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It’s time to check out for a week or so to spend time with family and friends and indulge in the magic of the holiday season. There will be food, laughs and a variety of activities that will allow you to tap into holiday cheer, but if you’re a parent, you may get exhausted constantly […]
Dr. Tenina ‘Suga-T’ Stevens is Bay Area royalty, when she entered the hip-hop history-sphere in the early 1980s but really kicked off in the mid-90s, as part of The Click with her brothers E-40, D-Shot, and her cousin, B-Legit. On “Sprinkle Me,” one of the lead singles from their pivotal album, Down and Dirty. The 1995 single became a […]
The year 2025 brought us vampires. Lots of vampires. Sinners dominated the box office and our feeds, and the film is taking a big bite out of the 2025-26 awards season, with major accolades and recognition. On other screens, we laughed and cried over a day gone sideways (because we’ve all been there), defied gravity […]
Venus Williams, who’s been known for keeping her personal life private, has let us all in on one of the biggest occasions of her life (right up there with her Grand Slams and Olympic Gold!). She and her newlywed husband, Andrea Petri, just had a second fairy-tale wedding celebration in Florida. View this post on […]
A lot has gone down in 2025. We’ve loved, we’ve lost and, arguably, most importantly, we’ve gotten fly. 2025 has been filled with many ups and downs, with the ratio shifting depending on the season. Such is life. Through it all, though, our fits have carried us and given us something to look forward to […]
From Flavor of Love to Bad Girls Club, Black reality television has always understood something America pretends to debate every few years: conflict is the point, spectacle is the currency, and everyone knows they’re watching a performance—even when it claims to be real. That’s why the backlash surrounding Zeus Network’s Baddies reads less like genuine concern and more like a […]
“My favorite is Napoleon Dynamite. That movie has my heart. I didn’t see it in theaters, but my mother got it for me on DVD. I would always watch it on my sister’s Hello Kitty television.” Okonma — also known as Tyler, The Creator — openly stanned the 2004 feature on an episode of A24 […]
Walking into Paris in Black, a familiar feeling settled over me: a sense of stepping into a story I somehow knew in my bones, despite knowing it was never even taught to me. Tracing the footsteps of Black Americans who crossed the ocean—sometimes for opportunity, sometimes for oxygen—into a Paris that promised possibility, not perfection, the […]
All year long, we’ve been met with both celebration and grief as we’ve said goodbye to some of our favorite artists, innovators and cultural changemakers. Although their time with us was brief, we do not take the impact they have had and the difference they will make for generations to come for granted. Each person […]
The TikTok Awards, its first full-live scale ceremony here in the U.S., was clearly a meta experience: a ceremony celebrating the creators we spend hours scrolling, only for them to generate even more scrolls in return. Airing live from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on December 18, it was a chance to look beyond […]