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Leona’s Love Quest Part IX- What’s Luck Got to Do with It?
We’ve all heard the stories before. Someone receives an e-mail from their future spouse on the very last day before their online dating subscription is set to expire. Another finally tries online dating after years of reluctance and meets their soul mate within the first week. A friend who was late for an appointment, missed their train, or was dragged kicking and screaming to a party meets the love of their life through a chance encounter. It’s true that Cupid often decides to strike his arrow at some of the most fortuitous moments. It makes me wonder, when it comes to finding that special someone, what’s luck got to do with it?
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Keeping the Race Together or Keeping You Under Control?
Christelyn’s new book is on the threshold of release as I’m typing this. And with that news comes the necessary promotion and word spreading you expect while trying to get a product out there to consumers. There was a link to one such feature that had the predictable bit of grumbling and talking points. You know, the lie-filled scare tactics that never fail to come up when black women even think about expanding their dating options.
In any case, one particular sentiment stood out to me…
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Leona’s Love Quest Part VIII- “Thinking Like a Man”
“I know. I know. I could hear the cyber moaning and groaning as I typed the title of this post…”
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Baby News!! BB&W Crew Girl, ‘Bunny77′ Has a BUN in the Oven!!
Anybody who’s been around this blog for the past two years knows the wise and statistically-gifted ‘Bunny77,’ who has in the past, shared her experience meeting her husband through a little Jewish matchmaker, got married a little over a year ago, and BOOM! guess what? She’s PREGGERS!!
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Groundbreaking Columbia Study: Fear and Stereotypes keep Black Women out of Interracial Marriage
Black women in America are more likely to be unmarried than women of other races. They are also least likely to marry men outside of their race although a Pew Research Center report suggests that interracial marriage has more than doubled since 1980.
Released in February 2012, the report suggests that there are specific gender variations within some racial groups. Asian women are twice as likely to marry out as Asian men and Black males are more than twice as likely to marry out as their female counterparts.
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April Issue of Archie: He’s About to Marry Valerie, But Some are None Too Happy.Ever Wonder If This Could Happen IRL?
Will it be like the two-year-old who doesn’t want anyone else to play with her toys?
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SheKnows.com: Four Truths About Interracial Relationships
The folks at SheKnows.com asked me to lend them some wisdom on the oft studied, oft misunderstood, oft discussed, oft debated tangle of that, that, and the other regarding interracial relationships.
Here’s a bit:
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Do You Have to Leap Small Buildings and Wear a Cape to Snag a Rainbeau?
It’s probably safe to say that Avant did pretty well for herself. This is a hunch, but I’m guessing nobody told her she needed to lower her standards and start trolling jailhouses when it was time for her to start looking for a hubster. The one she got is a high-acheiver and makes more than $2 million a year. What you see here, my friends, is a power couple. One in which I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t have seen in the 80′s, or even the 90′s. This is a new, NEW Power Couple.
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Stila, Vaska, Barleans, SENNA, Anatasia Beverly Hills and More Wanna Make Sure You’re “First Date Ready” at L.A. “Swirling” Book Signing!
After May 15, I’ll be expecting to be on your Christmas, Kwanza and Hannukah cards because the mother of all book signings is happening in Los Angeles, and boy oh boy, we’ve got some goodies for only the first 25 people who arrive at Eso Wan book store–you know that one, where BARACK OBAMA and BILL CLINTON came down from Heaven to sign their books. And because I know people, I’ve got some folks really, REALLY excited about getting all of your First Date Ready (FDR). We want you to be FDR inside AND out, so get a relationships book like “Swirling” to get your mind right, and I’ll take care of the rest.
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Best Frenemies: What’s the Deal With Toxic Friendships?
Once upon a time you had friends and you had enemies. Then somewhere along the line in the effort to get along with EVERYBODY, we got “frenemies”: a cute pop culture term for people that, to be blunt, you really have no business socializing with in the first place.
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“Swirling” Chapter Excerpt: “What Do I Do If My Partner’s Parents Think Our Interracial Relationship is a Sin?”
This one is serious, so no silly sound effects. This is a real note, for a real person, so I want to be sensitive to how she might be feeling. It’s one thing to face rejection because of skin color, but it’s a whole other thing for folks to hide behind “religion to justify bigotry. In this video, I give the writer some tips on how to deal with it, identify red flags and how to talk to her mate about the situation. We go into a lot of details about these situations in “Swirling,” but I’ll share just a little bit here:
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Video: Beautiful Black Bride with Her Rainbeau
This wedding looked like it was amazing. Wish I was around, I would’ve crashed it.
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‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Moment’ Chapter in “Swirling” Book Excerpt in HITCHED!
My Guess Who? moment with my husband was a disaster. In fact, the whole ordeal broke us up for a while.
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BB&W Exclusive Video: Janice Littlejohn and Actress/Author Diane Farr Talk “Swirling”
Diane Farr sat down with Beyond Black & White at the “Los Angeles Times” book festival last week. Take a listen on what this actress has to say about swirling couples and their representations in Hollywood.
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