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Studies.

They tell us what to eat, how to exercise, and which of our favorite things are giving us cancer?

All of them. But with new.

Studies coming out every day, sometimes it's hard to keep up. Luckily, though, we've got Dulce Sloan in our brand new segment Studies Show.

Hi Friends.

This week's studies are all about relationships, specifically romantic relationships. Everybody wants one, especially me. I thought I was in one until he told me that his gifts were just Amazon packages because he's my male man.

Hmm, all right.

I can tell when somebody's playing hard to get, And thanks to new studies, we're learning all sorts of things about relationships, like this one, which shows that the only thing gold diggers are mining for is French frogs.

According to a new study, many women are choosing free meals over relationships. The study in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science says up to a third of women have engaged in a foodie call. It's when a person sets up a date with somebody they have no romantic interest in off of a free meal.

That's right.

Studies show a third of all dates are just people trying to eat for free, So fellas, sometimes that eggplant emoji just means I'm in the.

Move to eat eggplants.

There's only one emoji that always means sex, and it's the hockey net because you're about to score and it's nice and wide. And if you're trying to figure out what's going to happen to your relationship after the first date, we got studies for that too.

Have you ever witnessed a couple making out in public and thought get a room? A surprising new study found that the amount of affection between you and your partner may determine whether or not a marriage will last. And we're talking about public displays of affection.

They found the couples.

Who were overly affectionate from the start of their relationship maybe more likely to divorce.

So PDA couples are more likely to break up.

Ha, that's what you get.

Always getting a third base in the stationary isle of Walgreens. Get your mouth off each other, trying to pick a birthday car for my grandma.

I don't need y'all.

Look at all the envelopes, And why do people have to make out in public? I haven't seen each other in a decade. He just got back from the back room, not Afghanistan. Although if you did just come back from Afghanistan, thank you for your service.

Get it wet. But if you want to keep your relationship.

Healthy, this last study shows a little jealousy can go along way.

Smart device snooping and something more people do than will admit. But consecretly scanning your partner's phone actually help your relationship, a new study says maybe. According to his study from the University of British Columbia and the University of Lisbon, about twenty five percent of the participants said that their relationship got stronger after they or their significant other were

Ahhh yeah you hear that, damn row.

I wasn't snooping. I was strengthening the relationship. Okay, you're going to complain that our face id you in your sleep, Well, if.

You don't want that to happen, stop leaving your.

Face outfit.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have ordered several packages to my apartment and I have to have dinner ready for when my man drops them off.

You'll say, slow than every money my back.

As you know, March is Women's History Months. Yes, it's the one month when Mike Pants can't be alone with a calendar. And to help us celebrate, we're joined by our senior women's history correspondent.

You'll say slowan everybody.

They'll say, hello, happy Women's History Months.

Happy, it would be happy if you got me a gift.

Well, another one.

I just got you a gift for Black History Months.

Yeah, because I'm black in February and in March I'm a woman.

Oh no, but that's not fair. Okay, So then when do I get a.

Gift in April? Because you're a fool anyway, Trevor.

Have you ever wondered why women don't get the historic credit they deserve? The sexism statues, Trevor, women don't have as many statues as men. In fact, nationwide, only eight percent of outdoor statues are of women.

Wow, how did you know that statistic?

I drank a snappook. I read what Internet come on dot, and I've seen it for myself.

I was walking through Central Park the other day under duress, and I saw statues of Alexander Hamilton, Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare, all famous men from history. But it comes to there's only two statues in Central Park, Alice in Wonderland and Mother Goose, which makes no damn sense. Alice is just a white girl who took Molly, And why does Mother Goose get a statue?

All she did was a ghost.

I don't think that's right.

Fine, she made love to No, that's what okay?

Anyway, do say I'm lost?

How does having more statues.

Help, because Trevor statues help us remember history when you walk past the statue and you're like, oh, yeah, MLK did have a dream.

Thomas Jefferson was a complicated individual.

And when you don't honor women the same way you honor men, you're leaving them out of history.

That's true.

Well, at least at least women have the Statue of Liberty, that's one of the most famous statues in the world.

That doesn't count.

We need statues of real women, not some giant French bitch holding ice cream. Now, someone like Tony Morrison, the first black woman to win.

The Nobel Prize for.

Literature, or someone like Francis Perkins, the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet or someone like Beyoncet, the first woman to be beyond set. Why doesn't she have a statue? I mean she's already standing like a statue.

She's ready. This is actually a great idea.

But I hope you understand building thousands of statues of women is going to be difficult. I mean, statues are expensive. You know this is gonna be a project that's gonna take a lot of time.

I've already done, at, Trevor, what I've designed one statue to symbolize all women, their power, their mystique, a flawless avatar of womanhood that anyone can look at and see themselves.

Don't say that that's a statue of.

You, Oh, Trevor, I'm touched that you can see me in that art.

No, it's literally you. It has your name on it. So why are you holding a baby? You don't have kids.

That baby symbolizes America, Okay, which women have been carrying.

For for Joe Loah Alpha.

Now I'm kidding this it is Elvis baby. Because that's some history. I want to make everybody show me right back, Black women, we gave you Oprah, beyonceying and all your favorite reaction means. I've heard people say they like their women like they like their coffee, strong black and hot enough to give you second degree burns. Care for what you wish for, Darius. But the thing is, not all black women are strong, and even the ones that are strong aren't.

Just that.

We like doors open for us too, especially with someone with biceps like Michael B.

Jordan, abs like Michael B. Jordan's hair like Michael B. Jordan.

But unfortunately, the strong black women's stereotype is ingrained in American culture. It has a long history, about as old as Morgan Freeman and Betty White combined. Now you may be wondering what is a strong black woman. It's the idea that black women are emotionally resilient, naturally selfless, too proud to ask for help, and can succeed with no resources. So basically every character played by Viola Davis. The irony is the strong black woman's stereotype was started by black

Ooh My Life, I had to fight them.

And how can we forget Ghosts where Whoopy Goldberg literally has to let a white man use her body to rub foreheads with his fiance. Even when black women only have one line, it's strong as hell, or you will be moved. Damn at least let her say hello. But tool say, what's wrong with being perceived as strong? Isn't it a good thing?

No?

Not if black women destroy their mental and physical health trying to live up to it, And not if people think black women are so strong they make them do all the work on their own. Look at Stacy Abrams, She helped Democrats win Georgia, and before you knew it, she was being asked to fix vaccine distribution, the New York subway.

And Kim and Kanye's marriage.

The stereotype even reaches the doctor's office. Black women are less likely to be properly diagnosed, they have a much higher maternal mortality rate, and they're less likely to be believed about their.

Symptoms and pain.

So a black woman basically has to be a doctor to know everything that's going on with her body and then convince another doctor.

That that's what's happening.

I was in a car accident, I have contusions, lacerations and internal bleeding. Get me a morphine drip and prep surgery stack. We'll get you a couple of band aids and you'll be fine. What So, the next time you see a black woman struggling at work or trying to lift the box, help her. Don't just stand there like you're about to see wonder woman in action.

In fact, if you're.

In the New York area, I'm moving this week and I could use some help moving my couch because I'll be damned if I'm gonna pull my back lifting my own couch.

Hello, friends.

Hispanic Heritage Month just wrapped up. But before we go, I want to talk about reggaton and if you don't know what it is, you've probably heard the unmistakable beat of reggaton before, especially if you have upstairs neighbors.

Can you keep it down up there? I will not like this song.

The rest of this music go back as far as the seventies and as far south as Panama. It could have started further south, but the beach is so big they don't fit to the canal. It was here in the nineteen eighties when music artists started putting Spanish lyrics over Jamaican dance hall songs, creating the new sound of reggae and Espanol. And honestly, I'm glad I wasn't there, because watching Spanish words and dance hall music talking together for the first time not even too sexy to handle.

In nineteen eighty five, El Hanadadan moved.

To New York City, where he would again spreading early reggaetone in the club. It almost didn't happen, though, because while he was in New York, el Hanadan also pursued a degree in business administration in an effort to get a real job.

You have to wonder what if that path had worked out.

He'd beat an office going Ernstannan el Handadan speaking how may I direct your call? Thankfully, he was sucked back into music, hosting parties and performing. In nineteen ninety he put out the song to Boom Boom, a tribute to the power of the Pisse.

To Boom Poom, Mommy, Mommy, No Man and El Henadle's cover blew up.

It was a hit in Mainland America in Puerto Rico and spread to Central and South America. The music was spreading so fast it would have made COVID jealous. Not too far from Brooklyn, on Long Island, the defining beat of reggaetone, the dem bot rhythm, was popularized by Panamanian rapper Nando Boom. The sound was originally created by Jamaican dancehall musician Chaparank, who looks like if Blade became a DJ instead of fighting vampires.

From there, the sound moved to a for Long Island, Puerto Rico.

And here's where all the Panamanian and New York ingredients finally mixed together to make something special like Sofrito for your ears. It took over a club called The Noise, founded by the Quincy Jones and reggaetone DJ Negro. He had been selling hot dogs on the street to get by and then had an idea.

To start a club.

It was there that the genre became known as l underground and created a whole new generation of artists like Edy Quinton. They also popularized reggaetones Moe famous dance at Ale.

Oh I Know this dance.

This is just me in two thousand fives. This is the dance you do when you don't want to pay for drinks. At one point, Puerto Rico's government cracked down on l underground and tried to regulate the lyrics and bettio dance moves, but all that.

Did was make l underground more popular.

This was like when your parents tell you not to date somebody, but then that person gets ass. I'm sorry, mama, you make some good points, but I could wash clothes off his stomach. Later, the genre exploded all the remaining stream with the release of the hit Sog Gasolina by Daddy Yankee in two thousand and four, and Daddy Yankee was everywhere MTV, Time Magazine, even the campaign trip. I just want to say thank you, Daddy Yankee.

That's right. You know a genre is big when the old white Republicans start calling for a little while.

Reggaeton was huge, but then record companies moved on and it disappeared in much of America, which basically means most Americans thought it.

Didn't exist anymore.

Were like a baby who falls for peekaboo, but with Latin music. But even as America forgot about it. Reggaeton went through a rebirth in Many. Ain't Colombia the city you recognized from Narcos. Colombian artists like Jave, Alvin Raycon, and Carol g gave reggaeton a new, more mainstream sound with lyrics that focus less on violence and more on sex and romance. Like if neo became neo. It grew and grew in popularity until America caught on.

Again with Yes.

That's right, who is Foncie and Daddy Yankee took over the globe Des Basito It was number one for sixteen weeks. This song was so popular even a racist for learning Spanish, come o say d say, go back to your own country. And since Desposito, reggaetne has kept its hold in America, which is great because this is a genre that is still evolving and becoming more exclusive.

You know, it grew out of a.

Rich Hispanic heritage of Oh seriously that neighbor again?

Hey, sorry about before, but can you actually turn it up?

Everyone downstairs started dancing and I just want to keep the party going.

Okay, I don't know how you got in here, but sure we turned it out.

Please thank you, No, thank you.

You can get out now.

O friends, I'm Atlanta raised celebrities do a face mom now. Atlanta has been called many things, the black mecca, Wakanda, a black utopia.

It's basically the opposite of Portland, Oregon. But does the aid limp up to the hype.

I'm at con City Market to tak a fellow, APLI and a cultural curator, Bang Joiner of Atlanta Influences Everything to find out.

My name is Banged Joiner, co founder of Atlanta Influences Everything, which is a civic minded creative consultancy known for a popular phrase and shirt in Atlanta.

You said a lot of it sounds like a very Atlanta thing because it sounds like you got a bunch of like slashes on your business.

Like do you also DJ?

Nope, But there's a DJ in this story.

There's always a DJ. There's always a DJ. Okay.

We've been talking about this question for decades as black people who live in Atlanta or who are from Atlanta.

Is Atlanta of black utopia?

I don't know if I would say utopia. We're still in America. Black mecca, black utopia, Wakanda.

Uh, all of the things.

It's a place where where black people are comfortable. Utopia makes it seem like, you know, ain't no crime and you know, ain't no problems.

You know what I'm saying.

Well, it is interesting because where your story is run the pull up and we're at Pont City Market. But you know, and I know for a long time on this backstreet, the streets be very sketchy.

Man, It's crazy you say that because the other piece of that meant with the name of the Kroger that was right here.

Oh yes, And I don't care how I know y'all call it beltline proger.

It's murder Kroger. We don't care. And when they try to change it if we call it murder proger.

So this is a multi layered thing.

Yeah, there are the perceived streets paid with gold for black people to achieve whatever they are trying to achieve without a barrier. But there's also so like multi layered classism here too.

That's just how black it is. You know, it's aggressively.

Black where ITA's tribal like Wakanda, it's a safe black place to be black. And then you have a fair shot to make it what you want.

It to be do you think that black people here have a different experience and black people from other places because we've seen generations of black wealth and black at higher education and just upward morbility for black people.

It is rooted in the black narrative kind of going back to w eb the Boy and Booker T.

Washington's debate on blackness that took.

Place on Atlanta University Center campus. So yeah, and if we want to tell that narrative all the way up. But if you look, none of these other black cities have anything like the Atlanta University Center.

Right, there are four.

HBCUs historically black college universities in Atlanta. It's Morris Brown Clark, Atlanta's Film and Morehouse and so you know, as people grew up here to see not only one black school but four black university.

Yeah, and so it's that post secondary education that Oakland, Chicago, Detroit, they don't have the more House and spell many thing. And I think along with the consistent black mayors, yes, that became the attraction is the.

Fact that Atlanta has had black mayors for forty some odd years. Has that made a significant impact on the city.

Most definitely the mayor that kind of set everything off.

Maynard Jackson he put.

Forth those politicies and took that risk. He understood that police, chief, police force, superintendent, teachers, everything that the public sector could touch, that that also had to be on mission like what he saw, and if he couldn't get buy in from the working class people in those sectors, that this was the mission.

Got to get along. So we have to understand.

So, I mean, that's a very interesting thing for you to come for someone to come in and just go, especially a black man to come in and go, Okay, we got a chance. Yeah, So compared to the rest of the country, is it easy to be black in Atlanta?

So the way we engage with blackness, the way we engage with white people, we didn't know that it was odd until you start traveling or you get these other stories.

You're like, man, you talking to white people like.

That, Like, yeah, yeah, you just have more confidence, whether it's louder, whether it's quiet, confidence than that average black person. And we don't know that that's odd until people start exposing us to the rest of the world.

It's like, oh, you'll move like that where you're from.

I think white Atlantans are unique in their experience with blackness, for better or for worse, Atlanta seems to have become a safe place for that.

As somebody who grew up here from here, what do you love about Atlanta?

The ability just to be my black self?

You know whatever I soldo.

Rules work that.

So there you have it.

Atlanta might not be Rikarda, but it is a city where you can just see your black self.

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