Upfront Marital Technologies Inc.

Upfront Marital Technologies Inc. The AI-Powered Dating App For Black Professionals to Heal Before Relationship.

02/17/2026

We keep asking men to lead without ever asking who taught them how.
Leadership isn’t instinct. It’s learned, modeled, and nurtured.
And most of our boys were never given the curriculum.

This conversation isn’t about blame.
It’s about context.
And healing what was never taught.





02/13/2026

“Be ready.”
That’s it. That’s the bar.

UpFront doesn’t reward curiosity.
It rewards intention.
It asks questions most of us were never asked.
It opens doors most of us never knocked on.

If you’re serious about growth, healing, and moving with purpose,
this experience will meet you there.





02/11/2026

This work is hard.
Not trendy hard. Not motivational hard.
Soul-stretching, vision-testing hard.

And still, I’m grateful.
Grateful for the chance to serve.
Grateful for the people who trust the process.
Grateful to build something that actually matters.

Purpose isn’t easy.
But it’s worth it.





11/22/2025

Dr. Joy DeGruy powerfully traces how the dehumanization of slavery continues to shape how Black people experience love, ownership, and connection today.

In this emotional clip, she explains how generations of Black men and women were stripped of bodily autonomy, intimacy, and identity, turning human connection into survival and survival into detachment. From being forced to breed like property to finding humanity in moments of brutality, Dr. DeGruy reveals how deep these wounds go—and why healing them is essential for love to flourish again.

This is not just history—it’s the emotional inheritance we are still working to overcome.

🎧 Watch the season finale of UpFront w/ John Graham featuring Dr. Joy DeGruy. A powerful discussion on trauma, love, and the work of reclaiming ourselves.

👉🏾 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/nnWOxuFY4Kc

11/19/2025

What does love look like when it can be taken from you at any moment? Dr. Joy DeGruy paints a heartbreaking picture of what it meant to love, marry, and parent under slavery.

In this deeply emotional clip, she reflects on how enslaved men and women fought to hold onto love and dignity in a system designed to strip them of both. “There is nothing worse,” one enslaved man wrote, “than to be enslaved and to be the husband and father of the enslaved.”

Dr. DeGruy invites us to look unflinchingly at this truth—to understand how the trauma of separation, control, and survival still shapes how we love and protect one another today.

🎧 Watch the season finale of UpFront w/ John Graham featuring Dr. Joy DeGruy. A powerful discussion on history, healing, and reclaiming love within the Black community.

👉🏾 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/nnWOxuFY4Kc

11/17/2025

Before love can thrive, the environment has to be right. Dr. Joy DeGruy breaks down why so many of us are unprepared for healthy relationships—not because we lack desire, but because we’ve never been taught how to build the foundation for love.

This clip challenges us to rethink what it really takes to create healthy Black relationships. It’s not just about attraction or chemistry—it’s about community, family structure, and the emotional environments that shape who we are long before we start dating.

🎧 Watch the season finale of UpFront w/ John Graham featuring Dr. Joy DeGruy. A moving discussion on healing, emotional growth, and the environments that make love possible.

👉🏾 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/nnWOxuFY4Kc

11/16/2025

Dr. Joy DeGruy shares a powerful truth — we must become friends to marriage. In a world where divorce, disconnection, and individualism often dominate the conversation, she reminds us that healthy relationships thrive when the community chooses to nurture them.

This clip explores what it means to support the marriages around us, to speak life into love, and to rebuild the social infrastructure that protects Black love and family. As Dr. DeGruy says, one strong marriage can spark hope for an entire generation.

🎧 Watch the season finale of UpFront w/ John Graham featuring Dr. Joy DeGruy. A heartfelt conversation on love, legacy, and the power of community.

👉🏾 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/nnWOxuFY4Kc

11/14/2025

“What happens when generations grow up seeing families without marriage? When commitment feels like a luxury instead of a norm? Dr. Joy DeGruy shares a stunning story from London where many Black women no longer believe marriage with Black men is even possible.

In this emotional and thought-provoking clip, Dr. DeGruy and John Graham unpack how normalizing the absence of marriage in the Black community has impacted identity, hope, and family dynamics worldwide. The conversation dives into how history, socioeconomics, and emotional conditioning continue to shape how Black men and women view love, partnership, and family today.

🎧 Watch the season finale of UpFront w/ John Graham featuring Dr. Joy DeGruy. A powerful discussion on healing, history, and rebuilding Black love.

👉🏾 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/nnWOxuFY4Kc

11/13/2025

When we talk about love and relationships in the Black community, we can’t ignore history. John Graham breaks down how post-emancipation realities, class divides, and access shaped the way we see love, value, and each other.

Four and a half million people were freed, but most didn’t have resources, opportunity, or land. That legacy still echoes in how we date, connect, and build family today.

🎧 Watch the full season finale of UpFront w/ John Graham featuring Dr. Joy DeGruy. A powerful conversation on love, healing, and rebuilding the village.

👉🏾 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/nnWOxuFY4Kc

11/10/2025

We’ve normalized the absence of Black men in conversations about family, and it shows. Dr. Joy DeGruy reminds us that our children didn’t raise themselves, and our families didn’t form in isolation. Healing our community means inviting our brothers ✊🏾 back into the room.

🎧 Watch the season finale of UpFront w/ John Graham featuring Dr. Joy DeGruy. A powerful conversation on love, legacy, and rebuilding the village.

👉🏾 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/nnWOxuFY4Kc

10/31/2025

Real talk — we keep saying we want love, but everything about how we show up is attracting the opposite.
What if it’s not that love isn’t out there…
but that we’re not communicating the energy that draws it in?

At UpFront, we’re helping single Black professionals heal, align, and attract love that lasts — not just attention that fades.

✨ Heal first. Love forever.

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