean and her producer hubby Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean look like a true power couple on the cover of Cultured Magazine. Black Power, that is. The cover is a re-creation of a 1970 photograph of Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and then-wife Kathleen Neal Cleaver taken by photographer Gordon Parks. The accompanying spread is…
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Black Marriage, Explained, in 20 Questions About Pie
(Sidenote: I will neither confirm nor deny that these pie-related questions were asked in my house in a 24-hour span.) 1. “Did you get that racist-ass pie again, or the good pie?” 2. “You know that you’re the buyer of racist pies in this household, not me, right?” 3. “Remember the first time we had pie…
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8 Things You Need to Know if You’re Invited to a Wedding This Summer
If you cannot afford to give money, your presence is all that counts. And if you can’t afford to give money, but you do crochet and shit, crochet some shit for them. Crochet your happy, crocheting ass off. But if you do have money, give money. Because weddings are damn expensive. And unless they’re in…
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Some Did Choose to Return to Slavery Because They Chose Family Over Everything
It is 1857 and Kanye, a carpenter, has finally saved up enough money to buy his freedom from Massa West. Trouble is, he has to leave his wife, Kimba, and five children on the plantation until he can buy them out of slavery as well. Kanye is free from the constant threat of the lash…
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Is It a Coincidence That Today’s Most Outspoken Black Male Athletes Are Married to Black Women? (Hint: Nah)
In 2005, Kanye West articulated the perceived inevitability of successful black men leaving black women for white women in “Gold Digger”—a song 1) in which he was speaking specifically to black women and 2) that he created while he was likely dating either Alexis Phifer or Brooke Crittendon (actual black women). Considering Kanye’s present life,…