May 22, 2013

Zoe Saldana Totally Open to Dating Women

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*Zoe Saldana hasn’t been very secretive about her love life and her passion for the risqué. She’s even said in the past that she loves sex and is unashamed. But the latest news comes as a shocker. Earlier this week she said she’s not only into men, but she’s open to dating women. In an [...]




Niecy Nash’s Dating Tips for Singles in New Book: ‘It’s Hard to Fight Naked’

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*Niecy Nash is giving advice. Watch out now. The actress recently released a book for single women. Happily married to her husband, Jay Tucker, she offers some friendly dating advice for women to meet their perfect match in her new book “It’s Hard to Fight Naked.” In an interview with Sister 2 Sister, she talks [...]




Kenya Moore Lays Down the Law on the men of ‘RHOA’

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*Kenya Moore, who happens to be single and childless, is calling out those “RHOA” men/husbands. She says they need to learn how to address a lady. It totally went down during part 3 of the season 5 reunion on Sunday. First, it was a battle between Kenya and her unspoken object of affection or lust, [...]




New Dating Site (Black Celibacy.com) Caters to Celibate Singles

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*It’s not always about the sex. It’s about the love and connection for many. A new dating site has the dating world abuzz. More and more singles are turning to abstinence and celibacy for various reasons, but are still in need of that special someone. BlackCelibacy.com, founded by Jeremy Billingsley, noticed there was a need [...]




Essence Blogger Speaks To Black Women About Finding ‘Submission-Worthy’ Men

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*The roles between men and women often become blurred in today’s society. We are not living in the 1950′s household or society where women’s voices were squelched or unheard and barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen is the norm. Today’s woman has many of the same opportunities as men and the dilemmas in the household [...]




Couple Still in Love After 52 Years of Marriage

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*Each year, Ed and Tina Green watch their daughter’s wedding video at their Gambrills, Md., home in silence. She died on July 5, 1993, of cancer, just one year after walking down the aisle, says BCNN1.com. “If I was ever going to be depressed, that would have been the time,” recalled Ed. “But Tina and [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: No Love Allowed

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Recently Jada Pinkett Smith posted an interesting entry on FaceBook that gave way to many comments and conversation. Not just on social media, but in a few circles of mine. She said, (referring to Rihanna’s song No Love Allowed) . . . “I have always loved these words in this song because I believe it [...]




Keith Sweat’s New Book Shows You How to ‘Make It Last Forever’

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*Is Keith Sweat qualified to give relationship advice? Could be since the singer of famous R&B ballads and sexual healing, mood-changing songs like “Make It Last Forever” and “Hood Sex”has a new relationship book out called, would you believe, “Make it Last Forever.” In an interview with The Root, the singer turned author chatted about [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: Love Actually is Everywhere

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*The deeper I grow in love, the more fascinated by it I become. I’m learning about the various facets of love in friendships, romantic relationships, familial connections, nature, human affiliations and experiences. While we focus primarily on romantic relationships, like the characters said in the movie Love Actually, “love actually, is everywhere.” It’s in a [...]




Jada Pinkett Smith Vents… or Something About Relationships

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*It appears Jada Pinkett Smith is feeling the need to vent about marriage, maybe her own. The eccentric mother, actress and singer went in on marriage in a Facebook post saying the union shouldn’t look anything like enslavement. “Marriage should not feel like enslavement,” she wrote in one entry before going on to write about familial [...]




Kenya Moore: Walter is a Bad Person; ‘Good Riddance’

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*Finally, they’ve reached the point most knew was just on the horizon. Awkwardly strange couple Kenya Moore and Walter Jackson have parted ways and the former pageant winner is over it. “No one should settle for a relationship for the sake of being in one. Once I moved to Atlanta the relationship was flushed out. [...]




Rev. Run and Tyrese Duke it Out in New Book About Men

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*Oh yes. Ladies, the book we’ve all been waiting for. “Manology: Secrets of Your Man’s Mind Revealed.” Though we sometimes think we’ve got the simple man figured out – you know, he’s like a puppy – feed him, pet him, give him commands, and he’s happy. But Tyrese and Rev. Run say it’s a bit [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: Before You Say I Do

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“Marriage is hard.” That seems to be one thing that many people agree on, whether they are married or divorced. Well, the statistics  in the United States support that notion, with a divorce rate of 40 – 50% depending on whose report you’re reading. When people seem to be “happily” married, people often marvel at [...]




R. Kelly Revives ‘Trapped in the Closet’ Series – He Ain’t Tired Yet

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*No, no, no! R. Kelly went back to the “Closet” series with a new dramatic music video. Another chapter in the chocolate factory creator’s “Trapped in the Closet” revives fans’ thirst for sex, music and soap opera-like theatrics. Perhaps there’s no end to the twisted story telling. A press release revealed that the next installment [...]




Living in the Land of Make Believe: Finding Love before Finding Love

Boston businesswoman Monica Cost, an organizer of MassGap.org

*There are countless self help books that try to teach us how to love ourselves, accept ourselves for who we are and to find inner peace within ourselves. What they are really trying to help us do is to find true love. A love that begins within and one that I believe is the purest [...]