BOB MACKEY PHOTOGRAPHY Fashion and Art FACEs of Fashion 2026 Celebrates Atlanta’s Icons While Making Room for the Next Generation There is an old saying that children are our future, but Fulton County Arts & Culture Director David Manuel opened FACEs of Fashion 2026 with a different perspective. He said he believes our children are not simply the future, they are the here and now. And then, almost as if By Dr. Christal Jordan • 4 min read
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
Lifestyle Disney Dreamers Academy Is Entering its 20th Year With a Bold New Vision. For nearly two decades, Disney Dreamers Academy, Walt Disney World Resort’s signature program, has brought 100 high school students from across the country to the resort and parks for an immersive four-day experience focused on career exploration, personal development, and discovering what’s possible. Now, as the program By Brenda Alexander • 2 min read
Goal Getters Robert Pope Kept Moving Even When He Couldn’t See What Was Next Goal Getters Robert Pope can tell you about leaving jobs, starting over, sleeping in his car, making eight dollars an hour after earning a comfortable salary, building a business before he really had all the pieces and watching that business survive economic shifts that could have easily taken it under. By Datrick Davis • 8 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
Reality Television LAMH: Destiny Payton Thought She Was Martell Holt's Exception to the Rule Katt Williams famously said during his interview with Shannon Sharpe on his Club Shay Shay podcast: “You having an unnatural allegiance to losers is not like you.” These are the words I consider when I think about Love & Marriage: Huntsville’s Destiny Patyon. Destiny’s entry onto the show By Brenda Alexander • 6 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 My Cousin, My Family, His Legacy: Happy 66th Birthday, Andre By O’Neal, Entertainment Editor, Lenox & Parker September 26 would have been my cousin Andre Harrell’s 66th birthday. I’ve celebrated this day with him more times than I can count, and even though he isn’t here to blow out the candles or hear us tell the By O’neal Mcknight • 5 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
