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I am a fan of Megan Thee Stallion, not just for her music, but mainly for her resilience. As someone who lost both of her parents, one due to gun violence and another due to an aggressive brain cancer, I know intimately the pain one feels navigating the world with parental support and protection, and […]
This month’s TV lineup is stacked with criminal intent, docs on the edge, and maximum pleasure, guaranteed. Watson ends its two-season series run this month, which means we have to say goodbye to Morris Chestnut, but he’ll pop back up this fall on Reasonable Doubt! Our favorite animated warrior, Iyanu, wraps up her second season […]
“There is no dance without dance education.” That’s the quote Misty Copeland declared at the first annual Spring Benefit for the Misty Copeland Foundation, held at The Pool in New York City. Tina Knowles, Maya McHenry. Image: Dant√© Crichlow/BFA.com The room was luminous and well-appointed, with other dance legends like Debbie Allen and fellow special guests Tina Knowles, […]
What started as a 6-3 voting decision in the Louisiana v. Callais case has now become a potential nationwide shift, as many civil rights groups gear up to protect congressional seats and minority representation in future elections. Voters and voting advocates across the country are flagging their concerns with the Supreme Court’s latest decision to […]
Every few years, the fashion industry circles back to the same question: is fashion art? Within Black design, that question feels late. Black designers have long operated as fine artists, whether institutions chose to recognize it or not. What the 2026 Costume Institute exhibition, Costume Art, and its accompanying Met Gala ultimately reveal is not […]
The Billboard Women in Music Awards recognized journalist, New York Times bestselling author, TV host, and founder of birthFUND, Elaine Welteroth, and her nonprofit, birthFUND, for their work in expanding access to midwifery care and improving maternal health outcomes across the United States. Welteroth took the stage alongside Grammy Award-winning artist Kelly Rowland, one of […]
Osawese Agbonkonkon knows it’s the uniform that gets people’s attention first. At the University of Texas, he is a high jumper for one of the nation’s top track and field powerhouses. He is tall, fast, and explosive, the kind of athlete coaches noticed before he fully saw the path for himself. But the more interesting part […]
Stepping into May always comes with the urge to smell different. It’s not June, but it also feels like a warm-up to summer. You don’t want anything too dramatically different, just enough to signal that the season has shifted and so have you. Heavier winter scents start to feel like wearing a coat indoors, while […]
With Michael earning more than $217 million globally in its opening weekend, talk of a sequel is already building. That includes the biopic’s director, Antoine Fuqua, who confirmed in an interview with Billboard that the production originally filmed several years of Michael Jackson’s life beyond the point where the movie ends, with the Jacksons’ Victory […]
Angela Williams has spent much of her life in service. Long before she became CEO of United Way Worldwide, she was the daughter of civil rights leaders, raised in a household where faith, duty and public responsibility were part of the inheritance. Her father worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. before becoming the […]