Kathleen Newman-Bremang

The 2021 Oscars, like Tyler Perry’s speech, almost had me.  The broadcast started with a beaming Regina Thee King doing what she does best: being flawle

Lighting up could be the answer to burning down the tropes that have sidelined Black women characters for decades. It's high time for new strains of stoner

There’s a scene in the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film Judas And The Black Messiah that, even amidst all of its buzz and accolades, I don’t

The story coming out of the 63rd Grammy Awards is about women. It’s the narrative that makes the Recording Academy and their choices look positive. I hea

There’s a gif of the late Chadwick Boseman from the 2019 Oscars I think about a lot. It’s from the moment Green Book wins Best Picture. As the mostly-w

The Bachelor host Chris Harrison thought his now-infamous February 9 conversation with former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay had gone well. Moments after repe

Activists Janaya Future Khan of the Black Lives Matter movement and Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, come together to discuss activism in 2021 and

Welcome to “What’s Good,” where we break down what’s soothing, distracting, or just plain good in the streaming world. What’s Good? Kissing. On t

Watch Homecoming with Refinery29 and writer Kathleen Newman-Bremang January 28 at 5:05 PM EST on Twitter using #R29MovieClub.When Beyoncé was seven, sh

The jolt of the pandemic changing our lives overnight and the constant onslaught of anti-Black racism is traumatic (especially since Black people have had

Kamala Harris’s position as the first Black woman Vice President-elect of the United States  comes with an invisible tightrope. We’ve seen her wal

There’s a fine line between giving Abrams her flowers and the credit she deserves without tasking her to save the whole damn country, and last night, tha

This post contains spoilers for Bridgerton Season 1 and is based on the Netflix series alone, not the books.  Bridgerton’s elevator pitch goes like

Taylour Paige thought she blew her audition for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. In the new Netflix film, the 30-year-old actress plays Dussie Mae, the young lo

Welcome to “What’s Good,” where we break down what’s soothing, distracting, or just plain good in the streaming world. We started this column over

The Canadian brothers have launched a new initiative to give Black creatives the opportunities they never had at home.

If there’s one thing Twitter is gonna do, it’s get mad over Grammy nominations. I am including myself in the royal “we” of the bird app because min

It’s at once eerie and infuriating that almost every protest scene in Steve McQueen’s Mangrove—the first film in his Amazon anthology series, Small A