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The very notion of “Black Excellence” is a divisive one. People across the country have cultivated and perpetuated a variety of different approaches to

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Acne & Melanated Skin: A Derm Answers Your Most Pressing Questions

There’s honestly nothing worse than executing what was bound to be a glowier-than-thou face beat only to find a ripening pimple brewing under the surface

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Black Love

Dear Black Love: Brea & Mariah Share ‘Eternal Love’

On this episode of Dear, Black Love we watch newly married couple, Brea and Mariah, share their modern love story. From meeting their freshman year at Yale

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Black Love

Well-Read Black Girl & R29Unbothered Present The Black Love Readi...

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Beauty

How 3 Black Women Are Defining & Reclaiming Ownership

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Hey, Hurston/Wright Foundation — What About Black Trans Lives?

Updated September 24, 2021, 4:06pm ET: In 1990, Marita Golden and Clyde McElvene created the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation as a supportive s

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Jennifer Hough’s First On-Air Interview About Nicki Minaj &...

*Editor’s note: this story contains discussions about sexual violence, threats, and intimidation. Please read with care. A month after publicly all

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She Was One In A Million — The R29Unbothered Team Remembers Aaliyah

There’s a clip going viral of Aaliyah appearing on BET’s 106 & Park on August 21, 2001. In the video, the then 22-year-old singer is just as you re

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Juneteeth

Artist Tiara Thomas Talks Freedom in Music & Being Halfway To Her...

Tiara Thomas has always known what she wants. “When I was 12, I said I was gonna win a Grammy,” the singer-songwriter shares in the latest Go Off

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Juneteeth

Dear Black Love: Sexual Liberation With King Noire & Jet-Setting ...

This Juneteenth, we’re getting free of everything that has us (non-consensually) bound — including oppressive sex and relationship norms. Powerhous

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R29’s Global Editor-In-Chief Gets Candid With Symone Sanders

Symone Sanders is no stranger to success. At 25, she became the youngest presidential press secretary on record while working alongside U.S. Senator Bernie

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How This Mother-Daughter Duo Is Healing The Black Community

When Amber Finney was in high school, her mother Jeannell Anthony took her to Harlem one day for a spiritual reading — a ritual they often did together ?

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Beauty

Let’s Talk About Facial Hair: This Studio Is Tapping Into An Over...

“Peach fuzz,” “whiskers” — whatever you call it, facial hair is a normal occurrence for women, particularly those with hormonal c

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Dear, Black Love: Meet Jade & Daniel, A Black Love Story 10 Years...

“There’s been a lot of time invested here, but, that is to say, different parts of that time have been better than others,” 27-year-old Jade Parker s

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Stop Playing 2020: The Magical Memes & Moments That Made This Yea...

There’s a certain white knuckle relief in knowing that we’re all about to get off the ride that is 2020. And while the uncertainty of 2021 still has us

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Austin Channing Brown Has Arrived, & She’s Shifting The Rac...

Following her appearance on Brené Brown’s podcast in June, Austin Channing Brown asked the following question: “Am I allowed to feel joy during

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Sinead Bovell Is Shaking Up The Tech Space

Sinead Bovell didn’t plan on becoming a model. “We weren’t allowed to read magazines until we were 18 in my house,” she recalls. But wh

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Why The “Strong Black Woman” Stereotype Is So Dangerous

In the latest, special bonus episode of Go Off, Sis, the podcast from Refinery29’s Unbothered, VP of Communications Chelsea Sande

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How To Feel Better About Having A Socially Distant Summer

There’s no question about it: We’re living in unprecedented times, and change is (finally) happening on all fronts — locally, nationally, and globall

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How Black Women Across The Country Are Reclaiming Joy

There’s no question about it: We’re living in unprecedented times, and change is (finally) happening on all fronts — locally, nationally, and globall

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The Real Difference Between Performative & True Allyship

Between a global pandemic that resembles the stuff you might see in apocalyptic movies and an administration that has done nothing but stoke racial tension

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Who Gets To Decide What’s ‘For The Culture’?

If the 90-degree temperature, unbearable humidity, and blinding sunlight outside didn’t tip you off, it officially feels like summer — and, on the

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Tracee Ellis Ross: “We Are Only As Safe As Our Most Vulnera...

Whatever you call it — stacking, getting that bread, or increasing one’s net worth with a diversified stock portfolio — money’s on our mind

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Janelle Monáe On What It Means To Be Black & Spiritual

It’s time to burn the sage and break out the energy crystals. On the second episode of Unbothered‘s Go Off, Sis podcast, host Danielle Cadet sp

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Season 2 Of Go Off, Sis Gets Real About Black Excellence...

If making small talk with a handprint on a volleyball is starting to sound pretty good right now (same), here comes some new, nod-along-in-agreement quar-e

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Join Us On A 3-Week Journey Of Self-Care

Join Unbothered on a journey of self-care, helping ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities glow beyond (with a little help from Ulta Beauty’s 21 D

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Entertainment

Refinery29 Celebrates 20 Black Women You Need To Know Right Now

At Refinery29, we wanted to make sure that the current long-awaited cultural awakening to the power of Black women is not just a "moment" that will be forg

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