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Halloween Costumes Celebrating The Most Iconic Black Women In Pop Culture
Sesali Bowen
24 Oct 2020
Movies
The Most Badass Black Female Movie Heroines
Sesali Bowen
11 Feb 2019
Movies
Why Calling
Little
The New
13 Going On 30
Is Only Half Right...
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29 Jan 2019
Pop Culture
These Pop Culture Questions Need To Be Answered In 2019
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
The Biggest Celebrity Controversies Of 2018
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
How Cardi B Kept Her Foot On Our Necks For All Of 2018
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If Beale Street Could Talk,
It Would Praise Black Women
I’m still not over the intensely tender experience that is watching Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk. In her review of the film, my colleague
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Sesali Bowen
Movies
A Fat Girl Weighs In On The Beauty & Pain Of
Dumplin'
In the opening scene of Dumplin’, a young Willowdean “Will” Dickson cruises down a Texas road with her aunt Lucy (Hilliary Begley). They're in a
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
People Think Ariana Grande Is Using A Blaccent That I Don't Hear ...
Today is only my second full day as a Mocha Grande — the official name for Black fans of Ariana Grande — and life is coming at me really fast. Yesterda
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
The Golden Globes Film Nominations Are Dominated By People Of Colour
Members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have voted, and the Golden Globe nominations are officially here to honour the best of the best in this
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Cardi B Posts First Photo Of Baby Kulture
Since giving birth to her first child with husband Offset in July — named Kulture Kiari Cephus — Cardi B has taken a page out of Beyoncé’s book and
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Cardi B's Post-Breakup Glow-Up Is Coming & I Can't Wait
When I first heard the rumours that Cardi B and Offset were dating last year, I said a prayer to the trap gods and goddesses to bless their union. I couldn
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Trap Glazed: These Are The On Screen Dads That Black Girls Need
Black dads have been right in the thick of the black TV and film we've all enjoyed this year. In Starz’s smash series Power, Ghost (Omari Hardwick)
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Sesali Bowen
Movies
Robin Hood
Has Too Much Diversity — & Also Not Enough
Director Otto Bathurst has revisited Robin Hood — the fabled outlaw who steals from the rich and gives to the poor — and early critics are far from imp
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Sesali Bowen
Movies
You Have To See Mahershala Ali Be Bad & Bougie In
Green Book<...
If you not sure whether you can take another onscreen portrayal of racism, discrimination, and intolerance, I beseech you to make an exception for Peter Fa
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Sesali Bowen
Movies
The Crimes Of Grindelwald
Actually Needed A Gay Scene
If you follow her on Twitter, you know that J.K. Rowling prides herself on being a woke queen. She’s not perfect, but the brilliant mind behind the ever-
by
Sesali Bowen
Music
I Am… Sasha Fierce
Was Beyoncé's Worst Album
2018 marks 10 years since the release of Beyoncé’s third solo studio album, I Am… Sasha Fierce. In introducing us to her alter ego, Bey also offered u
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Sesali Bowen
Music
As Hip-Hop Ignores #MeToo, This All-Girl Record Label Is Creating...
TT the Artist has always been an innovator. Her music defies hip-hop genre expectations, and she isn’t afraid of making a statement. She appeared on a 20
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The Music Industry Doesn't Know What To Do With Men Like Tekashi6...
The music industry still hasn’t figured out a way to rectify the fact that some of the people who are allowed to step through its doors and flourish are
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Pop Culture
What I Learned About Drake After Trolling His 32nd Birthday Party
Drake turned 32 on Wednesday. But on Tuesday night, he threw a 2000s-themed birthday party that made those of us born in the the late ‘80s and early ‘9
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Should We Trust Rose IV You? A Beyoncé Mystery
If you open your Instagram app, close your eyes, and hold your phone up to your ear, you might hear a small buzzing sound. This is the sound of the Beyhive
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Bette Midler's Tweets Show Everything That's Wrong With White Fem...
The opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is loud and widely felt. It has pushed many to double down on their feminist values. A gaggle of Ho
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Trap Glazed: What It Means To Be Black In Comedy
Tiffany Haddish has once again proven herself to be a tickling delight on the big screen. The comedienne, who made her film debut in the 2017 smash hit, Gi
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Unfortunately, We
Do
Have To Care About Kanye's Politics
Kanye West, with his Make America Great Again hat in tow, is at it again. On Sunday he tweeted a picture of his red cap with a full caption about what it m
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Let's Call These Comments About True Thompson What They Are: Racist
Becoming a mother is a huge undertaking even in the most ideal circumstances. Khloé Kardashian has embraced this role in the thick of a huge cheating scan
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Sesali Bowen
Movies
Nappily Ever After
Gets To The Personal & Political Of B...
There is a hilarious moment in Black Panther when Okoye (Danai Gurira) — the general of Wakanda’s all-female and all-bald kingsguard — has to go unde
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Trap Glazed: What To Make Of Men Like Drake
There’s a chance that you’ve sensed a general feeling of heartbreak in the air over the past month or so. It’s because Drake — the Black heartthrob
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
The Emmys Snubbed People Of Colour & Laughed About It
You know that feeling when you’ve been called out or you’re really nervous about something, and your first instinct is to laugh? That’s how awarding
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
The Reparations Emmys Were Bittersweet
The Emmys probably feel a bit out of touch for many viewers. Seriously, who watches Patrick Melrose? But for black people, the Emmys may as well be a stati
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Trap Glazed: Why Black Biopics Matter
The Bobby Brown Story, which premiered on BET Tuesday night, opened with a scene of the R&B star (portrayed by Woody McCain) getting wheeled through t
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