“When I asked [Ciara] to marry me, once she said yes, I said, ‘Before we go do this, can we pray? I want to make sure we always put God at the center of it all’…And so I think the thing that hopefully exudes from our love is that, listen, love is never perfect. But we continue…

Don't let other people's doubt limit your journey 👏🏾

The Dynamic Duo - The Artist & Muse Kollin Carter & Cardi B along with their iconic MET Gala looks photographed for the cover of Hollywood Reporter by AB+DM

Give Colman Domingo and stylists Wayman Bannerman and Micah McDonald ALL the tings! The Hollywood Reporter

So exciting. The Guardian has hired Natricia Duncan as its 1st Caribbean correspondent. This beat could not be in safer hands.

When she was a reporter at The Voice, I could always rely on Natricia's diligence, work ethic for a scoop. Congratulations!

theguardian.com/media/2024/mar…

Mo Gilligan on The Tonight Show promoting the US leg of his world tour 🇬🇧👏🏾

“There’s no way to get me to know that I belong here faster than doubting that I’m here, you know?” - Issa Rae (IG: Hooraemedia)

Quinta Brunson says when her mother saw #AbbottElementary , where her roles include creator, executive producer and showrunner, “it was the first time she ever told me she was proud of me. I know she doesn’t think it was, but it was”

Read her The New Yorker profile here:…

Regina King’s first cover story since the passing of her son Ian two years ago. She also wore orange, Ian’s favourite colour. The publication said Regina “carefully selected” the Ralph Lauren gown to honour him 🧡 Harper’s BAZAAR

Regina King speaks on the loss of her son Ian two years after his passing: “I’m a different person now than I was. Grief is a journey. I understand grief is love that has no place to go… I was so angry with God. Why would that weight be given to Ian?” [🎥: Good Morning America]

The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied murder of schoolgirl Elianne Andam, 15. Elianne was stabbed at a bus stop in Croydon on September 27 during the morning rush hour. A trial is set to take place in November.

The original Jpeg without the black and White grade, I expect a full apology and retraction from Daily Mail Online The Telegraph Victoria Ward

No trees or meadows were moved or swapped, this is the image straight out of camera.

Also that is a Jacaranda Tree, not a willow tree.

“Apart from the things I’ve been able to do for Hackney, [what] I’m proudest of is that I’ve lived to see a new generation of young Black women coming to Parliament. The first 10 years, I was there on my own”

Thank you for all you have done and all you continue to do,…

'I was a girl from a black working-class family. Both my parents left school at 14… My teacher told me she didn't think I was up to [going to Cambridge], I replied: “But I do, and that’s the main thing isn’t it?” - Diane Abbott, UK's first black woman MP penguin.co.uk/articles/2019/…

“After the 1983 general election, there were no black, Asian or minority ethnic MPs. I ignored the odds and was elected in 1987, the first black woman MP... Many Labour party members worked hard to back me, others went missing” - Diane Abbott (2017) theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Apart from the things I’ve been able to do for Hackney, [what] I’m proudest of is that I’ve lived to see a new generation of young Black women coming to Parliament.The first 10 years,I was there on my own”

Diane Abbott,the first Black woman MP, for Vogue vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifes…

Black women 🫱🏾‍🫲🏿 Range

She said what she said. And everything was 🎯

Any black woman with a public profile understands the armour of steel you have to wrap around yourself to simply do your job. The threats and abuse go hand in hand with turning up to work. So, it’s a problem when what is clearly racism & abuse is defended 1/