Exclusive: La La On Why She Doesn’t Allow Her Son To Have Instagram, Virtual Friendsgivings, And How So-Called “Thirst Traps” Are Empowering

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Exclusive: La La On Why She Doesn’t Allow Her Son To Have Instagram, Virtual Friendsgivings, And How So-Called “Thirst Traps” Are Empowering

We talked to La La Anthony about virtual friendsgivings, upcoming projects, centering women's stories as a producer, parenting a teen in the tech age, and the power of thirst traps.

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Leonard Randolph Wilkens was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 28, 1937, son of an African American father and white mother. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section, one of the toughest sections in the city, where he endured many hardships, including the loss of his father at a young

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