Reality Television Ready to Love Returns 0:00 /2:15 1× Ready to Love: Chicago brings the search for love to the Windy City as host Thomas Miles guides a new group of successful Black singles in their 30s and 40s through the realities of modern dating. From navigating dating challenges to having the deeper conversations By Dr. Christal Jordan • 1 min read
Events Atlanime Fest Is Building a Home for Black Anime Fans in the Heart of Atlanta What began as a small Trap Sushi party has grown into a four-day celebration of anime, hip-hop, gaming, fashion, and the Black creatives who have made all of it their own. There are some events that could probably happen in any major city and still make sense. Atlanime By Dr. Christal Jordan • 6 min read
Photo by Ria Alfana / Unsplash Lifestyle Pushing past vanilla: The Pleasure Protocol Made Me Rethink Everything I Thought I Knew About BDSM I was watching Tonight’s Conversation, which has probably become my favorite relationship conversation show, when a woman walked up to the microphone and asked how she could get her partner to be open to doing more than vanilla sex. She danced around it for a minute before finally hinting By Dr. Christal Jordan • 4 min read
Everyday Community Beautiful, Bald and Celebrating Five Anthony David and Others Show Up For Star-Studded 5th Annual Baldie Con in Atlanta Atlanta let its soul glow this past weekend as the 5th Annual Baldie Con took over the Westin Buckhead Atlanta from September 24 through September 27, bringing beauty, confidence, sisterhood, and plenty of star power By Dr. Christal Jordan • 3 min read
Events Anybody Wanna Tell Me How Shuler King Became One of the Best Stand-Up Comics to Come Out of Social Media? I’ll admit it. I went to see Shuler King at the Atlanta Comedy Theater expecting to laugh, but I was not expecting to spend most of the night wiping tears from my eyes because I was laughing that hard. I’ve followed Shuler online for years, like millions of By Dr. Christal Jordan • 4 min read
Culture The A in Arionne Curry Must Be for Audacity LAMH viewers are reacting to the delusion with which Arionne is attempting to rewrite the very history they watched unfold. The A in Arionne Curry has to stand for audacity, because after watching her entrance into Love & Marriage: Huntsville, I really cannot come up with a better word. Audacity By Dr. Christal Jordan • 6 min read
Culture A Different World Returns: Dwayne and Whitley’s ’90s Black Love Legacy Lives On in a New Generation There is no clearer illustration of the quintessential '90s Black love and Black excellence than Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert on A Different World. Hillman College was never just a fictional school to those of us who grew up watching it. It represented what was possible when young Black By Dr. Christal Jordan • 7 min read
Culture 10 Biggest Gags From the Season 12 Premiere of Love & Marriage: Huntsville 1. Yes! Arionne Curry has officially entered the chat. Martel’s former mistress, sidekick, side dish, quote-unquote peasant, who has been connected to this extramarital affair since Season 1, Episode 1, has finally made it from being the secret to being his leading lady. No, she isn’t in By Dr. Christal Jordan • 6 min read
Culture Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Again? Asks Gen X to Tell the Truth Before Another Generation Pays for It I remember going to the theater to see the first Why Did I Get Married? back in 2007. I was much younger then, and while I understood relationships, marriage, infidelity and the complicated things Tyler Perry was exploring, I understand all of it very differently now. Life has a way By Dr. Christal Jordan • 6 min read
Chapter & Verse Dr. Glenda Glover Has the Audacity to Ask: How Dare You Take From HBCUs? There is something wonderfully audacious about former TSU president Dr. Glenda Glover naming her book How Dare You. Not We Deserve Better. Not The Fight for Fair Funding. She chose three words that sound like something a mother might say when she catches you doing something you knew good and By Dr. Christal Jordan • 5 min read
Food Chef Shawn Osbey Helps Set the Table for the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival Atlanta has never been shy about its food, and Chef Shawn Osbey understands better than most that the city’s culinary identity is built on both tradition and evolution. From September 10 through September 13, that identity will be on full display as the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival presented By Dr. Christal Jordan • 3 min read
Reviews By Any Means Reminds Us That Fairness Has Never Been America’s Operating System When I first saw the trailer for By Any Means, I knew I was going to see it. Before I knew the full story or recognized every actor, the title had already pulled me in. “By any means necessary” is one of the mantras I have carried with me for By Dr. Christal Jordan • 6 min read
