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Mass incarceration is a type of loss. It isn't often framed that way, but you know we are all about the reframe here. In the last interview in the series from the Kennedy Center, Karega and Felicia sit down with their friend Tony Lewis Jr., a DC community leader, re-entry expert, and champion for children with mass incarcerated parents to discuss the community and specifically the youth of DC. Plus, the trio explore the concept of "at-risk" youth, and the grief, and loss experienced by those who have incarcerated parents. 

Make sure you follow and support Tony by checking out his book Slugg: A Boy's Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration and following him on Instagram @mrtonylewisjr

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Karega's New Album Legacy Lounge Season 1 "Legacy Talk Only"  is AVAILABLE NOW through EVEN. 

Felicia's new book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Mothers Who Are Investigating Grief's Process is available now! A collection of affirmations for Mothers who are experiencing Motherhood differently than imagined. These affirmations are carefully written with the intention to support Mothers in centering their Love through different walks of pregnancy and neonatal loss. Karega's book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Reflection and Manifesting Light Within is also available for purchase. You can find out more about Karega and Felicia (and Kamaiu and Kamali) at their website SOLandLove.com

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The award-winning 🖤Black Love Podcast Network🖤 is back with✨ BRAND NEW ✨episodes! Since its launch in 2021, the Black Love Podcast Network has been the premiere destination for thought-provoking conversations on topics ranging from parenting and relationships to male wellness and sisterhood. 

As always, our community is the cornerstone of our content and we continue to want to connect with you! Make sure you’re following us on Instagram @blacklove and you can send us an email at podcasts@blacklove.com.

BLACK LOVE, INC. is the premier Black-owned & operated media company for celebrating 360 degrees of Black Love.
 

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"Sometimes the art is showing up to the day differently than you've done before." - Dr. Felicia Gangloff-Bailey

As Karega and Felicia continued their stay in DC they knew that they needed to link up with their old friend Angel Gregorio. If you know DC, you know Angel. You know The Spice Suite, you know the work she does for the community and our people. What you probably don't know is how she has shown up for Karega and Felicia specifically in their grief. Listen in as Angel shares how her grief in losing her brothers to mass incarceration and her mother to drug addiction helped fuel her commitment to community, how she has more questions than answers, and how loss truly shapes us all. 

Make sure you follow and support Angel by checking out Black and Forth and  @thespicesuite 

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Karega's New Album Legacy Lounge Season 1 "Legacy Talk Only"  is AVAILABLE NOW through EVEN. 

Felicia's new book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Mothers Who Are Investigating Grief's Process is available now! A collection of affirmations for Mothers who are experiencing Motherhood differently than imagined. These affirmations are carefully written with the intention to support Mothers in centering their Love through different walks of pregnancy and neonatal loss. Karega's book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Reflection and Manifesting Light Within is also available for purchase. You can find out more about Karega and Felicia (and Kamaiu and Kamali) at their website SOLandLove.com

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The award-winning 🖤Black Love Podcast Network🖤 is back with✨ BRAND NEW ✨episodes! Since its launch in 2021, the Black Love Podcast Network has been the premiere destination for thought-provoking conversations on topics ranging from parenting and relationships to male wellness and sisterhood. 

As always, our community is the cornerstone of our content and we continue to want to connect with you! Make sure you’re following us on Instagram @blacklove and you can send us an email at podcasts@blacklove.com.

BLACK LOVE, INC. is the premier Black-owned & operated media company for celebrating 360 degrees of Black Love.
 

Connect with us:

@blacklove on Instagram

@blacklovedoc on Facebook

@blacklovedoc on Twitter

While artists in residence at the Kennedy Center, Karega & Felicia had the opportunity to sit down with their old friend husband, father, community leader, and licensed therapist Kier Gaines. In conversation they discuss not only how they have shown up for each other, but for community, and specifically the youth. It is a conversation about Black Love at it's core. 

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Karega's New Album Legacy Lounge Season 1 "Legacy Talk Only"  is AVAILABLE NOW through EVEN. 

Felicia's new book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Mothers Who Are Investigating Grief's Process is available now! A collection of affirmations for Mothers who are experiencing Motherhood differently than imagined. These affirmations are carefully written with the intention to support Mothers in centering their Love through different walks of pregnancy and neonatal loss. Karega's book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Reflection and Manifesting Light Within is also available for purchase. You can find out more about Karega and Felicia (and Kamaiu and Kamali) at their website SOLandLove.com

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The award-winning 🖤Black Love Podcast Network🖤 is back with✨ BRAND NEW ✨episodes! Since its launch in 2021, the Black Love Podcast Network has been the premiere destination for thought-provoking conversations on topics ranging from parenting and relationships to male wellness and sisterhood. 

As always, our community is the cornerstone of our content and we continue to want to connect with you! Make sure you’re following us on Instagram @blacklove and you can send us an email at podcasts@blacklove.com.

BLACK LOVE, INC. is the premier Black-owned & operated media company for celebrating 360 degrees of Black Love.
 

Connect with us:

@blacklove on Instagram

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Joe and Reese welcome "The Hood Psychic" to the show and receive a Love Reading

Happy Valentine's Day! In this bonus episode, we continue our discussion about in-law relationships to focus on how Black fathers-in-law and sons-in-law can create healthy bonds. Ericka Lewis, PhD, MSW,assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work (UMSSW), and Brianna Lemmons, PhD, MSW, assistant professor at the Baylor University Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, join "The UMB Pulse" to talk about their study. Their findings, which were co-authored by Michael Woolley, PhD, MSW, professor at UMSSW, were published in Psychology of Men & Masculinities.

Listen to The UMB Pulse on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you like to listen. The UMB Pulse is also now on YouTube.

Visit our website at umaryland.edu/pulse or email us at umbpulse@umaryland.edu.

“People look at you and think, ‘Oh you got 30 years of marriage. You’ve figured everything out.’ No, there are some things that we are still trying to figure out.”

David and Tamela first met when they were in their teens, but it was NOT in a relationship capacity. They were just friends, homies, pals. Clearly that didn't last, but it wasn't as simple as friends turned to lovers. In this 2018 interview for Black Love Doc, David and Tamela share how they went from friends to partners to parents and even business partners with the love and humor that they are known for. 

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The award-winning 🖤Black Love Podcast Network🖤 is back with✨ BRAND NEW ✨episodes! Since its launch in 2021, the Black Love Podcast Network has been the premiere destination for thought-provoking conversations on topics ranging from parenting and relationships to male wellness and sisterhood. 

As always, our community is the cornerstone of our content and we continue to want to connect with you! Make sure you’re following us on Instagram @blacklove and you can send us an email at podcasts@blacklove.com.

BLACK LOVE, INC. is the premier Black-owned & operated media company for celebrating 360 degrees of Black Love.
 

Connect with us:

@blacklove on Instagram

@blacklovedoc on Facebook

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Felicia's desire for structure and Karega's desire to take the path of least resistance when it comes to parenting is looked at in depth within this episode. In this episode, both share honest thoughts about navigating through the journey of parenthood and the power struggles that come with it.

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Felicia's new book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Mothers Who Are Investigating Grief's Process is available now! A collection of affirmations for Mothers who are experiencing Motherhood differently than imagined. These affirmations are carefully written with the intention to support Mothers in centering their Love through different walks of pregnancy and neonatal loss. Karega's book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Reflection and Manifesting Light Within is also available for purchase. You can find out more about Karega and Felicia (and Kamaiu and Kamali) at their website SOLandLove.com

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The award-winning 🖤Black Love Podcast Network🖤 is back with✨ BRAND NEW ✨episodes! Since its launch in 2021, the Black Love Podcast Network has been the premiere destination for thought-provoking conversations on topics ranging from parenting and relationships to male wellness and sisterhood. 

As always, our community is the cornerstone of our content and we continue to want to connect with you! Make sure you’re following us on Instagram @blacklove and you can send us an email at podcasts@blacklove.com.

BLACK LOVE, INC. is the premier Black-owned & operated media company for celebrating 360 degrees of Black Love.
 

Connect with us:

@blacklove on Instagram

@blacklovedoc on Facebook

@blacklovedoc on Twitter

Some of you may (or may not) know but Karega is also an artist. His latest album, Legacy Lounge Season 1, features a song  about Felicia (one that she lowkey has been waiting for). However it is through Karega's words that Felicia has been allowed to learn how to process her own grief, and how it gave her the space to learn to love without judgment after loss. 

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Karega's New Album Legacy Lounge Season 1 "Legacy Talk Only"  is AVAILABLE NOW through EVEN. 

Felicia's new book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Mothers Who Are Investigating Grief's Process is available now! A collection of affirmations for Mothers who are experiencing Motherhood differently than imagined. These affirmations are carefully written with the intention to support Mothers in centering their Love through different walks of pregnancy and neonatal loss. Karega's book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Reflection and Manifesting Light Within is also available for purchase. You can find out more about Karega and Felicia (and Kamaiu and Kamali) at their website SOLandLove.com

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The award-winning 🖤Black Love Podcast Network🖤 is back with✨ BRAND NEW ✨episodes! Since its launch in 2021, the Black Love Podcast Network has been the premiere destination for thought-provoking conversations on topics ranging from parenting and relationships to male wellness and sisterhood. 

As always, our community is the cornerstone of our content and we continue to want to connect with you! Make sure you’re following us on Instagram @blacklove and you can send us an email at podcasts@blacklove.com.

BLACK LOVE, INC. is the premier Black-owned & operated media company for celebrating 360 degrees of Black Love.
 

Connect with us:

@blacklove on Instagram

@blacklovedoc on Facebook

@blacklovedoc on Twitter

Do you know your worth and how to eveluate compatibility? Join Darroll Jenkins & Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins, with everyone's favorite newscaster couple  Jeannette Reyes & Robert Burton in a panel moderated by love expert Francesca Hogi as they explore just how you know when you found "the one". 

The Black Love Summit is the home of Black joy and Black love and is about DATING, PARTNERSHIP, WELLNESS, and COMMUNITY.  The 2022 took place November 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA.

Is therapy a thing for these men? What's the last thing they argued with their wives about? Biggest regret? Black Love co-creator Tommy Oliver is joined by Kenny Burns, Chance Brown, Adrian Holmes, and Bill Bellamy in a guys chat about the real ish about being married. You definitely want to be a fly on the wall for this group of unfiltered husbands. 

The Black Love Summit is the home of Black joy and Black love and is about DATING, PARTNERSHIP, WELLNESS, and COMMUNITY.  The 2022 took place November 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA.

In this panel presented by Confluential Films, long time friends Algee Smith and Melvin Gregg sit with Black Love co-creator Tommy Oliver to explore the role brotherhood plays in thriving as a Black man. Does competition act as a motivator or a hindrance between friends whose stars are on the rise? What advice do these men have to those who are trying to create spaces for the Black men in their lives? This is a real, and honest conversation for not just the fellas, but for all of us!

The Black Love Summit is the home of Black joy and Black love and is about DATING, PARTNERSHIP, WELLNESS, and COMMUNITY.  The 2022 took place November 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA.

Black women are leading executive teams, companies, and make up the fastest growing number of business owners. So how do we prioritize relationships, parenting, personal wellness, and leadership? In this panel presented by Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women Initiative and Moderated by Everyday MAGIC (Meaningful Aesthetically-pleasing Goal-oriented Intentional Consistent) author Mattie James. Featuring CEOs Thai Randolph (Heartbeat), Robyn Atwater (Curldaze), Psyche Terry (UI Global Brands) we ask all those questions and more. 

The Black Love Summit is the home of Black joy and Black love and is about DATING, PARTNERSHIP, WELLNESS, and COMMUNITY.  The 2022 took place November 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA.

The Wives panel is back! A favorite at our summits because nothing is off-topic for our panelists! Co-creator of Black Love Codie Elaine Oliver,  is joined by Melanie Fiona, Adrienne "Gammy" Banfield Norris, Melissa Fredricks, and Angel Laketa Moore to dish on the roles women play in marriage and that fine line between "having it all" and exhausted AF. Is there a secret to a successful marriage? Love Languages...do you know them? SEX! The ladies are talking about it all. 

The Black Love Summit is the home of Black joy and Black love and is about DATING, PARTNERSHIP, WELLNESS, and COMMUNITY.  The 2022 took place November 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA.

Parents of three and married couple Russell & Nina Westbrook in conversation with certified therapist Kier Gaines on being bigger than the things that tear them down. What does being an NBA superstar mean for their family? How does Nina being a therapist impact their relationship? What's it like going from high-school sweethearts to life partners? Plus there's a very special surprise at the end! 

The Black Love Summit is the home of Black joy and Black love and is about DATING, PARTNERSHIP, WELLNESS, and COMMUNITY.  The 2022 took place November 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA.

As Felicia and Karega come to the end of 2022 they reflect on just what this second year of SOL Affirmations has meant for them and this community they have built. Thank you all for holding space for grief, reframing, discussion, vulnerability, and above all else love. Make sure you listen to the end to hear a special announcement from Karega and Felicia!

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Felicia's new book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Mothers Who Are Investigating Grief's Process is available now! A collection of affirmations for Mothers who are experiencing Motherhood differently than imagined. These affirmations are carefully written with the intention to support Mothers in centering their Love through different walks of pregnancy and neonatal loss. Karega's book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Reflection and Manifesting Light Within is also available for purchase. You can find out more about Karega and Felicia (and Kamaiu and Kamali) at their website SOLandLove.com

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The 🖤Black Love Shop🖤 is now open just in time for the holidays! Check out our Black Love is Beautiful embroidered sweatshirt, 14k gold plated Royalty necklace 💫 AND our 🕯️✨“Black Love Is ___” organic slow burning candle 🕯️✨. Buy Black this holiday season by checking out everything in the Black Love Shop! 
 

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The holidays are a time of joy for most. It's when we come together with family and friends and celebrate. However when we have lost someone we have loved, the holidays are not JUST the holidays. Sometimes the grief feels like it is fighting with the joy of the season. Karega and Felicia share just what this third year holiday season without Kamaiu on this plane is like and how navigating it with a very joyous Kamali looks like. Plus how has it changed on the journey to here. Afterall, grief isn't linear. Just like the season it is full of changes, moments, and requires reflection.  

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Felicia's new book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Mothers Who Are Investigating Grief's Process is available now! A collection of affirmations for Mothers who are experiencing Motherhood differently than imagined. These affirmations are carefully written with the intention to support Mothers in centering their Love through different walks of pregnancy and neonatal loss. Karega's book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Reflection and Manifesting Light Within is also available for purchase. You can find out more about Karega and Felicia (and Kamaiu and Kamali) at their website SOLandLove.com

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The 🖤Black Love Shop🖤 is now open just in time for the holidays! Check out our Black Love is Beautiful embroidered sweatshirt, 14k gold plated Royalty necklace 💫 AND our 🕯️✨“Black Love Is ___” organic slow burning candle 🕯️✨. Buy Black this holiday season by checking out everything in the Black Love Shop! 
 

Connect with us:

@blacklove on Instagram

@blacklovedoc on Facebook

@blacklovedoc on Twitter

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There's just something special about being connected to your people. We all get to decide who those people are. Relatives, chosen family, and in this instance, Karega & Felicia mean their fellow Hampton Alums. It was homecoming and the trip not only allowed them the room to explore what being around other Black people and going to an HBCU meant to them, but what that community has meant to them since graduating. 

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Felicia's new book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Mothers Who Are Investigating Grief's Process is available now! A collection of affirmations for Mothers who are experiencing Motherhood differently than imagined. These affirmations are carefully written with the intention to support Mothers in centering their Love through different walks of pregnancy and neonatal loss. Karega's book SOL Affirmations: A Toolkit for Reflection and Manifesting Light Within is also available for purchase. You can find out more about Karega and Felicia (and Kamaiu and Kamali) at their website SOLandLove.com

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🖤THE BLACK LOVE SUMMIT IS BACK! 🖤Join us in Los Angeles on November 12th for a day of Black joy and Black love you won’t forget at the 5th Annual Black Love Summit! The Summit is about DATING, PARTNERSHIP, WELLNESS, and COMMUNITY. 

From conversations with Nina & Russell Westbrook to Naturi Naughton & hubby Two Lewis and so many more, we are curating a special day for you and a night of fun with our RnB House Party family! 

Tickets to the 2022 Black Love Summit are available now! Visit BLACKLOVE.COM/SUMMIT for more info.