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Dear Black People Happened On Twitter, But Not For The Reason You Think
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May 2, 2017
Pop Culture
The Funniest Memes From The Met Gala
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May 2, 2017
TV Shows
Coco Conners Is The Best Thing About
Dear White People
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May 1, 2017
Pop Culture
Why Katy Perry Isn't Going To Be Canceled
When you support Hillary and make music for young women, people find it in their hearts to look the other way on racial insensitivity.
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Pop Culture
Celebrating The Women Of Bad Boy Records
Some of my generation’s favorite female rappers, singers, and groups have connections to Bad Boy.
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TV Shows
R29 Binge Club:
Dear White People
We're recapping every episode of the new Netflix series "Dear White People"!
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Movies
The Sad, Unexpected Lesson In
Whitney: Can I Be Me
One of the strongest lessons I took from Houston’s story is to never doubt the power of female friendship.
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TV Shows
Is
Black-ish
Right About Reality Stars?
We consume reality television with feverish enthusiasm, despite what we think about the women who appear in them.
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Pop Culture
The Social Science Of Celebrities Attending Basketball Games
Why the public basketball game is a rite of passage for celebrity couples.
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Music
This Rising Generation Of Black Indie Singers Is Lit
These artists experiment with sounds and draw inspiration from both the past and the future.
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Pop Culture
Meet The Squad Who Joined Kim & Kourtney On Their Girls' Trip To ...
I put my best lurking skills to use and combed social media to try to identify all 12 of the women in Kim's epic "Girls Trip" group photo.
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TV Shows
The Best TV Podcasts For Those Of Us Who Can’t Get Enough O...
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Unbothered
5 Ways To Celebrate The One Year Anniversary Of
Lemonade
Given how much Lemonade has meant to so many people, there is more than a little bit of celebration in order on its anniversary.
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Movies
What We Can Learn From Showtime's
Burn Motherf*cker, Burn!
It seems naive to assume, or even hope, that the collective responses to racism should evolve when racism itself won’t.
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Pop Culture
Why We Should Care About The Peabody Awards & Its Winners
"Lemonade" and "Atlanta," among others, got the props they deserve.
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Movies
Unforgettable
Proves That Hollywood Is Still Uncomfortab...
Putting people of color in front of the camera just to figure out how to get them to blend in with everyone else is not the kind of diversity we need.
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Pop Culture
Time
's List Of The "100 Most Influential People In The W...
The publication just released their annual list of the 100 Most Influential People In The World and I’m happy to report that it reflects one of our great
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TV Shows
The OA
Theories Only Lead To More
OA
Theories
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6 Of The Most Inspirational Black Women On Instagram
There is a limitless supply of positivity on Instagram if you know where to look.
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Pop Culture
Which Female Rapper Represents Your Zodiac Sign?
Women who spit bars bring forth a diverse range of emotions, experiences, and personalities through their music and personas.
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Pop Culture
The Women Of Color Who Could Have Been
People's
Most Bea...
No shade to the iconic Julia Roberts, but "People" just missed a huge opportunity.
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Pop Culture
Coachella Not Your Thing? Try These Festivals Instead
If you’re interested in a music festival that is more diverse in style, musical genre, crowd, and cost options, you might want to check out some of these
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TV Shows
It's Finally Time For
Pretty Little Liars
To Put Us Out ...
Somewhere between Red Coat and the "Ravenswood" spin-off, it turned into the psycho stalker television version of a Wikipedia rabbit hole.
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Pop Culture
La La Anthony Will Be Just Fine
This is the same woman who literally wrote a playbook on love. If you don’t think she understands that loss is sometimes the end result of even the best
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Music
Everything Kendrick Lamar Says About Women On
DAMN.
My outlook on men like Kendrick is complicated and sometimes hypocritical, just like his views on women.
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TV Shows
I Tried Watching
Guerrilla
— & As A Black Woman, I Just ...
Too often in both politics and culture, non-Black women — allies or not — are uplifted at the expense of Black women, never in tandem.
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TV Shows
7 Questions We Have After The
Girls
Finale
The finale was polarizing, to say the least, and left us with some questions.
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TV Shows
Every Character of Color Who Appeared On
Girls
Using this as an excuse to rewatch the series, I decided to try to quantify how people of color have been represented on the show since its beginnings.
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Pop Culture
How This Plastic Surgeon Became A Hip-Hop Favorite
Doctors don't usually wear gold grills and have more followers than you, but Dr. Miami does.
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Pop Culture
The Real Beauty Of #BlackGirlMagic
Your goal shouldn’t be to figure out what Black Girl Magic is. The only thing you should be worried about is how to get some.
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