By Marita Campbell, BLACKLOVEcom Larry and I met at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia, “Behold the Green and Gold!” Our freshman year, we boarded a bus to go to a basketball game. I immediately knew after seeing Larry that I would marry him! We started dating soon after we met in 1970 and became engaged in […]
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79 years of love: Virginia’s longest married couple celebrates another anniversary | WSLS 10 News
A.J. and Lillie Reeves celebrate lifetime together [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] We Were Eight Years in Power Virginia’s longest married couple just celebrated another anniversary. A.J. and Lillie Reeves recently celebrated 79 years of marriage. The pair were married Jan. 25, 1941 in Sontag. The couple is from Truevine, where they’ve lived their entire life. The couple […]
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Michelle Obama Reveals Why Women Should Marry Their Equal At Essence Festival | Essence
Our forever FLOTUS was out here dropping relationship gems and we soaked up every one.
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Stop Blaming Black Homophobia for Buttigieg’s Problems! | The New York Times
Let’s put an end to this racist trope.
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This Couple Spent Their First Year Of Dating Traveling The World | Travel Noire
DeAnna Taylor, Travel Noire [dropcap]Meet[/dropcap] Jazz (25) and Marc (33). Jazz is Jamaican-American and Marc is German with roots in Mauritius. The couple randomly met at a bar in Bali and 10 days after their initial encounter, decided to travel the world while sharing their art forms as they go. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Marc is a […]
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Black Love Experience Takes Over THEARC | AFRO
George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer, AFRO [dropcap]The[/dropcap] line for the Black Love Experience event snaked back from the entrance and curved around a corner down Mississippi Avenue, S.E. Hundreds of people huddled the cool air waiting for their chance to get inside. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] You only have to step inside a few paces to […]
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She Isn’t High-Maintenance, You’re Just Low Effort | Her Way
April Callaghan, Her Way [dropcap]Last[/dropcap] time I checked, having standards doesn’t make a woman high-maintenance, it just makes her a person who knows what she wants. It doesn’t make her a mission impossible, it just requires a bit more effort than it normally would. And putting in extra effort can be a problem to some, […]
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24 Old School Cool Photos Of Black Couples Throughout The Years | HuffPost
We asked readers to share their favorite photos of their grandparents and parents through the years.
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Lorraine Morton, Evanston’s first black mayor, remembered as trailblazer, history maker | ABC7 Chicago
Karen Jordan, ABC7 Chicago [dropcap]EVANSTON[/dropcap], Ill. (WLS) — Former Evanston Mayor Lorraine Morton is gone, but not forgotten. Morton lived a purpose-driven life, accomplishing many firsts. She made Evanston her home after graduating Northwestern University and became the first educator of color to teach in a public school there. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Over the years, she […]
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Nights at the Museum: Good for Cultivating an Art Habit and Romance | The New York Times
Hilarie M. Sheets , The New York Times Monique and Ronald Ollie in front of Ed Clark’s “Untitled” (1975).CreditCreditSam Gilliam/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]Ronald[/dropcap] Ollie was an engineering student at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in the early 1970s, he would take […]
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