Demi deletes her social media platforms because she is being stalked; her long-awaited trip to Mozambique is a GD disaster.  
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Unhinged

Demetria L. Lucas, cultural critic and author of A Belle in Brooklyn and Don't Waste Your Pretty, muses on pop culture shenanigans, dating and relationships, and everything worth watching on any size screen. #ratchetandrespectable
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Demi heads to NYC; Dinner with Bevy; Ashanti gives up her engagement deets; Meth and Michael Ealy join forces;  Claire Huxtable heads to the Gilded Age; reviews of “Clipped” and “HOD” and “Bridgerton”; the Brooklyn Bishop sentenced 
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Fake Gucci

Demi heads to ABFF for Ratchet x Respectable;  an amazing weekend for TV (Bridgerton, The Boys, The Dragons); ABFF recap, including Denzel’s Retrospective. 
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Club Sandwich

Demi heads to ABFF; Non-spoiler reviews of "Bad Boys 4", 'Queenie", and "The Black Hamptons"; Ursher is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award; Naomi Campbell heads to the V&A; this summer; HU revokes Diddy’s (honorary) degree; Michael Rainey Jr. (aka “Tariq”) is sexually assaulted. 
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Good Will

Demi's last days in Case Town; Lupita covers Glamour’s global June issue… to talk about cats?; Martin Lawrence insists he is “healthy as hell”; Gayle King shamelessly hits on Lenny Kravitz (who hasn’t had sex in 9 years); Mama Wallace wants to slap Diddy; A Black Republican, married to a white woman, advocates for segregation *deep sigh*. 
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Friend

Demi’s adventures in Cape Town; Rolling Stone’s 6 month Diddy investigation; Kanye sued for sexual harassment; The Dream’s former assistant sued him for sex trafficking and assault. 
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Unhinged

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