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BBMAs Honoree Lil Miss Flint Is Still Fighting For Clean Water
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TV Shows
Beware: These Gritty & Disturbing Netflix TV Shows Will Take You To Dark Places
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I Won’t Stop Intellectualizing The Kardashians
The Kardashians, which premiered on April 14, has broken streaming records at Hulu. Its debut also dominated Disney+ and Star+ across global networks. Stil
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Entertainment
Are We In The Most Boring Era Of Celebrity?
Did you feel it too? Your throat stifling a little yawn when faced with the mundanity, nay, the utter vibelessness of this year’s Met Gala? Granted,
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She Works Hard For the Money: A Financial Dominatrix’s Tips On Fi...
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These Black TV Moms Make Motherhood Look Easy
Thanks to these Black women, I feel less of an urge to run in the other direction every time my mom asks me when I’ll be having kids of my own.
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“Pressure Makes Diamonds” — How The Creators Of
The Porter
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The Blackest creative team north of the border talks channelling their ancestors and facing high expectations to pull off the triumphant new series about B
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We Rewatched A Classic Black Rom-Com With Romance Queen Jasmine G...
Welcome to Love Like This?, a romance column where we, Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Ineye Komonibo, revisit some of the most romantic — or not, in hindsig
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Megan Thee Stallion’s Bombshell New Interview Reveals Devastating...
In July 2020, Megan thee Stallion was involved in an intense police stop after attending a celebrity pool party in Los Angeles, leading to the shocking rev
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Ineye Komonibo
TV Shows
The K-Drama Actors We’ll Watch In Anything
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Natalie Morin
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Was Will Smith’s Oscar Slap In Solidarity With Black Women Or An ...
Just when we thought that the Oscars couldn’t get wilder than the infamous 2017 Best Picture snafu (justice for Barry Jenkins and Moonlight, still), th
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Ineye Komonibo
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Young, Famous & African
: TV’s Obsession With Globa...
The reality television space has expanded from the pioneering series of the early 2000s like The Real World and Road Rules to evolving (or devolving, depen
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Ineye Komonibo
Entertainment
I’m Korean, I Don’t Relate To The K-Wave, And That’s Okay
Once upon a time, BTS meant behind the scenes, a parasite was something you learned about in biology and a green light followed by a red light only caused
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Naeun Kim
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What Should We Do About Kanye West? Maybe…Nothing
In the decades since his debut as a plucky young rapper from the southside of Chicago, Kanye West changed the way we thought about music, fashion, and how
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Ineye Komonibo
Pop Culture
Who Would We Be Without The Black Sitcoms That Raised Us?
Years ago, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Black sitcoms ruled the airwaves. These great series, spread across channels like ABC, NBC, The WB (which la
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Jodie Turner-Smith Isn’t Done Talking About Colorism — Are You Re...
In the A24 film After Yang, Jodie Turner-Smith’s character Kyra rarely raises her voice. She’s all muted tones and measured timbre — even when she’
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Black History Month 2022
A Renegotiation Of Hollywood’s Black Girl “Villain” Trope
Hollywood wanted us to believe these Black girl characters were villains. In reality, they were just right.
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Ineye Komonibo
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The Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Blackity-Black, But We’ve ...
For the first time in its almost 60-year run, hip-hop took center stage at the Super Bowl half-time show, resulting in a performance that may go down in hi
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Ineye Komonibo
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Love & Hip Hop
Gets Rooted In A New Special About African ...
Since its series premiere in 2011, VH1 original reality series Love and Hip Hop has taken music fans all over the country, making stops in New York City, M
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Ineye Komonibo
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Quinta Brunson Gets A Gold Star For
Abbott Elementary
There are some television shows that, within only a few minutes of watching, you just know will be hits. That magic is hard to explain — there isn’t ex
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Ineye Komonibo
Pop Culture
Love Island’
s Molly-Mae Exposes The Problems Of Infl...
Molly-Mae Hague is a 22-year-old influencer who already had a significant following before being launched to fame by Love Island in 2019. In subsequent yea
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The Official Trailer For The
Fresh Prince
Reboot Hints At ...
New year, same Hollywood dipping into the archive of beloved shows to reimagine for new audiences. First on 2022’s reboot list is Bel-Air, a darker, more
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Ineye Komonibo
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Actually, We Don’t Need A New Aaliyah Album
In summer 2021, word broke that music fans would finally be able to listen to Aaliyah’s full discography on various streaming platforms. The release
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Ineye Komonibo
Books & Art
What To Get The Book Lover In Your Life (Hint: It’s Not A Book)
Before you add that New York Times #1 best-seller to your cart, plop on a gift receipt, and ship it off to your favorite bookworm, let’s consider a f
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Alexandra Polk
Movies
Angelina Jolie Says She’s “Proud” Of Marvel For...
Spoilers ahead. Angelina Jolie has said she is “proud” of Marvel for refusing to cut Eternals scenes showing a main character in a same-sex rel
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Nick Levine
Entertainment
Eternals
Director Chloé Zhao On Diversity & Marvel’s First...
Chloé Zhao knows all about firsts. Earlier this year the Chinese-American filmmaker became the first woman of colour to win an Oscar for best director wit
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Maybelle Morgan
Black Love
It’s Time To Let Go Of Celebrity #RelationshipGoals
It doesn’t take much for two extremely attractive, very famous people to go from individual objects of thirst to a certified Celebrity Couple. Some strat
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Black Love
Brown Sugar
Is Still Just As Sweet As The First Time We ...
Welcome to Love Like This?, a romance column where we, Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Ineye Komonibo, revisit some of the most romantic — or not, in hi
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Kathleen Newman-B...
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To All The Black Church Kids For Whom Halloween Was Not An Option
The end of fall signals a number of things; cooler temperatures, the return (and inevitable pervasiveness) of pumpkin spice, and, most importantly, the sta
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Ineye Komonibo
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