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Shopping for a high school senior graduating and heading off to college can feel oddly emotional. One minute you’re celebrating graduation photos and scholarship announcements and the next you’re standing in a Walmart aisle realizing this teenager suddenly needs bedding, chargers, luggage and a mini fridge to begin their adult life. The best graduation gifts […]
For decades, Black women have consistently shown up to save democracy, organize communities, raise families, protect institutions, and vote even when the country gives them very little reason to believe the system will protect them. And this consistency has often yielded little return on investment. In the 2024 presidential election, Black women did it again. […]
Since the New York Knicks pulled off their most electric playoff runs in forever, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers to earn a spot in the NBA Finals, fans have lit up social media. The orange and blue love is freely flowing over the dream they’ve been manifesting since the Knicks last made the Finals in 1999, […]
If you’re chronically online like me, you’ve likely seen the recent conversations surrounding Dr. Cheyenne Bryant’s credentials. While much of the online discourse focused specifically on Bryant, the debate sparked a larger conversation across social media, in particular Black Twitter: Do mental health credentials actually matter? As the Black community continues to have conversations about […]
Recently, celebrity makeup artist and beauty brand founder Patrick Ta has come under fire for allegedly copying the transition blush effect popularized by London-based makeup artist Ngozi Edeme, AKA PaintedbyEsther. In May, Ta released his “Transition Blush System,” a three-pronged beauty framework designed to blend blush into concealer for an ombré-like effect. If this tonal […]
As a power couple of the arts, superproducer Kasseem Daoud Dean, better known as Swizz Beatz, and 17-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys have been dedicated to their Dean Collection and to promoting the Gordon Parks Foundation and its springtime gala for 15 years. And for those who attended the organization’s 20th celebration of its annual […]
What does it mean to be the first Black man on Summer House? Just ask KJ Dillard. When the 28-year-old joined the Hamptons-based reality television series, he did not enter with an appetite for debauchery and partying all night long. There was no intent to capitalize on his success as a Bravolebrity to pivot into […]
Elle Duncan has never been afraid to change the playbook. In the world of sports media, Duncan is the rare broadcaster who treats millions of viewers like friends at a sports bar, with undeniable energy, humor, authenticity and informed analysis that has made her a star. After carving out a prominent niche at ESPN as […]
There’s something beautifully awkward about the years between middle school and adulthood. High school is where personalities stretch out a little further. Where bedrooms become mini sanctuaries. Where playlists start sounding like identity. Where kids begin documenting their lives like tiny filmmakers, curating friend groups, discovering passions and slowly figuring out who they are when […]
With worldwide earnings exceeding $700 million, Michael has broken records as one of the best-performing music biopics of all time. Fans are flocking back to the theater to experience it over and over, and social media fan pages are full of talk about the King of Pop. A whole new legion of fans is discovering […]