Kathleen Newman-Bremang

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

Naomi Osaka could settle for just being excellent. At 23, she’s already one of the greatest tennis players in the world. It would be easy for her to stay

Like open-concept workspaces and infinitely stocked snack bars, the latest trend in corporate culture is fixing racism through town halls and open dialogue

There’s a pause on the other end of the line. Mohawk director Tracey Deer is silently — in between audible sobs — trying to collect herself in order

Caleb McLaughlin seems to have skipped the awkward phase. You know, that gangly, voice-is-cracking rite of passage for child stars who grow up in front of

Kelly Rowland gets asked about her skin tone a lot. Almost as much as she gets asked about her best friend and former Destiny’s Child bandmate, Beyoncé.

This story contains minor spoilers for The Bold Type Season 4 finale. In the final episode of The Bold Type’s fourth season, Kat Edison (played by Aisha