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Pop Culture
XXXtentacion & The Dangers Of Honoring Black Men Unconditionally
Sesali Bowen
Jun 27, 2018
Pop Culture
The BET Awards Used To Lead; Now They're Falling Behind
Sesali Bowen
Jun 25, 2018
Pop Culture
Twitter Is Pissed About How The BET Awards Treated Ella Mai
Sesali Bowen
Jun 25, 2018
Pop Culture
The BET Awards Look Different This Year & Here's Why
Find out more about the six recipients of this year's Humanitarian Hero awards at the BET Awards.
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Movies
SuperFly
Is A Nostalgic Reintroduction To Urban Fiction
For all the ways that SuperFly is woefully cliche, it is also a fun ride with a history of its own.
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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
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TV Shows
The Evolution Of LGBTQ+ Representation On This Black Reality Show
From messy best friends to main characters, Black reality has become an unlikely ally to LGBTQ+ communities.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Pop Culture
Enough About Roseanne — Let's Talk About Channing Dungey
Get to know the Black, female executive who put her foot down on Roseanne Barr's racism and canceled her show.
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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.
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Pop Culture
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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TV Shows
How
LHHATL
Star Tokyo Vanity Is Leaving Reality TV Shook
Tokyo Vanity is a breath of fresh air on a reality show where the script about body image is often pre-written.
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Movies
A Black Woman Quietly Saves The Day In
Fahrenheit 451
, P...
The new HBO film falls short on it's social justice commentary but Fahrenheit 451 got one thing right: Black women have the answers.
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Sesali Bowen
Books & Art
A
Black-ish
Book Is Here To Ease Your Pain From The Show
While things are looking bleak in the Johnson family home onscreen, a new book written by Rainbow Edwards-Barris gives us a heaping dose of family fun.
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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
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Movies
Gabrielle Union Is Not Here For Stereotypes In
Breaking In
Gabrielle Union was tired of seeing women on screen waiting around for men to save them.
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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.
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Sesali Bowen
TV Shows
What
Dear White People
Got Right About Hoteps
Dear White People is looking past "beautiful queens" and conspiracy theories to see hoteps for who they really are.
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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.
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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.
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Pop Culture
Iyanla: Fix My Life
Is Proof That Sometimes Our Aunties ...
Under the guise of healing and self-improvement, Iyanla Vanzant fosters an interesting relationship with the reality stars that appear on her show.
by
Sesali Bowen
Pop Culture
Why Proms – Supersized, Superglam – Don’t Look Anything Like The...
These days, prom is just as glamorous and over the top as your favorite music video thanks to social media.
by
Sesali Bowen
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