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The Conversation Returns Wednesday February 14, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. EST

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The wait is over!! Conversations Of A Sistah will return on Wednesday February 14, 2024 at 8:00 P.M. EST via our YouTube channel

Our topic of Conversation, singles on Valentine’s Day!!

Because February means being bombarded with red hearts, pink flowers, and phrases like “be mine” “would you be mine” written in elegant script everywhere you look. For some people, both single and in relationships, Valentine’s Day is an annoying and unnecessary commercialized celebration. For those who are unattached and not exactly happy about it, though, it can be more like pouring salt in a wound.

Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be that way! While a couple’s massage may not be on the docket, you can still plan on having a ball on February 14. You can do mother nd daughter massage sessions or girlfriends massage therapy. In fact, Valentine’s Day can be a great opportunity to indulge in fun activities, things and activities to do for you, whether it’s a solo dinner or some self-care. Just because you don’t have a significant other doesn’t mean you can’t commemorate this holiday with some love for self.

There are so many things you can do as a single/solo person on valentine’s day. Here are 23 awesome activities to try out when you’re single on Valentine’s Day.

  1. Go to a movie
  2. Host a singles-only dinner party
  3. Enjoy a beauty treatment
  4. Get out of town
  5. Cook a romantic dinner for your parent or parents
  6. Eat at your favorite restaurant
  7. Do a workout
  8. Stay in and pamper yourself.
  9. Plan a date with a friend/your bestie perhaps
  10. Do something nice for someone else.
  11. Buy yourself flowers
  12. Splurge on a nice piece of jewelry

#12 is what works for me, my dad use to buy me jewelry all the time, so I look forward to all the sales on jewelry each year for valentine’s day. Love is love and you must first have it (LOVE) for yourself.

For those of my followers single this valentine’s day, what’s your plan?

Sound off here and we’ll discuss it on the air!!

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Domestic violence, Murder, Violence

Father of 2 Charged with Murdering UNC Professor Girlfriend

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The boyfriend of a popular UNC professor has been charged with her murder. 45-year-old Donny Lewis Franklin was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with murdering 35-year-old Jeannine Shante Skinner (both pictured above). 

Skinner was an esteemed University of North Carolina professor. Her battered body was discovered in her apartment over the weekend, according to the Charlotte Observer.

Police say Franklin has a history of domestic violence and domestic arrests and he plead guilty to a misdemeanor account of assaulting a woman in 2003.

Friends say Franklin and Skinner’s relationship was “relatively new”. They dated for less than two months and went to church together on Sunday.

Her body was found inside her Ayrsley Town Center apartment after the police conducted a wellness check on her just before noon Friday.

The cause of death was not made public, but police say Skinner suffered blunt force trauma to her body.

Celebrity Couples, Celebrity gossip, Love, Love & Relationships

Patti LaBelle, 71, Dating Her Drummer, 41

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couple-550x360R&B legend Patti LaBelle is living a life straight out of American Gigolo, the 1980 film about an emotionally unavailable high priced male escort.

The 71-year-young songstress, who revived her career selling sweet potato pies for Wal-Mart, is dating her drummer, 41-year-old Eric Seats.

The couple met after he was hired to be her drummer last year.

“She tried to keep it quiet, but everyone around her has figured it out by now. She’s completely smitten with him,” a source told London’s Daily Mail tabloid.

LaBelle’s 42-year-old son, Zuri Edwards, is reportedly unhappy that his mother is dating a man younger than he is.

Seats is known around the music industry for targeting rich older women. He reportedly loves them then leaves them. But Patti’s friends aren’t concerned that Seats might be an American gigolo.

“She hasn’t been this happy in years,” a source confided to the Daily Mail. “Patti was so happy he moved to Philly with her. She loves having him with her all the time. She even has a big portrait of the two of them up on her wall in her bedroom,” said the source.

Seats has toured with Stevie Wonder, Mary J Blige and Missy Elliott, in addition to producing songs for Destiny’s Child, Aaliyah, 702 and Tank.

Dwayne Wade, Gabrielle Union, Relationships, What she said

Gabrielle Union Says Her Parents’ Divorce Helped Her Be A Good Stepmom To Dwayne Wade’s Kids

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I think Gabrielle Union is a bit delirious and the talking too much is giving her away. Gabby said, coming from a product of divorced parents, she’s well prepared to be stepmother to her fiancé Dwayne Wade’s boys.

I’m lucky that I come from a family that went through divorce. My parents were married for 30 years before they got divorced and I’m sure after 30 years there was bitterness, anger, and resentment and fear and all sorts of things.

But I don’t know [for sure] because they never made it our issue, they handled their divorce and our subsequent transition into a blended family with grace and dignity and respect and always put us first and didn’t involve us. So I’m lucky that i can just mirror what my parents did and always put the kids first.

I guess this includes Dwayne Wade’s newest addition as well.

The “Being Mary Jane” actress appears to be so happy at this point in her personal life and career.

Dwayne Wade, Gabrielle Union, Relationships

Gabrielle Union talking “mad shit” in December issue of Essence Magazine

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It is always best to remain humble and silent in any given high-profile relationship, especially when that relationship is very public and a tad-bit scandalous. For some reason Gabrielle Union hasn’t gotten that memo yet.

In the December issue of Essence magazine the Mary Jane actress states in a cryptic statement:

“There’s this intense desire for us all to be chosen by a man, or a job, or chosen for fame, whatever. But when you’re in the public eye and you’re not chosen, the rejection feels public. So to cover the wound, you attack the person who is chosen.” –

But what good is it to be chosen by a man who’s ultimately choosing other women behind your back? Is Gabrielle Union delusional or blindingly refusing to accept the truth for what it is? Either way, she’s sounding a bit cocky in her relationship with Miami Heat baller, Dwayne Wade, who recently gifted her with an NBA championship ring for her birthday.

As for her character Mary Jane, she states: “It would be easy to label Mary Jane a freak…but enjoying sex doesn’t make you a ho,” 

No …but having sex with a smorgasbord of multiple men does!

To read more about Gabby’s interview, pick up the December issue of Essence magazine on stands now.