This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. Our society often

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I hope that your justice is likely to ask somebody why you are single as you ask somebody

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Welcome to a word, a podcast about race and politics and everything else. I'm your host,

Jason Johnson. In the late 1990s, we had a golden age for black films. For many African

Americans, it was the first chance to see black love and relationships on the screen,

and movies like Love and Basketball, The Best Man, and of course, Love Jones.

The film The Stargill Rins Tate Nealong is a pair of young aspiring creatives who

is lives of playing out the world of Chicago's black artistic middle class. After a few bumps

in the road, our couple finds their way to a Hollywood ending, a lifetime of poetry slams

and jazz clubs, and kufi hats. As they walk off into the sunset, or the rainy, romantic

Bohemian night.

But what happens to those folks in real life? Does that relationship last? If a long distance

romance becomes too hard, or they get busy with work, or they just decide that they want

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