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Sterling K. Brown & Ernest Kingsley Jr. Lead A Joyful Rebellion In Washington...

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Black & Unbothered When There’s A Heatwave In New York City

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Essence Fest Was Still For Us & By Us. These Were The Best Moments

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Erykah Badu Teases New Music & Stops Show To Shout Out ASL Interp...

I don’t think Erykah Badu can be anything but unequivocally and unapologetically herself. If there has ever been a moment of pretense throughout her over

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

Damson Idris is racing straight to becoming a household Hollywood name. But no matter where his career takes him next, we can say that we saw him first. Th

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Ashanti Talks Docuseries With Nelly: “We Got All Of Our Big...

We are in an era of nostalgia, and as a millennial who mainlined every movie and TV show we are now revisiting, I am not mad at it. And thanks to the curre

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Lush Is An Ethical Beauty Brand You Can Trust. Just Ask Dylan Mul...

Finding a company that matches your values in this divisive social climate can be like trying to find an adequate pair of jeans when you’re in between si

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In Sinners, Do Smoke & Annie Get A Happy Ending? Wunmi Mos...

Major spoilers ahead. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners isn’t an easy watch. That is, it will have you sitting up straight, shifting towards the front of your sea

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This LA Hotel Specializes In Longer Stays & It’s A Remote Worker’...

Even though return-to-office mandates are on the rise, we know that flexible working isn’t going anywhere. And we know that Black women especially have b

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Paradise Is A Hit Because Sterling K. Brown Is The Hero TV...

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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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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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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Black History Month 2025

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

Hollywood likes predictability. It always has. A happy ending, a tried-and-true trope, a reliably bankable box-office star. That reliance on familiarity ha

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“What We Deem As Important Is Enough.” Keke Palmer’s NAACP Image ...

In December, I wrote that the best performances of the year were Black. The NAACP Image Awards is the only awards show that got the memo. Every year, the N

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Doechii, Janelle Monae, T-Pain & More. Inside Super Bowl LIX’s We...

Doechii believes in the power of manifestation. And if you’re an Eagles fan, after last night’s Super Bowl, you probably do too. The Philadelphia Eagle

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Beyoncé Finally Won Album Of The Year At The Grammys & We’re Just...

About a third of the way through the broadcast of the 67th annual Grammy Awards, it felt like things were too good to be true. The artists I wanted to win

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As Corporations Roll Back DEI, Let’s Not Lose Focus

Kathleen Newman-Bremang is the deputy director, global of Unbothered. In this op-ed, she shares her perspective on the backlash to companies rolling back D

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

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Unstoppable’s Jharrel Jerome, The Real Anthony & Judy Robl...

Welcome to “What’s Good,” where we break down what’s soothing, distracting, or just plain good in the streaming world with a “rooting for everybo

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The Golden Globes Honored Viola Davis & Snubbed Her At The Same Time

If you were rooting for everybody Black during this year’s 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards broadcast, you may have walked away from the show a bit disapp

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The Best Performances Of The Year Were Black

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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Black & Unbothered In Kentucky: Sipping On Bourbon & Obsessing Ov...

There’s no doubt that this year was huge for women’s sports. Whether it was the record-breaking viewership numbers for the WNBA or the many female star

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Barry Jenkins’ Mufasa Leans On “Big Feelings” & Its Breako...

Barry Jenkins knows people were skeptical 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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The Best Black Romantic (& Delightfully Corny) Christmas Movies O...

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Black Swifties At The Eras Tour Defend Their Love Of Taylor Swift

This week, Billboard named Taylor Swift as the second greatest pop star of the 21st century. The top spot, of course, went to Beyoncé. As it should! (Is m

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I Went To The Opening Of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure At Disneyland & ...

Disneyland is the happiest place on earth. They sell it as such, and even though I know it’s a marketing tagline that was probably brainstormed in a boar

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Wicked’s Elphaba Has Always Been Black. Cynthia Erivo’s St...

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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With The Piano Lesson, It’s Danielle Deadwyler’s Time. Fin...

This edition is all about Danielle Deadwyler in The Piano Lesson, in theaters now and on Netflix Friday, Nov. 22.

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Jharrel Jerome Is “Good Overwhelmed!” By TIFF Response To Unst...

Jharrel Jerome is overwhelmed. “Good overwhelmed!” he clarifies on the red carpet of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) premiere of his new

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Unbothered
In The Fire Inside, Ryan Destiny & Brian Tyree Henry Give ...
An athlete has one job: win. The early mornings in the gym, the grind, the hustle, the sweat, the tears, it all leads to victory. Well, that’s the goal.
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