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Black Is The New Black 2021

The Black Vanguards Who Inspired Us In 2021

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The One Thing Keke Palmer Is Doing Differently This Holiday Season

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These Black Style Entrepreneurs Made Us Look Good In 2021

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In The Sex Lives of College Girls, It’s The Black Girls Who Steal The ...

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This story includes Succession season 3 spoilers. If you’ve ever been a Black employee in boardroom full of white executives — truly, my least fa

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Porsha Williams Gets Real About Being On Reality TV

After 10 years on The Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA), Porsha Williams took her Georgia peach to go. And even with a lead role in Porsha’s Family M

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King Richard May Be About Richard, But Its Strength Is Sho...

When Venus and Serena Williams first rocketed into the tennis stratosphere, no one could have imagined the indelible impact that the sister duo would have

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Virgil Abloh & Chadwick Boseman’s Deaths Remind Us That Black Art...

“I don’t have to do nothin’ but stay Black and die.” This oft-repeated phrase in Black communities of a certain generation tells a story of people

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The 10 Best Black Corny Christmas Romances Of The Season

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Ari Lennox Has Been Arrested In Amsterdam

On Monday (November 29), R&B singer Ari Lennox was arrested by Dutch military police at Schiphol Airport. The authorities, who are responsible for over

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William Jackson Harper In Love Life Is The Chaotic But End...

I just can’t stop thinking about the new season of HBO Max’s Love Life. More specifically, I can’t stop thinking about William Jackson Harper in the

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Bruised Isn’t Great, But Halle Berry And Sheila Atim Are

Welcome to “What’s Good,” a column where we break down what’s soothing, distracting, or just plain good in the streaming world with a “rooting fo

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Black Selling Sunset Stans, It’s Our Time

When Netflix first dropped Selling Sunset, the world wasn’t sure of how interesting a series about the personal and professional lives of the agents of T

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Proof That Black Women Music Artists Gave Us The Soundtrack To 2021

Let’s just go ahead and say Black women artists gave us the soundtrack to 2021. Megan. Chloé. H.E.R. Jazmine. Normani. And Go Off, Sis, the podcast from

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International Transgender Day of Remembrance And The Genocide Of ...

There is a genocide against Black transgender women happening. In a world in which transgender people are more visible than ever — gracing red carpets, s

Anifa Mvuemba Took Over D.C. With Hanifa’s First Runway Show & Sh...

Designer Anifa Mvuemba is known for her beloved brand, Hanifa, which is full of vibrant and bold coloured designs. On Tuesday (Nov 16), she debuted her fir

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Two Men Convicted For The 1965 Assassination Of Malcolm X Have Be...

Nearly 60 years after the shocking assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X, a new development in the investigation into his murder has led to t

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Sister, Sister: King Richard Stars Saniyya Sidney & Demi S...

Welcome to The Come-Up, where rising Gen-Z talent checks in on their way to the top. In this edition, we’re catching up with dynamic duo Saniyya Sidn

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I Didn’t Date for 18 Months – Now I’m Back (with a Plan)

“It’s lit. Big crowd, open bar, good music and art!” I stared at the text from my friend. I had asked for an update on the event she was heading to a

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Sasheer Zamata On The Power — & Messiness — Of Black Twitter

Hands down, the best place on the internet — if you want to see civilians and celebs get celebrated or dragged — is Black Twitter. It was the first to

by Taiia Smart Young

The Devastating — And Divisive — Ending Of Passing, Explained

This story contains major spoilers for the Netflix film Passing. The ending of Rebecca Hall’s Passing is ambiguous and shifting, perhaps even more

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Condolences To Your Condola Hate — Lawrence Is The Real Insec...

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Colourism Clouds The Rich Imagination Of The Harder They Fall
In the new Netflix original movie The Harder They Fall, writer and director Jeymes Samuel pays homage to the rich legacy of the Black cowboy. Playful and i
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Black Love
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On this episode of Dear, Black Love we watch newly married couple, Brea and Mariah, share their modern love story. From meeting their freshman year at Yale
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Black Love
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What is Black love? Is it simply two Black people in relationship, at all costs? Or is it a more profound experience of freeing the self into something bey
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Actress Niecy Nash isn’t one to back down from a fight. Case in point: In the award-winning dark comedy Claws, the execs initially saw Nash’s onscr
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Black Women On Reality Dating Shows Are Rarely Finding Love. Inst...
The reality dating show contestant-to-influencer pipeline is real, and it may be the only practical motivation for Black women to join the ranks.
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I’ve always been atrocious at math, so it wasn’t too shocking back in October 2018 when I realized that I had miscalculated how quickly I would earn $5
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Eradicating Fatphobia, Embracing Radical Body Love
Award-winning journalist Sofiya Ballin explores how Black women can radically love their bodies in a world incentivized by their ability to hate it.
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Chlöe The Conqueror: On The Battlefield Of Self-Love & ‘Imposter ...
Chlöe is in a fight for her life. It might not seem like it to the outside world that’s witnessing her rise to solo pop stardom. After all, the songstre
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Brown Sugar Is Still Just As Sweet As The First Time We ...
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