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Spelling Bee Champ Zaila Avant-garde Might Be The Most Interesting Person In The...
Danielle Campoamor
11 Jul 2021
News
The Olympics Don’t Care About Black Athletes. They Never Did.
Erin Corbett
10 Jul 2021
Unbothered
As A Black Woman With IUD Trauma, I’m Making #FreeBritney My Business
Leslie Kay Jones
9 Jul 2021
News
Darnella Frazier Says Her Uncle Was Killed During A High Speed Po...
Just weeks after receiving a Pulitzer Prize special citation for filming the police murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis teenager Darnella Frazier wrote tha
by
Lydia Wang
Unbothered
Zola
Wades Deep Into The Mess & Manipulation Of An Interra...
“Y’all wanna hear a story about how me and this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” The now-famous opening refrain from A
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Unbothered
The Music Industry Has Failed Black Women Survivors
*Editor’s note: This piece contains incidents of rape and sexual assault. Please read with care. My lifelong experience in the music and entertainment in
by
Alexia Norton-Jones
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Movies
The Black Yeehaw Agenda Is Strong With Netflix’s Star-Studd...
Following the release of its original film Concrete Cowboys, Netflix is furthering the yeehaw agenda with yet another movie about Black cowboys, its new pr
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Ineye Komonibo
Books & Art
5 Things You Need To Know Before Travelling The World As A Black ...
The following is an extract from Black Girls Take World: The Travel Bible for Black Women with Boundless Wanderlust by Georgina Lawton Restriction of movem
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Georgina Lawton
Beauty
One Year Into Pull Up For Change, Has The Beauty Industry Really ...
It started with two middle-finger emojis. Last June, the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Derek Chauvin, with three other Minneapolis police officers
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Amanda Mitchell
Hot Book Summer
11 Phenomenal Summer Reads Chosen By Black Girls Book Club
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Black Girls Book ...
Entertainment
Lin Manuel Miranda Apologises For The Afro-Latinx Erasure Of
I...
Updated June 15, 2021: Upon seeing that his film had sparked a spirited discourse about anti-Blackness and colourism in the Latinx community, Lin Manuel M
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Megan Thee Stallion Is Back & Making Politicians Mad (Again)
After a brief hiatus, the hot girl coach is officially off the bench and back in the music game with a new single just in time for summer. Megan thee Stall
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Morgan Harper Nichols Was Just Diagnosed With Autism — Now She’s ...
Morgan Harper Nichols has been autistic since childhood, but it wasn’t until her recent diagnosis that things became clear for her. “Since I was young,
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Stephanie Long
Beauty
This £8.99 Body Lotion Totally Transformed My Dry Skin
Welcome to Beauty & The Beat, R29 Unbothered UK’s new beauty column. Each fortnight, we’re spilling the tea on the latest products made for
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Jessica Morgan
Unbothered
Naomi Osaka And The Necessity Of Refusal
On Monday, tennis champion Naomi Osaka announced that she was withdrawing from the French Open tournament in order to protect her mental health. Days pri
by
Breya Johnson
Unbothered
Brandy’s Black
Cinderella
Made The Impossible Possible I...
I swear I heard several million Black people scream through my computer monitor when Disney+ announced that it will finally stream Rodgers and Hammerstein?
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Vicky Mochama
Beauty
The Best High Street Beauty Brands For Women Of Colour
by
Jessica Morgan
Verified
Get In, Bestie. Saweetie Wants To Take The World For A Ride
Saweetie is extremely online. But you probably already know that if you follow her on any of her social media platforms, where she shows how fluent she is
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Olivia Harrison
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Entertainment
Jodie Turner-Smith On Anne Boleyn: She Was An Outsider, Just Like...
In a country with as tight a grip on the Tudor monarchy’s narrative as Britain, it’s not surprising that after dozens of depictions of the 16th century
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Kuba Shand-Baptiste
Beauty
Since The BLM Protests, Have Beauty Brands Made Any Real Strides ...
The day George Floyd was murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin is one we will never forget. It showed that racial injustice could no longer be denied. A
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Vanese Maddix
Unbothered
Reclaiming Audre Lorde’s Radical Self-Care
Around this time last year, on one of the many difficult personal days of the hellscape that was 2020, I walked through my door to find meticulously placed
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Kathleen Newman-B...
News
Darnella Frazier Remembers George Floyd: “I Still Hold The ...
One year ago, a young woman took out her phone on a street in Minneapolis to record a murder that caused a movement. Darnella Frazier, who was 17 at the ti
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Sarah Midkiff
TV Shows
The Underground Railroad
‘s Ending Is Teeming With Pr...
Spoilers are ahead. In Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad, viewers are ushered into an alternate reality in which the aforementioned railroad is
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
We Are All George Floyd
Editor’s note: We’ve republished this piece in light of the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death. This piece was originally publishe
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Marshall Roach
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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Kathleen Newman-B...
Unbothered
5 Lessons I Learned When I Chopped All Of My Hair Off
This time last year I chopped all of my hair off. I had spent years trying to fix the hair that was damaged through fear of not suiting short styles but it
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Jessica Morgan
Beauty
I Tried DIY Boho Locs For The First Time & I Have Thoughts
There are not many hairstyles I wouldn’t try. I’ve had weaves, braids, twist outs and wigs; I’ve worn my hair natural. But since hair sal
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Jessica Morgan
Beauty
This High Street Foundation Is So Good, I’m Going To Wear I...
Welcome to Beauty & The Beat, R29 Unbothered UK’s new beauty column. Each fortnight, we’re spilling the tea on the latest products made for
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Jessica Morgan
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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Kathleen Newman-B...
Unbothered
An Offering For Ma’Khia Khi’Riana Ty’lea Bryant, Who Deserv...
On April 20th, woven in-between the breaking news of Derek Chauvin’s conviction in the murder of George Floyd, TikToks of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant ma
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Amber J. Phillips
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