Photo by Brian Wangenheim on Unsplash Dear Akilah – Friendship Gets Tested By Act of Generosity by Akilah Peynado of www.akilahpeynado.com Dear Akilah Hello there! I am so concerned about feeling petty that I almost didn’t write to you; but, I need your advice. Here goes nothing…I am a single woman of a certain age. I do not have any children…
Photo by JD Mason on Unsplash Dear Akilah – Black Lives Matter Member Considers Interracial Dating by Akilah Peynado of www.akilahpeynado.com Dear Akilah I am a 36-year-old woman who has had her run-ins with love. You name it, I am SURE that I have a story to tell about it. I’ve been hurt, I’ve done the hurting, and everything else in-between….
Jephte and Shawniece By Veronica Wells I love me some “Married At First Sight.” While most of the couples on this Lifetime series eventually divorce, it’s fascinating to watch two strangers come together and unite in Holy Matrimony the day they meet each other. Each season, the show usually finds one Black couple to feature. Naturally, it’s the Black couple’s…
By Erma BreAnn Whoever said getting to know someone was fun, glossed over the beginning stages. Getting to know someone is a long term process. In fact, it is never ending. The first few dates are like making it to Wednesday, we’re just trying to get over the hump. As a young woman feeling stuck in ‘forever single’ status, dating…
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…