To quote the prolific performer R. Kelly, “You can cry a river, til’ an ocean starts to form/but she’ll always remember, cuz’ she’s a woman scorned.” Robin apparently started to see ‘blurred lines’ as an artist and husband and Paula Patton responded by pulling the the plug on their apparently-deceased marriage. Good luck and blessings… Continue reading Oct. 9: Paula Patton Files For Divorce From Robin Thicke
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Alicia Keys: Still Empowering, or Just Exploitive?
*Alicia Keys is getting back into the music, but will she still have those millions of fans? This past essay explains why I’m not so sure I can be on-board….* More detested than a declined credit card. Able to massacre marriages and destroy households in a single bound. Wives don’t want to see her,… Continue reading Alicia Keys: Still Empowering, or Just Exploitive?
When Keeping The Ring Goes Wrong
Just 27 years old with a small toddler and a tall child that I was married to, all I could see for my future with this man were more fights and more lies. Did he honestly think I was that stupid? Was this the best he could offer me? Was this the best I could do for myself, and for our son? I decided that it was no longer enough. The following year I filed for divorce. I struggled with becoming yet another tired statistic—that of a ‘black single mother’—but to spare my sanity, I had no other choice. I had a life to live and a child to raise.
Vacating The HeartBreak Hotel, AKA Lessons In Love
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — Albert Einstein Picture it: 1998. Actress, rapper and former Fugees member, Lauryn Hill , layers fiercely feminist principles of self-love and relationship empowerment over hip-hop rhythms for her debut solo CD, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Her soul-searing ballads and hard-hitting… Continue reading Vacating The HeartBreak Hotel, AKA Lessons In Love