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Kathleen Newman-Bremang
Unbothered
The HFPA Did Us Dirty — Why The Golden Globes Diversity Statements Fell Short
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Mar 1, 2021
TV Shows
Where Is The Love? A Double Hot Take On
The Bachelor
, Race & This Season’...
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Feb 23, 2021
Culture
The Incredible Black Canadian Women You Should Know
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Feb 22, 2021
Black History Month 2021
Two Generations, One Goal: A Conversation About Black Liberation
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
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Entertainment
Where’s All The Good Kissing On TV?
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
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Movies
Malcolm & Marie
Hates Film Criticism — Here’s What Two Fil...
This post contains spoilers for Malcolm & Marie, now streaming on Netflix. A few minutes into Netflix’s Malcolm & Marie, Marie, played by Z
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Entertainment
The Limitless World Beyoncé Built For Blue Ivy Carter — & For Us All
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
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Unbothered
How The Racial Trauma Of 2020 F*cked With Our Bodies & What To Do...
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
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Entertainment
One Night In Miami’s
Secret Ingredient Is Its Elec...
It only takes moments into Regina King’s directorial debut before you realize — like really start to understand — what the term “actor’s director
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Unbothered
The Kamala Harris
Vogue
Cover Has Issues — And It’s Not ...
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
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Unbothered
Stacey Abrams Is Not A Magical Negro, So Stop Asking Her To Save ...
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
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Unbothered
5 Black Women Share What They’re Demanding From 2021
2020 took more than it gave, shook more than it soothed, and damaged more than it healed. But in the debris left behind in its hellscape, embers of hope fl
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Unbothered
A Double Hot Take On
Bridgerton
, Race & Romance
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
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Unbothered
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Star Taylour Paige On That Chad...
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
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Unbothered
“We’re Collectively Traumatized:” Laverne Cox O...
'Promising Young Woman' is an emotional rollercoaster—so is this conversation with the Emmy-nominated actress and activist.
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Unbothered
Jingle Jangle
Is A Reminder That The Best Christmas Movi...
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
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Unbothered
Stephan James & Shamier Anderson Are Tired Of Black Talent Being ...
The Canadian brothers have launched a new initiative to give Black creatives the opportunities they never had at home.
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Unbothered
If You Aren’t Buying Black This Holiday Season, Gabrielle U...
Black-owned businesses are in trouble. In the midst of a racial injustice reckoning and a social media push to #BuyBlack this year, you may have thought ot
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Unbothered
The Grammys Fumbled Its R&B Categories, But Should We Even Care?
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
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Unbothered
Letitia Wright’s New Role Honors A Black Woman of The Resistance ...
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
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Unbothered
Michaela Coel’s Onscreen Catharsis Is Helping Black People ...
With the release — and soaring popularity — of I May Destroy You in June, Michaela Coel destroyed our expectations of a “quarantine watch.” While t
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Unbothered
Naomi Osaka Is The Embodiment Of Black Excellence — On Court & Off
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
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Culture
White People, Are You Done “Listening & Learning” Yet?
Like open-concept workspaces and infinitely stocked snack bars, the latest trend in corporate culture is fixing racism through town halls and open dialogue
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Entertainment
Why
Insecure
’s Emmys Shutout Hurts, Even If You Love
If you were — like Issa Rae famously quipped at the 2017 Emmys — “rooting for everybody Black” at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday night,
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Movies
How Tracey Deer Processed Her Trauma & Made The Best Coming-Of-Ag...
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
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Entertainment
Stranger Things
Star Caleb McLaughlin Is All Grown Up In...
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
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Entertainment
Chadwick Boseman Loved Being A Superhero… & That’s Why He Was Ours
Walking into the theatre to see Black Panther in February 2018 was the closest I’d come to going to church since, well, church. Like every Black per
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Movies
The Greatest Love Story in Black Is King Is Between Beyoncé & Kelly
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.
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Entertainment
Thanks to Aisha Dee, We Know Why
The Bold Type
Has A Kat...
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
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Work & Money
For Black Women In Media, A “Dream Job” Is A Myth
Every time a Black woman hits my timeline with yet another horrifying account of workplace racism, images of my own rush to my head.
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