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By Team BLAM Enjoy touching moments of love and tenderness from the weddings of black couples. Black folks DO get married. We DO exist….and here is some beautiful proof. These images are stunning and inspiring. Sit back and enjoy another one from our sister friend of the EbonyLoveAndMarriage channel over on YOUTUBE. Check her out when [...]

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By Team BLAM Check out this video that highlights 10 little known facts about Dr. King. We stumbled across this video and thought it was interesting. As we celebrate Dr. King and his vision today make it a point to try and learn something new about him and his life. It’s the not so well [...]

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Post image for Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan And Dr. Boyce Watkins Examine “Django Unchained!!”

‘Django Unchained’ has inspired a lot of talk since it’s release on Dec. 25th.  Spike Lee has come out calling it a spaghetti western and it’s representation of slavery in such a manner is disrespectful to our ancestors.  Katt Williams has said that he is going to punch Quentin Tarantino in the mouth when he [...]

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Post image for A Connecticut Star Lost Too Soon: Our Hearts Go Out To Jimmy Greene And His Family

We at BLAM want to offer our deepest condolences to Jimmy Greene & family for the lost of his 6 yr. old daughter Ana (wearing shirt with the star in the pic) in the Connecticut mass shooting.  We cried and cried and cried some more yesterday.  We know the hurt we feel is pale in [...]

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Post image for Tarantino Claims That “Roots” Is An Oversimplification Of Slavery And Calls It “Bullsh**”

By Jerry L. Barrow of UrbanDaily In another example of White Privilege run amuck, Director Quentin Tarantino put the 1977  TV film “Roots” in his crosshairs for not being an accurate depiction of slavery. “Hollywood didn’t want to deal with it because it was too ugly and too messy,” Tarantino recently told The Daily Beast.  He is making [...]

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By Lorraine Jones South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela is suffering from a recurring lung infection and is responding to medical treatments, the nation’s presidency said recently. The ailing Mandela, 94, has been hospitalized since Saturday for medical tests at 1 Military Hospital near South Africa’s capital, Pretoria. The announcement ended speculation about what was [...]

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Wow! Thanksgiving Dinner Cost Waay More 100 Years Ago!

November 22, 2012
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The average American family will spend $49.48 for their Thanksgiving meal this year, according to CNBC. How does that compare to 100 years ago?   A century ago, it cost about $6.39 for a 16 pound turkey, 3 pounds of sweet potatoes, 1 pound of cranberries, 1 can of peas, 1 can of pumpkin, 1 [...]

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Let Them Walk. Let It Go.

November 11, 2012
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By Team BLAM We are clear about our mission here at BLAM. We exist to promote, encourage, and elevate marriages & relationships in the African-American community in particular and the world in general. But, we are not here promoting any old kind of relationships. We are not here to say hang in there even when [...]

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VIDEO: On Faith, Family, Love &….Pain. Yes, You Can Handle It.

September 25, 2012
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VIDEO: As we build our marriages and our families we will at times experience pain that we will feel is unfair and unprovoked. Nobody said being in relationship with other people you love to pieces would be easy. Listen in as Bishop T.D. Jakes explains how “Being who we are in life to other people [...]

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Hit Movie ‘Still Standing’ Returns To Atlanta On September 13th

September 5, 2012
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By Team BLAM A couple of years ago we had the special privilege of being featured in a film emphasizing the triumphs of black marriage, titled You Saved Me.  If you haven’t seen it…then you might wanna CLICK HERE and get your copy.  The dynamic couple that brought that film to the big screen, Lamar [...]

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