LaDawn Black
LaDawn Black is a relationship expert, author and Radio/TV personality.
Black is also a published author with two top-selling relationship guides: Stripped Bare: The 12 Truths That Will Help You Land the Very Best Black Man (One World/Ballantine) and Let’s Get It On: 15 Hot Tips and Tricks to Spice Up Your Sex Life (One World/Ballantine). Black’s latest book and her first novel is TEASE: Steamy Short Stories (One World/ Ballantine). Stripped Bare was named one of the 10 Best Non-fiction Books by AOL Black Voices and her latest book TEASE was a nominee for an African American Literary Award in erotica.
Black is an online relationship coach for match.com, yahoo.com, happenmag.com, blackandmarriedwithkids.com, essence.com, blackpeoplemeet.com and blackmeninamerica.com. Black has contributed to or been profiled by Essence, Ebony, JEWEL, Heart & Soul, Upscale, Glamour, Men's Health, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Magazine.
In addition to her own radio show, books and articles, Black has been a relationship expert for 30 Dates in 30 Days Essence magazine's online dating show, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, NPR, The Wendy Williams Show, The Bill Cunningham Show, Fox News and many other local/national radio and television programs.
She resides in Baltimore with her two very best men JB and Alec and her new princess twins Ava and Bella.
VIA: MSNBC
When she moved to the nation’s most prestigious address, Michelle Obama’s husband told her that rough times were ahead. The country was in recession, people were out of work, the political parties were in open warfare — and the man who was going to be blamed for it all was President Barack Obama.
But you won’t hear the first lady utter a peep of complaint.
“The truth is, there are a lot of folks who are hurting. And there’s no way I’m going to sit here and complain; I’m sitting in the White House,” Michelle Obama told TODAY’s Matt Lauer during an exclusive, far-ranging White House interview that aired Wednesday.
It’s just over a year since Michelle Obama set up housekeeping at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And while she’s been much in the spotlight during that time, she maintains that she’s still the same person she always was.
“I still see myself as Michelle Obama, the girl who grew up in the South Side of Chicago — Marian and Fraser’s daughter. I’ve got this husband who does these interesting things — and I’m Malia and Sasha’s mother,” she said.
Watch her interview below:
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