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

views lifelong single people, especially women as miserable, defective, and doomed to

solitude, a stereotype that plagues black single women. But it's a time to accept that

marriage isn't everyone's destiny, and that some people are happier living alone.

I hope that you're just as likely to ask somebody why you are single as you ask somebody

why you are married. Black middle-class single and thriving coming up on a word with

me, Jason Johnson. Stay with us.

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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

of Stargla Renn's Tate Nealong is a pair of young aspiring creatives who was 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

in jazz clubs and kufi hats as they walk off into the sunset or the rainy romantic bohemian

night.

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