Black Dating: Dating service targets blacks
TAMPA -- Natalie Everett's small-business venture began with a question from her friends: Why can't I find Mr. Right? Everett, a 29-year-old lawyer, made it her business to find the answer.Everett's Professionally Unique opened at 4409 W. El Prado Blvd. in November. The dating service targets black professionals, providing matches by viewing videotapes as well as events and weekend jaunts for mingling and networking."It was a discussion...
Black Dating: Poll underscores a change in attitude
American teens view interracial dating, once a rarity in American society, as 'no big deal', a USA TODAY Poll shows. More than half of teens who have dated have gone out with someone of a different race or ethnicity, and in most cases neither their classmates nor their parents have minded Dating Experiences and attitudes (based on 496 teens who have dated) Have dated someone of another race All 57% Whites 47% Blacks 60% Hispanics 90% Have not,...
Black Dating: STRIKE A MATCH
CERTAIN UNATTACHED people in this town would rather be shot -- so to speak -- than go searching for companionship at clubs, pubs or any of the other traditional singles haunts. Suzanne Smith is such a person. An advertising copywriter for a downtown bank, 28-year-old Smith had herself shot last June by Susan Hendrickson When the deed was done, Hendrickson switched off the video camera, rewound the tape and played it back. "At first I looked at myself and said, 'Is that...
Black Dating: FINDING THE RIGHT LOOK TO ATTRACT MR. RIGHT
This year, the dress is Donna Karan. The perfume is a $45 bottle of Pleasure. The dream is the same as it is every year: land a well-educated, upwardly mobile black man.Forget Valentine's Day. For many of the area's single black women, the biggest romantic fantasy day of this year is Sunday. At 7 p.m., to be exact, the beginning of the annual Black and Puerto Rican Caucus dinner and ball.``It brings out a different caliber of man,'' said...
