Welp...lost another one brehs...Goodbye Tatyana Ali.

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Tatyana Ali Engaged and Expecting First Child

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Ashley Banks is all grown up!

Former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Tatyana Ali is engaged to Dr. Vaughn Rasberry — and the couple are expecting their first child, PEOPLE confirms.

“Planning our wedding has been so exciting, but when we found out we were expecting, our perspective shifted completely,” she told Entertainment Tonight, adding that the pair will tie the knot late this summer.

“We want our ceremony to really celebrate our newest blessing! Plus, I have the best wedding planner, Michael Russo. He’s making everything so fun and stress free!”

The actress, 37, met online about a year and a half ago.

“Vaughn and I met on eHarmony!” she told ET. “It was my first time dating online. We wrote letters for months before we decided to Skype. And then, of course, met.’

After dating, Rasberry wooed his lady with what she considers the “perfect” proposal. The actress recalled to ET how the pair went on a “45-minute hike in the Redwoods [in Yosemite, California],” which she “absolutely loves.” While in the forest her groom-to-be got down on one knee in a “picturesque clearing,” and popped the question.

“Just the two of us,” Ali added. “It was so thoughtful and perfect. We’re best friends.”


A lotta brehs hopes and dreams just got shelved...
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Vaughn Rasberry
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Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2009
B.A., Howard University, 2000
M.A., University of Chicago, 2001
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Vaughn Rasberry studies African American literature, global Cold War culture, postcolonial theory, and philosophical theories of modernity. As a Fulbright scholar in 2008-09, he taught in the American Studies department at the Humboldt University Berlin and lectured on African American literature throughout Germany. His current book project, Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His book questions the notion that desegregation prompted African American writers and activists to acquiesce in the normative claims of postwar liberalism. Challenging accounts that portray black cultural workers in various postures of reaction to larger forces--namely U.S. liberalism or Soviet communism--his project argues instead that many writers were involved in a complex national and global dialogue with totalitarianism, a defining geopolitical discourse of the twentieth century.

During World War II and the Cold War, his book shows, the United States government conscripted African Americans into the fight against Nazism and Stalinism. An array of black writers, however, deflected the appeals of liberalism and its anti-totalitarian propaganda in the service of decolonization. Richard Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, C. L. R. James, John A. Williams, and others remained skeptical that totalitarian servitude and democratic liberty stood in stark opposition. Their skepticism, Race and the Totalitarian Century contends, allowed them to formulate an independent perspective that reimagined the anti-fascist, anti-communist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the United States as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also as an ironic agent of Asian and African independence.

His article, "'Now Describing You': James Baldwin and Cold War Liberalism," appears in an edited volume titled James Baldwin: America and Beyond (University of Michigan Press, 2011). A review essay, "Invoking Totalitarianism: Liberal Democracy versus the Global Jihad in Boualem Sansal's The German Mujahid," appears in the spring 2014 special issue of Novel: a Forum on Fiction. In 2015, he published a book chapter, "JFK and the Global Anticolonial Movement," in The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy. He has another book chapter, "The 'Lost' Years or a 'Decade of Progress'? African American Writers and the Second World War," published in A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).

For Black History Month, he published an op-ed essay, "The Shape of African American Geopolitics," in Al Jazeera English.

An Annenberg Faculty Fellow at Stanford (2012-14), he has also received fellowships from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Vaughn also teaches in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and the programs in Modern Thought and Literature, African and African American Studies, and American Studies.

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I never had a chance anyway.

Dude looks a lil sweet tho....but white privilege gets him in. That hike he took her on...that's some cac type shyt. Sometimes us bruhs (and bruhettes) need to switch shyt up and be adventurous, outdoorsy and go against what's common in the black community. We need to eat more Greek yogurt, go camping, hiking, hunting, jet skiing, kyacking, and other cac related shyt. His different approach may have done it unless she just a c00n. When a black is a c00n...ain't shyt gonna matter.
 
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Weaver31 said:
I never had a chance anyway.

Dude looks a lil sweet tho....but white privilege gets him in. That hike he took her on...that's some cac type shyt. Sometimes us bruhs (and bruhettes) need to switch shyt up and be adventurous, outdoorsy and go against what's common in the black community. We need to eat more Greek yogurt, go camping, hiking, hunting, jet skiing, kyacking, and other cac related shyt. His different approach may have done it unless she just a c00n. When a black is a c00n...ain't shyt gonna matter.
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See, that what pissed me off the most. I been tried that...hiking, camping, rock climbing, obstacle course...nothing works.
Cac shyt...nikka shyt...nothing.
Where the fukk was my tatyana ali!?!?!

I'm startin to think that I just don't rate with people....period. I can't make a damn friend no matter what I do.
fukk it...if the problem is me...oh well...rollin solo forever.
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