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Recently, Doja Cat announced that she may have lipedema: A chronic and progressive condition where abnormal fat tissue builds up typically in the legs, thighs and buttocks. In addition to her synth-backed melodies and genre-bending rhymes, the “Say So,” songstress is known to wax quite poetically about her fuller lower half. “If you can see […]
Is your favorite love song one that’s easy to recognize? Chelley Bissainthe wants to find out. EBONY can exclusively reveal that the content creator and reality TV alum is set to host the original series Love, Songs, for UPROXX TV. “ I feel honored,” Bissainthe exclaimed to EBONY. “I’m just really excited because I get to […]
I left my hometown in the late summer of 2007. Carolina Gold rice is harvested during this period, when farmers cut the rice stalks in August. After grad school and a year living with my mom, I packed everything I had. I relocated to Washington, D.C., from the Lowcountry. My decision was simple: Charleston was still […]
Stated simply, the time is always right to celebrate the influence and accomplishments of Black women. Such was the case last Thursday night at The Gathering Spot in Los Angeles for the inaugural Black Women in Entertainment Honors. The event highlighted the groundbreaking work of 11 extraordinary women – Phylicia Fant, Global Head of Music […]
We’ve seen this before, and we’re tired of it. British-Ghanaian actor Paapa Essiedu has faced intense online backlash — including death threats — since being cast as Professor Snape in HBO’s new Harry Potter adaptation. The reaction is predictably troubling. It’s the same ugly cycle we’ve watched play out too many times: Black actors are […]
If you want to understand luxury, you do not start on the sales floor. You start where the codes are protected, archived and quietly reimagined. For a group of Spelman College students, alongside peers from Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College, that meant stepping directly into the inner sanctums of LVMH in Paris. Not as […]
The creator economy has long outgrown the idea that influence only belongs to entertainers working within traditional gates. Today’s most magnetic cultural voices are building audiences in real time, shaping taste, language, beauty standards, family life, political conversation, and even how we understand humor itself. EBONY’s Creator’s Era list exists to honor that shift by […]
Scrolling through TikTok or Instagram lately, you’ve likely seen it: soft-lit videos about deleting apps, switching to flip phones, romanticizing “analog life.” The phrase floats through captions — being offline is the new luxury. In an age of constant updates, notifications, and algorithm-driven visibility, stepping away can look aspirational. Exclusive, even. Still, for many Black creators and community builders whose income and […]
There are men who age, and then there are men who evolve. Larenz Tate has been doing the latter in plain sight for over three decades. Since his breakout in Menace II Society, his face has remained a kind of cultural constant, less frozen in time and more refined by it. The internet calls it […]
With Joy Sunday, it’s all in the eyes. Looking into them, they seem to bore into your soul. It’s that gaze that’s led Sunday to be an indelible force in two hit TV series: first as Bianca Barclay, the siren whose gaze sways people’s actions on Wednesday. And now, that look is getting her to […]