Photo by Clarke Sanders on Unsplash Black Women and Extended Family: My Uncle Cut Me Off Once I Stopped Paying His Bills As told to Veronica Wells-Puoane of NoSugarNoCreamMag.com Originally published on MadameNoire.com We all know the wealth disparities that exist between White men and everyone else in this country. And with Black women earning only 63 cents to every…
Melvin and Jessica: Courtesy of Jessica Gordon Family Secrets: I Spent 21 Years Calling The Wrong Man Daddy As told to Veronica Wells-Puoane of NoSugarNoCreamMag.com Jessica Gordon was in her junior year of college when her mother tearfully told her that there was a chance another man was her father. All growing up, I thought one guy was my dad,…
Luciana Gilmore: Founder of ‘Gilmore Girls Greeting’ By Kanisha Parks Some mother-daughter relationships form relatively easily and only grow more resilient over time into an unbreakable bond of understanding, love, and respect for one another. But the more common truth is that mother-daughter relationships can be difficult—and that’s an understatement. From infancy to adulthood, entire complicated histories are formed between…
Photo courtesy of The Grio Oprah Winfrey has enlisted filmmakers Tommy Oliver and Codie Elaine Oliver (The Perfect Guy) to produce a new show called Black Love. Black Love will feature the lives and relationships of Meagan Good and DeVon Franklin; Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict; Viola Davis and Julius Tennon; Erica Campbell and Warryn Campbell; among many other additional…
Photo Credit: Fox 26 (Screenshot) Imagine that for Thanksgiving dinner you didn’t have to take off work. That there were no flights, no booking, no frigid Megabus rides down the coast. What if for Thanksgiving you could simply leave your apartment, in your 20,000 sq ft mansion, and walk down the hall, to join the rest of your family, extended…