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Month: October 2018

Faune: I said I do because Derek had all of the characteristics I wanted in a life partner and when I prayed for myself I found myself praying for him as well. He was always there for every pivotal transitional moment in my life since I was 16 years old. I felt God’s joy when…

Marriage is a commitment contract that must continuously be renewed and reaffirmed. You must continue to support the foundation on which you started and build from there. Algenon and I had our first child in 2004 and we got married in 2005, when he was 23 and I was 19. We were naive about everything…

Russell Hornsby is a brilliant and talented actor whose focus on mastering his craft eclipses everything in his life — that is, everything except for his family. He has blown me away with the fathers he has portrayed, including in the Netflix series Seven Seconds and, most recently, the feature film The Hate U Give,…

India and I met at an alter ego party in college in 2010. The kicker is she was a freshman, and I was in my first year of grad school (it’s just four years people, lol). Anyway, her alter ego was Big Booty Judy, and she did such a good job making the costume she…

On Sunday, October 7th, Lance Gross, Chris Spencer, Devale Ellis and Robbie Jones got together for the Husbands Panel hosted by BLACK LOVE co-creator Tommy Oliver at the first ever Black Love Summit.  The goal: to be as honest as possible about being a husband. The fellas dived in on topics from fights on “Black…

On Sunday, October 7th, Vanessa Spencer gathered Ryan Michelle Bathe, Khadeen Ellis, Aonika Thomas, Ashley Chea – all wives featured in the BLACK LOVE Series – to talk about the realities of wife-dom at the first ever Black Love Summit. The event included a full day of panels and conversations, but these ladies held it…

On Sunday, October 7th, couples and singles alike convened on Los Angeles, California at the W Hotel Hollywood for the first ever Black Love Summit. The couple that created the BLACK LOVE series on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) invited experts, celebrities and couples featured on the show to dig deeper into their personal stories…

Yvette Bennett was in an abusive relationship when a friend asked her one fateful question:  “Do you love yourself?” Answering that question would transform her life into one of her dreams, it would allow her to accept her sexuality and show her the amazing rewards of unconditional self-love.  

We really had no idea what to expect when we first got married because everyone’s journey is unique. But, we weren’t expecting God to shake up our lives a few months after “I do.” The news that my husband lost his job was hard. But, a couple months later learning we were pregnant left us…