love jones
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Netflix Will Be the Blues in Your Left Thigh and the Funk in Your Right—Here's What's New and Black in November 2019
We’ve set our clocks back and our streaming services black. Netflix is serving more Strong Black Lead content for November to go with your sweet potato pie! Thanks to Netflix, we can now all watch Love Jones as a family on Twitter and argue about whether Darius’ moves were stalkerish or romantic. The film dropped…
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From Living Single to Love Jones: How the ’90s Shaped My Style
Between Bruno Mars and our new president, Cardi B, taking us back to In Living Color with their video for “Finesse” and bingeing on Living Single after it made its way to Hulu last month, I’m in a ’90s mood. Listen, when Living Single debuted in August of ’93, I knew immediately that I wanted…
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Watch: Larenz Tate Gives Us a Taste of Love Jones 20 Years Later
Say, baby, what if I told you Love Jones is 20 years old? Would you do your Googles to prove me wrong because Love Jones just came out yesterday, Larenz Tate and Nia Long still look the same, and you feel old? Yeah … same. I did my own Googles to make sure because I…
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If You Name It Love Jones, They Will Come
In 1997, when my college roommate and I left the premiere of Love Jones, we headed to the nearest drugstore to find a lipstick to match Nina Mosley’s. My best friend got Nina’s haircut. I teased her mercilessly, but I was secretly envious. I bought the soundtrack, the VHS and, later, the DVD. Find any…
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VSB Roundtable: How Fake Deep Was Your Fake Deep?
The majority of the people reading this were either in high school or college when Love Jones/Def Poetry Jam fever hit the Bougie Black nation, turning everyone into some awkward combination of Saul Williams and Miss Cleo. Christina Eichelberger posed a great question to the rest of the VSB contributors: How fake deep was your…