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Dear, Black Love: Meet Jade & Daniel, A Black Love Story 10 Years In The Making

Stop Playing 2020: The Magical Memes & Moments That Made This Year Bearable

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

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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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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