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Ah, spring. Time to pack away those heavy winter clothes, declutter your home and update your reading list with books that feed your spirit and stir up convos in the group chat. The seven books in this month’s lineup are giving growth and glow-up vibes on every page. Let’s start with award-winning rapper 2 Chainz, […]
Yes, we’re a little ahead of the field, but what better time during the Sweet Sixteen weekend to announce, The “Elite EBONY Eight.” (See what we did there). The tournament continues to prove to be filled with adrenaline-pumping buzzer beaters, breakout performances, and the kind of underdog stories that define this time of year. As […]
Zazie Beetz has a simple rule for surviving in a horror film: don’t go there. We had just watched the opening scene of her latest flick, They Will Kill You, at the annual BlerDCon conference in Washington, D.C. Beetz plays Asia Reaves, a woman who takes on a job at The Virgil, a prestigious and […]
Joy-Ann Reid got fired on her day off, but ultimately, it was for the best. Last February, the acclaimed author and journalist got word that The Reid Out, her highly rated, award-winning weeknight show, had been cancelled as part of a major shake-up with the network she now comically refers to as “the artist formerly […]
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 […]