Health + Wellness
Love + Relationships

7 Ways to Enforce Healthy Boundaries and Preserve Your Peace
Maintaining boundaries in your personal and professional relationships is crucial for preserving your self-respect and protecting your mental health. Whether the relationship in question is friendship, familial, romantic, or professional, the ability to clearly communicate your needs and limits, in a rational way, is an important way to build trust

Da Brat and Judy Dupart Tie the Knot
Love is thick in the air and one of the dopest couples around have finally made their bond so, so official! Legendary rapper Da Brat married her fiancé and entrepreneur Judy Dupart. The stars of WE TV’s Da Brat Loves Judy have solidified their union in a ceremony that took

One Man’s Multifaceted Ode to Black Love Through the Beauty of Our Hair
To commemorate Black History Month, Joy Truth McGowan, the CEO of I Luv Curls, tasked Graced Marketing to help her company craft an impactful message to honor Black History Month. Joy’s husband, Neil McGowan, was selected to share from a man’s perspective about the beauty of Black women and an ode

From a Man’s Point of View: Why Women Should Never Settle
A man gives his honest perspective on why some men don’t like to foster the growth of their romantic relationships in this revisited December 2016 article.

Relight Your Fire: 4 Tips for Keeping Your Relationship Hot
Carol, an old friend of mine, began to rush our conversation along as she spoke to me about love and how she’s managed to remain happily married for over 10 years. “It’s date night,” she said hurriedly. “It’s our thing.” Since they were college sweethearts, Carol and her husband have
Faith

Sunday Manifest: Old Chapters, New Beginnings
Throughout our lives and throughout our days we are constantly encountering moments that are ever changing and ever evolving; in one moment something is here and then it is gone. In the blink of an eye something is born and dies, only to be reborn and to die again. This

Sunday Manifest: The Five C’s Every Artist Should Know
As a creative and performing artist, who straddles the lines between creative director, writer, actor, rapper and poet, my work has always centered around certain principles and guidelines that have not only given my art and it’s output a center and focus, but has allowed me to make decisions that

Sunday Manifest: Black Men, Take Care of Your Mental Health
There have been a slate of suicides, of sudden deaths, orbiting about. We can look around us, around at the world at-large, and the disconnect can feel paramount. Twitter feeds run rampant with the effects of depression and prescriptive anecdotes on uncovering the warning signs of friends and neighbors—the oft-used