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Faith Evans: New “Divas,” New Music & Headlining At Essencefest
If you’re a music fan who reminisces fondly about 1990s R&B, your recollections wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Faith Evans. Not only did the multi-faceted singer and songwriter carve out her musical legacy behind the boards for some of the biggest and brightest in the business (Mary J. Blige, SWV and Usher, to name a [...]
Let’s Hear It For The Girl: Celebrating Our Resident Princess
The month of May is typically a hectic one at the Jackson Residence. Mother’s Day momentos crowd the mantle, school activities from multiple campuses jam the calendars and we celebrate the birthday of our youngest family member, Baby Girl, after a succession of back-to-back spring bashes. The fact that all three kids have birthdays one [...]
Poignant And Provocative, New Book Asks Blacks “Where Did Our Love Go?”
Due to an avalanche of “Successful But Single Black Woman” news stories, celebrity-fueled talk show panels and the success of Steve Harvey’s book “Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man,” there’s been buzz aplenty about the shrinking rate of black marriages and the exploding rate of black single-parent homes. But instead of pointing fingers [...]
“Where Did Our Love Go?”: A Gil Robertson Q&A
Raise your hand if you’re tired of the assembly-line of smug and self-congratulatory ‘relationship manuals’ written by folks like Tyrese and Steve Harvey that make Black women into paupers and Black men into princes that are always right and always capable of moving on if WE don’t care enough to acquiesce. Yawn. Fortunately, however, Atlanta-based [...]
Chatting With Gabby, a MOC/Knowshi Interview & Preview Link
When it comes to sacred subjects like marriage and motherhood, most of us are eager to lighten our loads and look forward to reading, or seeing, what the rich and famous say about how they keep it together….until their words are construed as a burden that can only make things worse. That’s what happened last [...]
The “Glass Slipper” Saga, Part II: Reece Re-Affirms The Real Deal
It was a sentence that rocked blogs, dominated newsfeeds and infuriated women by the millions: “To be truly feminine means being soft, receptive and — look out, here it comes — submissive.” Eyes rolled, indignation reached epic proportions and nearly- unanimous cries of “No. She. DIDN’T!” swirled around water coolers and permeated the blogosphere. To [...]
Slippery Tongues, Shortened Careers; The Era Of The Misspeak
In the last few years, a disturbing trend has emerged due to the prevalence of social media and the emergence of instant “real time” reactions to news stories and events. It’s a concept that politicians, candidates and other famous folks have bandied about in order to walk back an offensive remark or comment once it’s [...]
“Glass Slipper” Or Concrete Block? Compromise Shouldn’t Mean ‘All For One, None For All’
With serial monogamy becoming the norm rather than the exception and nearly half of all American marriages ending in divorce, it’s hard to avoid skepticism when anyone other than a proven expert offers advice on what works. And when you’re already a high-profile celebrity, those doubts only multiply, especially when you’re a woman who seems [...]
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