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TV Shows
Insecure
Is Normalizing Casual Sex For Black Girls
Sesali Bowen
Aug 7, 2017
TV Shows
Insecure
Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: "Hella Open"
Sesali Bowen
Aug 7, 2017
Movies
5 Stars You Had No Idea Were In
Detroit
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Aug 4, 2017
Movies
Detroit
Should Make You Question Power, Not People
Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, Detroit, is based on the events at the Algiers Motel in July 1967. Police forces tortured 9 people looking for a weapon that
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Movies
Yes, The Criticism Of This
Deadp
ool 2 Character Is About...
Rejecting Black features while claiming to champion diversity and the inclusion of Black people is a form of liberal racism that I want no parts of.
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TV Shows
Last Night's
Queen Sugar
Was A Tribute To Healthy Mascul...
Envisioning a world absent of toxic masculinity is a theme that makes Queen Sugar a nearly utopian drama about a Black family.
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Movies
Kidnap
Is Showing Us, Again, That Black Women Can Save T...
Black women can, and do, save the day. Hollywood is finally paying attention.
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Movies
Is This The Real Reason For The Incident That Inspired
Detroi...
Two white women were hanging out with a bunch of Black guys. That's never a good situation to be in when the police show up.
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TV Shows
Does Issa Have To Be Woke On
Insecure
?
Fictional Issa might not be the political activist we want her to be, and that's ok.
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Game of Thrones
How Lady Olenna Tyrell Won
Game Of Thrones
I don't mean to sound morbid, but can you say #DeathGoals?
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TV Shows
The Real Reason HBO's
Confederate
Is Triggering — And Wh...
Sometimes I can't look away from trauma. There, I said it.
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TV Shows
Insecure
Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: "Hella Questions"
Is this it for Issa and Lawrence?
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Pop Culture
I Think Amber Rose's Philly Comments Were Taken Out Of Context
Being pretty is a privilege. Looking different than the rest of your peers as a young person who wants to fit in, is not. Those two realities can exist wit
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Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
On
Snowfall
, The Women Are Just As Ruthless As The Men
Every week, it becomes more and more clear that women are being given the same amount of space in Snowfall’s drug game — for better and for worse.
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Sesali Bowen
Movies
What
The Incredible Jessica James
Gets Right About Mille...
In a moment where millennial misery is all the rage, it feels radical to see James come into the realization that she’s actually ok.
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Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
Queen Sugar's
Charley Is A Feminist Icon
Feminism is not monolithic, nor does it always come with a sign in the form of a sloganed t-shirt. Charley fits the bill.
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Sesali Bowen
Movies
Don't Expect The Same Jessica Williams In
The Incredible Jess...
Jessica Williams is woke bae if there ever was one, but don't count on that in her new Netflix movie.
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Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
Is Mary Jane Heading Into An Abusive Relationship?
I could very well be jaded by Michael Ealy’s role as a crazy stalker in The Perfect Guy, but Justin is triggering.
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TV Shows
Is This The Real Reason Kylie Jenner Is Doing Her Own Reality Show?
Kylie Jenner is a businesswoman, and I feel pretty confident that Life of Kylie is just that… business.
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TV Shows
So, Did Race Actually Matter On
The Bachelorette
?
For this franchise, love conquers all, including race. That’s their story, and they’re sticking to it.
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TV Shows
Ballers
Just Offered A Fresh Take On Infertility
The reality of infertility is a little less biased than what we see on TV.
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TV Shows
Why Tasha Is Low-Key The Best Character On HBO's
Insecure
The vitriol for Tasha reveals how many people still subscribe to the idea that women must compete with each other over the attention of men.
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Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
Insecure Season 2 Premiere Recap: "Hella Great"
Issa Rae is back and it's hella good.
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Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
We Need To Talk About The Rape Scene In FX's
Snowfall
Sexual violence is horrific no matter what gender you are.
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TV Shows
This "Romantic" Scene On
Being Mary Jane
Was Actually Scary
The conflation of unplanned resistance with romance is both cliché and dangerous.
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Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Women Weigh In On The Art of DJing
Find out what it’s really like to be a female DJ, how the craft has changed, and what they really think about your song requests.
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Sesali Bowen
Movies
How
Girls Trip
Avoided This Black Hollywood Cliché
Girls Trip presents a happy ending for Black women that does not include "getting a man."
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Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
The Bold Type
Just Showed My Worst Nightmare
What happened to Kat is every woman in media's worst nightmare.
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Pop Culture
Trading Rappers Is The Hip-Hop Card Game You Need
Trading Rappers is Spades meets the rap GOAT debate. Get ready to argue.
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TV Shows
There Were Some Serious Mommy Issues On Last Night's
Bachelor...
A remix of Beyoncé's "Daddy Lessons" is in order, if you ask me.
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