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Shan Boodram Is Helping Black Women Reclaim Their Sexuality

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Joy Ofodu On Dating, Relationships, & Being Boo’ed Up On Instagram

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Baby Tate On BBLs, Self-Love & Making Music For Black Women

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Angelica Ross Sounds Off On Trans Activism & Her Next Chapter

Your favorite podcasting baddies are back with more flowers to give with part two of season five of the award-winning — they said what they said — Go O

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Why You Should Think About Freezing Your Eggs In Your 20s, Accord...

Gynecologists may know us on a deeply (read: uncomfortably) intimate level, but the one topic that seems to be off the table? Fertility and family planning

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How Lauren Simmons Became The “Wolfette Of Wall Street”

Lauren Simmons’ name rings bells. At 22, she was the youngest full-time woman trader on Wall Street. And only the second Black woman trader in the New Yo

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The One Thing Keke Palmer Is Doing Differently This Christmas Hol...

As if being the host of Refinery29’s “The Hookup,” a live dating experience in L.A., wasn’t enough, Keke Palmer slid into the studio for a lil’ h

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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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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

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Dating While Black: What Are The Red Flags We Should Watch Out For?

The cold weather has arrived, which means it’s officially cuffing season. The singles are low-key reviewing candidates to share gourmet hot chocolate and

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Insecure‘s Yvonne Orji On Why Her Onscreen Charact...

Insecure, the award-winning, critically acclaimed, insanely relatable HBO series, is all about what it means to be a Black woman in America. But at its cor

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How Are Black Folks Redefining & Reclaiming Luxury? Elaine Welter...

“What does [luxury] really even mean?” asks Chelsea Sanders, co-host of Go Off, Sis, the podcast from Refinery29’s Unbothered. “Des

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This Is What Navigating 2021 Looks Like For Black Women, Accordin...

Go Off, Sis, the podcast from Refinery29’s Unbothered, is back for season five. And while we’re still in the panorama, the upside is this: Many of us a

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