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Kathleen Newman-Bremang
Unbothered
Reclaiming Audre Lorde’s Radical Self-Care
Kathleen Newman-B...
May 28, 2021
Entertainment
How Tracey Deer Processed Her Trauma & Made The Best Coming-Of-Age Movie Of The ...
Kathleen Newman-B...
May 21, 2021
Unbothered
In Treatment’s
Uzo Aduba Finally Brings Depth To The “Black Lady ...
Kathleen Newman-B...
May 20, 2021
Unbothered
Bolu Babalola Breaks Down The Best (And Worst) Black Couples In P...
Bolu Babalola knows a thing or two about meet-cutes. She’s Twitter’s resident “romcomoisseur,” New Girl stan and general expert of love onscreen an
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Unbothered
This Conversation With Angela Bassett Will Clear Your Skin, Pay Y...
Angela Bassett always understands the assignment. Whether she’s tasked with stepping into the iconic pumps of a legend, ruling Wakanda with equal parts r
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Unbothered
Black Criticism Is Always Good — Especially When Black Art Isn’t
Welcome to “What’s Good,” where we break down what’s soothing, distracting, or just plain good in the streaming world with a “rooting for everybo
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Unbothered
20 Years Later,
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Is A Messy & Ridicu...
The Unbothered team rewatches Beyoncé in her film debut Carmen: A Hip Hopera for its 20th anniversary and gives our unfiltered thoughts. Beygency, please
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Relationships
We Asked Black Mothers & Daughters For Their Best Advice
The one piece of advice I remember my mother giving me was about money. Specifically, to make sure I had my own and to never rely on a man for it. Ever. As
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Unbothered
It’s Time We Start Refusing To Meet The Oscars In The Middle
The 2021 Oscars, like Tyler Perry’s speech, almost had me. The broadcast started with a beaming Regina Thee King doing what she does best: being fl
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High Impact
Black Women Love Weed Too, So Why Don’t We Get To Be Stoners Onsc...
Lighting up could be the answer to burning down the tropes that have sidelined Black women characters for decades. It's high time for new strains of stoner
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Fashion
Canada’s Biggest Fashion Awards Gala Is Back — And We Have ...
UPDATE: After being postponed last year due to the pandemic, the Canadian Arts & Fashion Awards (CAFA)’s seventh-annual ceremony is officially ba
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Unbothered
Why Issa Rae & Viola Davis’ Big Wins At The NAACP Image Awa...
It’s easy to root for everybody Black at the NAACP Image Awards, a show specifically created to honour the achievements of Black artists and entertainers
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Unbothered
Judas And The Black Messiah
Was a Start — Now, It’...
There’s a scene in the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film Judas And The Black Messiah that, even amidst all of its buzz and accolades, I don’t
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Entertainment
When Black Women “Make History” At Awards Shows, There’s Always A...
The story coming out of the 63rd Grammy Awards is about women. It’s the narrative that makes the Recording Academy and their choices look positive. I hea
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Unbothered
During Oprah’s Interview, Meghan Markle Shared The Moment S...
There were gasps on gasps. Bombshell after bombshell. Enough explosive comments to keep the world rapt and Twitter ablaze for two straight hours. And yet,
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Unbothered
The HFPA Did Us Dirty — Why The Golden Globes Diversity Statement...
There’s a gif of the late Chadwick Boseman from the 2019 Oscars I think about a lot. It’s from the moment Green Book wins Best Picture. As the mostly-w
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TV Shows
Where Is The Love? A Double Hot Take On
The Bachelor
, Race...
The Bachelor host Chris Harrison thought his now-infamous February 9 conversation with former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay had gone well. Moments after repe
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News
Two Generations, One Goal: A Conversation About Black Liberation
Activists Janaya Future Khan of the Black Lives Matter movement and Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, come together to discuss activism in 2021 and
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Entertainment
Where’s All The Good Kissing On TV?
Welcome to “What’s Good,” where we break down what’s soothing, distracting, or just plain good in the streaming world. What’s Good? Kissing. On t
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Movies
Malcolm & Marie
Hates Film Criticism — Here’s What Two Fil...
This post contains spoilers for Malcolm & Marie, now streaming on Netflix. A few minutes into Netflix’s Malcolm & Marie, Marie, played by Z
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Entertainment
Chadwick Boseman Loved Being A Superhero & That’s Why He Was Ours
This piece was originally published on August 31, 2020. Walking into the theatre to see Black Panther in February 2018 was the closest I’d come to going
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Culture
The Incredible Black Canadian Women You Should Know
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Unbothered
How The Racial Trauma Of 2020 F*cked With Our Bodies & What To Do...
lack people have had to deal with this shit our whole lives, long before George Floyd), and we need to use the proper language to describe it in order to h
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Entertainment
One Night In Miami’s
Secret Ingredient Is Its Elec...
It only takes moments into Regina King’s directorial debut before you realize — like really start to understand — what the term “actor’s director
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Unbothered
The Kamala Harris
Vogue
Cover Has Issues — & It’s Not Ju...
Kamala Harris’s position as the first Black woman Vice President-elect of the United States comes with an invisible tightrope. We’ve seen her wal
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Unbothered
Stacey Abrams Is Not A Magical Negro, So Stop Asking Her To Save ...
There’s a fine line between giving Abrams her flowers and the credit she deserves without tasking her to save the whole damn country, and last night, tha
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Unbothered
5 Black Women Share What They’re Demanding From 2021
2020 took more than it gave, shook more than it soothed, and damaged more than it healed. But in the debris left behind in its hellscape, embers of hope fl
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Unbothered
A Double Hot Take On
Bridgerton
, Race & Romance
This post contains spoilers for Bridgerton Season 1 and is based on the Netflix series alone, not the books. Bridgerton’s elevator pitch goes like
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Unbothered
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Star Taylour Paige On That Chad...
Taylour Paige thought she blew her audition for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. In the new Netflix film, the 30-year-old actress plays Dussie Mae, the young lo
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Unbothered
“We’re Collectively Traumatized:” Laverne Cox O...
'Promising Young Woman' is an emotional rollercoaster—so is this conversation with the Emmy-nominated actress and activist.
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