Skip navigation!
ADVERTISEMENT
Discover
Watch
Shop
+More
United Kingdom
Switch To
United States
Germany
France
Australia
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
The BET Awards Used To Lead; Now They're Falling Behind
Sesali Bowen
25 Jun 2018
Pop Culture
Twitter Is Pissed About How The BET Awards Treated Ella Mai
Sesali Bowen
25 Jun 2018
Pop Culture
The BET Awards Look Different This Year & Here's Why
Sesali Bowen
25 Jun 2018
Pop Culture
The Rise Of The Emo Rapper
We are seeing an emergence of rappers who are letting their emotions take up a lot of space in their music.
by
Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
The Soothing Effect Of
The Bold Type
's White Feminism
The Bold Type is the latest soft-woke offering for women, and by far my favorite.
by
Sesali Bowen
Movies
Ocean's 8
Uplifts Black Women In The Best Way
Black women were well-protected STEM geniuses in the best heist movie of the year.
by
Sesali Bowen
Advertisement
ADVERTISEMENT
Pop Culture
Red Table Talk Is The Best Thing To Happen To Facebook
Jada Pinkett-Smith's new web series that she hosts with her mother and daughter, Willow is honestly my main motivation for logging into Facebook now.
by
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Okay Beyhive, Let's Go Over Everything We Know About OTR II
There's a club, one of the biggest stages ever, and two babies that are not Sir and Rumi Carter, just to name a few of the things included in the OTR II to
by
Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
So This Is What Kerry Washington Is Doing Post
Scandal
The woman formerly known as Olivia Pope just helped produce a teen drama that you can watch right now.
by
Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
What The Rising Interest In Ballroom Culture Really Means For QTPOC?
But how is the new wave of exposure for ballroom culture actually impacting the queer communities of color?
by
Sesali Bowen
Music
Kanye West Isn't Afraid To Keep Up With The Kardashian On
Ye<...
Kanye West isn't afraid to say what we're all thinking about his famous extended family on his new album.
by
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
How To Properly Stan A Problematic Fave Like Kanye West
They say you can’t help who you love. This applies to friends, lovers, and sometimes, our favorite celebrities. But there's a right way to do it.
by
Sesali Bowen
Entertainment
Nicki Minaj Says She’s Dating Eminem & I Don’t Believe Her
Nicki Minaj is constantly trolling us about her relationships. I'm not falling for it.
by
Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
Being Serena
Lets A Black Woman Address Women Having "It...
Being Serena offers a perspective on Black motherhood and Black womanhood that is absolutely necessary right now.
by
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
This New Study Proves That Hollywood Does
Not
Get Inters...
We've been focusing on gender and racial representation while major studios have drastically decreased the number of LGBTQ characters in their films.
by
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
A History Of The Obamas In Hollywood
Looking back at Barack and Michelle Obama's ties to the television and film industry, their new production deal with Netflix doesn't come as a surprise.
by
Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
The Real Reason I Can't Finish
13 Reasons Why
I find myself annoyed beyond belief at the interactions surrounding those fateful tapes. But Clay is perhaps the most annoying of them all.
by
Sesali Bowen
Music
Janelle Monae: How An Outsider Became A Visionary Superstar
Janelle Monáe has become a mainstream commodity with roles in two Oscar-worthy films. But with Dirty Computer, she recommits to the fringes of society, an
by
Sesali Bowen
Advertisement
ADVERTISEMENT
Pop Culture
Have Portrayals Of Black Motherhood On Screen Ever Reflected Real...
Representations of Black motherhood in pop culture always sit in the realm of super aspirational or bastions of malaise and trauma.
by
Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
Why This
Dear White People
Lesbian Narrative Is So Impor...
Dear White People subtly reminded us that femme erasure is real, both within and outside of LGBTQ communities.
by
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Why Meghan Markle's Scattered Past Shouldn't Matter
The racist and sexist undertones of the query into Meghan Markle's past are unnecessary, even if she's marrying a prince.
by
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Kanye West & The History Of Hip-Hop Philosophers
Responses to Kanye West's recent tweets are an opportunity to look at the history of free thinking rappers, and how we treat them.
by
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Two Years After
Lemonade
, Beyoncé's Agenda Is Still All-...
Beyoncé wrapped her super Black Coachella set on the eve of the two year anniversary of Lemonade, her Blackest album yet.
by
Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
How
Scandal
Brought Black Twitter To Life Every Thursday
Scandal's Black "galdiators" invented Twitter fingers.
by
Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
What
Scandal
Meant To These Black Actresses
Scandal opened the floodgates for Black women in television. A few of those actresses told us what the show and Olivia Pope meant to them.
by
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
This Is Why Chrissy Teigen Is Suddenly Obsessed With Llamas
Chrissy Teigen is trying to make #LlamaButt a thing for the cutest reason.
by
Sesali Bowen
Music
Cardi B's
Invasion Of Privacy
Is The Latest Tribute To F...
There's a reason the image of Cardi B. putting bleach in her boyfriend's cereal is so satisfying.
by
Sesali Bowen
Music
Should Kris Jenner Really Manage Black Artists?
There is no denying that she would be great at managing artists like Kanye West and Travis Scott, but what would it say about white gatekeeping and approrp
by
Sesali Bowen
Movies
I Rewatched
Beetlejuice
& Did Not Enjoy Tim Burton's Wei...
Tim Burton's creativity comes to a screeching stop when it's time to imagine people of color in the afterlife.
by
Sesali Bowen
Music
Why Cardi B.'s New Video Deserves A Deeper Look
Her new video is pretty, glossy, but still very hood, and that's ok.
by
Sesali Bowen
Advertisement
ADVERTISEMENT
More Stories
ADVERTISEMENT