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F1’s Damson Idris Just Wants To Make His Black Women Fans Proud

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In Sinners, Do Smoke & Annie Get A Happy Ending? Wunmi Mosaku Weighs In

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Black History Month 2025

Stop Calling Black Actors “DEI Hires.” How The War On Diversity Is Ruining ...

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Naomi Ackie On Mickey 17, Playing “Unhinged” & Who’s Doing...

Naomi Ackie gets to be weird in Mickey 17. Onscreen, that’s rare for a Black woman. And Ackie knows that the ability to star in a sci-fi blockbuster, dir

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The Entire Celebrity Interview Ecosystem Is Flawed — It’s Not Jus...

Everybody has bad interviews. It’s part of the gig. If you talk to celebrities for a living, eventually one of those chats is going to go sideways. We’

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Here’s Every New Black TV Show You Should Be Watching This ...

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Mufasa Leans On “Big Feelings” & Its Breakout Cast. The Re...

Barry Jenkins knows people were sceptical about his decision to direct Mufasa: The Lion King, a live-action prequel to the beloved franchise. This is the g

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Wicked’s Elphaba Has Always Been Black Girl Coded. Cynthia...

Elphaba is green. It’s the first thing Glinda says to her in Wicked, the Jon M. Chu-directed blockbuster movie-musical adaptation of Stephen Schwartz’s

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Sha’Carri Richardson Also Wants Her Viral Olympic Moment Hung In ...

Every four years, at every Summer Olympic Games, iconic snapshots emerge that immortalise feats of greatness that wouldn’t seem humanly possible if we we

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Forget “Icks,” Here Are Our Oddly Specific Turn-Ons

Team Unbothered is looking for someone to match our freak. This is our exhaustive, extensive, roadmap of thirst.

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After A Quiet Place: Day One , Lupita Nyong’o Is Ready To...

Most post-apocalyptic movies are all about survival. How long can you stay alive? These films ask rhetorically, with the expectation that surviving is the

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When Will Bridgerton Do Right By Lady Danbury?

Spoilers ahead. In the Bridgerton universe’s game of high stakes romance, Lady Agatha Danbury (played by Adjoa Andoh) is one of its most important player

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Queenie Reminds Us That Black Women Have A “Right To...

Minor spoilers ahead. If you’ve read Candice Carty-Williams’ acclaimed novel Queenie, you know that its titular character Queenie Jenkins is a mess. No

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The Mondrichs Bring Black Love To The Bridgerton Universe ...

Minor spoilers for Bridgerton Season 3 ahead. One thing a Shondaland show is going to do is embrace the swirl. Interracial relationships are a recurring co

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Why Bridgerton’s Golda Rosheuvel Is “So Moved” By Queen Ch...

With every new season of 1800s high society London, there are a few things fans can look forward to from the Bridgerton Cinematic Universe: the central cou

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The Idea Of You Author Couldn’t Sell Her Black Romance. So...

Robinne Lee reads the audiobook for her own romance novel, The Idea Of You. The author has also been an actress for over 30 years (you may remember her fro

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Tashi Duncan Is Challengers’ Villain & Zendaya Is Its Hero

Challengers spoilers ahead. Zendaya moves beautifully. Whether she’s sashaying down a red carpet or twisting and contorting herself to show off couture g

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My Miscarriage Was “Common” — For Black Women That Is...

Content warning: This article contains graphic details of miscarriage, pregnancy loss, and the Black Maternal Health crisis. When I was 11, I was convinced

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Cowboy Carter Isn’t Revenge. It’s A Reeducation.

In Beyoncé’s Homecoming film, a seminal text for any card-carrying member of the Beyhive, Nina Simone’s voice kicks in at around the 16-minute mark. I

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Black History Month 2024

Is Artificial Intelligence Really Racist? It’s Time To Con...

The first articles that come up when you Google “artificial intelligence” and “Black people” are concerning to say the least. The New York Times as

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Is It Time Beyoncé & Jay-Z Stopped “Showing Up” To The Grammys?

How many times? How many times are we going to do this? Time and time again, The Recording Academy tells us exactly what kind of institution it is. We shou

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Black Women Won Big At The Emmys — But It’s Embarrassing Award Sh...

The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards was a genuinely fun, surprisingly sincere celebration of television. You could tell that the production team behind the show

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globes Was Missing One Thing: A Backbone

There is a long history of performers using their platforms at awards ceremonies to uplift social issues, to cause a bit of political commotion, or to try

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The Best Performances Of The Year Came From Black Women, Whether ...

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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Why Having A Work BFF May Be The Best Thing For Your Career

Having a work bestie is tied to happiness, health, and success. And with job-related anxiety and loneliness at a high, there's never been a better tim

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Even John Boyega And Teyonah Parris Are Confused By They Clone...

It would be easy to put They Cloned Tyrone into a neat little box alongside other Black-led sci-fi stories as of late that are also simmering with satire a

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Unbothered
Three Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Who Gets To Be Humanised?
Three weeks before the three-year anniversary of George Floyd’s brutal murder, Jordan Neely was executed in the same way; a chokehold delivered by a whit
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Unbothered
A Double Hot Take On Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story...
This post contains spoilers for Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. The first glimpse of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story that Netflix released in Sept
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Entertainment
Tessa Thompson Talks Going To Couples Therapy With Michael B. Jordan
Rocky Balboa’s iconic ascent up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art — out of breath and in grey joggers as “Eye of the Tiger” blares in the
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Unbothered
Race Is “More Central” In Queen Charlotte Than In Br...
In the Bridgerton Cinematic Universe — the BCU, if you will — it’s expected that glamorous balls, fancy gowns, and romantic longing will reign over a
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