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Entertainment
The Visionary: Dee Rees
Arianna Davis
Mar 1, 2018
Entertainment
The Role Model: Yvonne Orji
Arianna Davis
Mar 1, 2018
Entertainment
Refinery29 Celebrates 20 Black Women You Need To Know Right Now
Arianna Davis
Mar 1, 2018
Books & Art
The Writer: Stevona Elem Rogers
With Black Is The New Black, R29’s Black writers spotlight 20 women who are inspiring us right now — Black women who are kicking down the doors of thei
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Arianna Davis
Movies
Hey, Hollywood: #OscarsSoWhite Means We Need More Asians & Latinx...
This piece was originally published in 2017. Unfortunately, one year later, the awards show is still offering much of the same. In the year after the #Osca
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Arianna Davis
Verified
How Gugu Mbatha-Raw Is Shattering Hollywood’s Glass Ceilings
In Hollywood, Black female actresses have been typecast since the beginning. There’s the sassy sidekick, the around-the-way girl, and of course, the mamm
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Arianna Davis
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Music
How 30-Year-Old Rihanna Changed The Music Industry
Rihanna has been hailed as a fashion powerhouse and beauty mogul. GIFs of the bad gal offering up an epic side eye through a car window or twerking in a se
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Arianna Davis
Movies
Black Panther
's Breakout Star Letitia Wright Is No Disne...
In 2006, a 12-year-old Letitia Wright was inspired to chase her dreams while watching Keke Palmer portray a spelling bee champ in the movie Akeelah And The
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Arianna Davis
Movies
The Mind Behind The Visuals Of
Lemonade
&
Moonlight ...
There are many elements of Marvel's Black Panther that make it sure to be a blockbuster: Its historic undertaking as the first-ever major Black superh
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Arianna Davis
US News
Oprah Confirms She's Not Running For President…For Real Thi...
From her lips to America’s ears. Oprah Winfrey has confirmed that she is definitely not running for president. From a live SuperSoul Conversation podcast
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment News
All The Theories We Have So Far On Kylie's Baby Name, Stormi
On February 6, two days after announcing that she'd privately given birth to a baby girl on February 1 after months of speculation, Kylie Jenner annou
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Arianna Davis
Music
Industry Insiders Tell Refinery29 What It Will
Really
Ta...
The beginning of 2018 highlighted yet another area of the entertainment industry that's suffering from some vast gender inequality: music. While the d
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Arianna Davis
Music
Why The Spice Girls Reunion Is Exactly What We Need In This Girl ...
In the past year, “girl power” has been a cultural rallying cry against oppression and gender inequality. Since Donald Trump was elected Presid
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Arianna Davis
TV Shows
How
2 Dope Queens
Jessica Williams & Phoebe Robinson Are...
They're a pair of Black women that describe attractive men as “hot peen” and encourage white folks to join them in using cocoa butter to b
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Arianna Davis
Music
The Grammys Didn't Just Snub "Despacito," But An Entire Culture
“Despacito” by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber was 2017’s most inescapable song. It spent a record-breaking 16 weeks at n
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Arianna Davis
Music
Yes, The Grammys Were A Bad Night For Women — But
Especially ...
Alessia Cara was the only woman to win a major award during the televised show at the 60th annual Grammy awards. The only one. The show made it astoundingl
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Arianna Davis
Music
What In The Hell Does Confetti Sound Like? Let St. Beauty Explain It
The Come Up is Refinery29’s new series featuring rising female artists who are as badass and inspiring as their music is. This is our first installment.
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Arianna Davis
The Drop
The Drop: Exclusive Music Video Premiere For Latasha Alcindor's "...
Welcome to The Drop, Refinery29's new home for exclusive music video premieres. We want to shine the spotlight on women artists whose music inspires,
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Arianna Davis
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Movie Reviews
Meryl Streep In
The Post
Is A Reminder For Our President...
Meryl Streep has certainly been in the news lately. But amidst all of the complex conversations about her role — or lack thereof — in the #MeToo moment
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment
HBO's Quinceañera Doc Is A Reminder That Progressiveness Isn't Ea...
A brief look at pop-culture and politics over the past year might give the illusion that rights for transgender people have progressed, at least in terms o
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment
Margot Robbie Talks To R29 About
I, Tonya
, Women In Spor...
Twenty-four years following a scandal that rocked the world, Margot Robbie takes on the role of figure skater Tonya Harding in a behind-the-scenes story th
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Arianna Davis
Movies
Guillermo Del Torro's New Film
The Shape Of Water
Is An ...
After the masterpiece that was Call Me By Your Name, I didn't think I'd come across another unforgettable love story that would leave me sobbing
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Arianna Davis
Work & Money
I Took My Former Boss, Gayle King, To Lunch & We Talked Breakups,...
I asked my former boss Gayle King about everything from how to ask for a raise to whether long-term marriages are truly possible for career-oriented women
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Arianna Davis
Movies
Amid Pixar Controversy,
Coco
Is Still A Sweet Tear-Jerke...
On Tuesday, John Lasseter, one of Pixar's founders and its Chief Creative Officer, announced that he is taking a formal leave of absence from the comp
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment
A Day In The Life Of Kim Kardashian's Right-Hand Woman, Stephanie...
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Arianna Davis
Gender Nation
Tove Lo Talks Her New Single "Disco Tits"
In Tove Lo's video for her new single “Disco Tits,” she's consumed by a wild love affair, riding down the freeway with her hair blowi
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Arianna Davis
Gender Nation
Young M.A Is Not Just Lesbian Rapper, Or One-Hit Wonder — She's A...
Rap music has always been criticized for misogynistic lyrics, but the summer of 2016 was a doozy. Over two months, hip-hop fans (myself included) had songs
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Arianna Davis
TV Recaps
Queen Sugar
Season 2 Episode 16 Finale Recap: No Smoke I...
Well, Queen Sugar lovers, we've made it to the finale of this second season, and it did not disappoint. Let's get started with our last (waaaah!)
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Arianna Davis
TV Recaps
Queen Sugar
Season 2 Episode 15 Recap: Feeling Blue
This week starts off with Ralph Angel going through it. He's still in a deep depression and asks Hollywood to round up the family, because he only wan
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment News
You HAVE To See Beyonce's Five-Outfit Tribute To Lil' Kim
I'd like to present you, dear readers and fellow Beyoncé stans, with a luxurious fantasy. Picture it: Bey lets her hair down — well, actually, put
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Arianna Davis
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