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While I’m not big on resolutions or much into the new year ushering in a new me,

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While visiting The Breakfast Club to talk about her new book, Spiritual Hygiene: A Practical Path for Clean Living, Inner Authority, and Divine Freedom, and return to OWN with Iyanla: The Inside Fix, The Breakfast Club hosts. “I wasn’t going to give him the opportunity to disrespect his mother by disrespecting her mother. And I didn’t know what he might do, but I

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CHICAGO—Every day at 5 p.m., a hush falls over the lobby of The St. Regis Chicago. That’s when Deidre Dukes wheels her champagne cart forward and the atmosphere shifts. Guests pause mid-conversation. Phones emerge to capture the moment.

Dukes commands attention in her navy suit, maroon vest and white gloves. At the center of it all is the hotel’s famous sabrage ceremony, part of

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For Paige Tailyn, love didn’t just arrive: it bloomed. The plant-centered storytelling. 

“Do you know how your dreams feel like they are moving in slow motion? It felt like that for me,” Tailyn tells ESSENCE, recalling the moment she became a fiancée. “From us walking into the greenhouse, to looking for the Arthurium Queen, to Sydney getting down on one knee while uttering some

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For Paige Tailyn, love didn’t just arrive: it bloomed. The plant-centered storytelling. 

“Do you know how your dreams feel like they are moving in slow motion? It felt like that for me,” Tailyn tells ESSENCE, recalling the moment she became a fiancée. “From us walking into the greenhouse, to looking for the Arthurium Queen, to Sydney getting down on one knee while uttering some

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Djimon Hounsou found himself the victim of an assault recently, and the assailant is his ex-girlfriend and the mother of two of his children. We know what you’re thinking: Who knew he had more than one child?

Honsou’s ex-girlfriend, Riza Marie Simpson, was arrested for punching him in the face. On Friday, January 16, Simpson was booked into the Atlanta City Detention Center

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