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What's New and Black on Netflix? It's March Madness, So Welcome to the Space Jam!
Everybody get up, it’s time to slam now because we’ve got another month of Netflix’s Strong Black Lead content for y’all! For the sports fans, March means madness—also known as college basketball. If you’re in a hoopin’ mood, Michael Jordan’s foray into the Looney Tunes world, Space Jam, is now on Netflix. (Also, if you’re…
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'It's a Greedy Game': Megan Thee Stallion Claims Her Record Label Won't Let Her Release New Music Due to Contract Dispute [Updated]
After a tumultuous Black History Month, we’re entering Women’s History Month with more controversy. This time, it involves what seems to be the exploitation of a black woman in the music industry. On Sunday, in a clip from Megan Thee Stallion’s Instagram Live that surfaced on Twitter, the 25-year-old artist claimed her record label 1501…
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How Ford Inspired Young Black Girls to Believe They're 'Built Phenomenally' to Create Production Magic
For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a creator. Whether it was making mini-movies with the cast of my Barbie dolls or writing down short stories that often danced around in my head, I’ve always managed to find a way to express the goings-on in my rich imagination. That’s why I…
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There Were Red Flags Waving All Over Snoop Dogg’s Red Table Talk
I, along with a bulk of the industry, am noticing a trend. If you fuck up in the public relations realm, you better go to Red Table Talk to fix it. The most recent example was T.I., when he decided to take one giant misogynistic leap for mankind and claim ownership of his daughter’s hymen.…
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This Is Us: Sterling K. Brown Gives Us a Peek Behind the 'Clouds' of Randall Pearson's Anxiety
Just when I thought This Is Us had completely wrecked me, its beautiful emotional terror has found another hidden ventricle in my heart. As soon as I saw the title of Episode 415, “Clouds,” I knew I was about to be treated to my favorite Joni Mitchell song, “Both Sides Now” (fun fact: I actually…
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Jussie Smollett Expected To Plead Not Guilty To Six Counts of New Charges Alleging He Lied to Police
Just when you thought the previous plot twist was the end of the Jussie Smollett saga, there’s another plot twist to the plot twist. The actor is back in court, in relation to his previous claims that he was the target of a homophobic and racist attack in January 2019. According to Fox News, the…
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'A Malfunctioning SIMS Character': Twitter Did Not Give The Greatest Love to the Whitney Houston Hologram
In case you thought the Whitney Houston hologram was just a fever dream, we now have actual video footage of the upcoming technological advancement. Lord. So I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the concept of the hologram in the first place but hey, it’s not my call. As CNN reported: Pat Houston, the pop star’s sister-in-law,…
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BET META 2020: Are Black Male Voters Forgotten? T.I. Says the Government Has an 'Agenda to Remove Us Out of the Picture'
On Thursday, BET hosted an intimate one-day event “focused exclusively on driving African American voters to the polls by harnessing the power of media, entertainment, and technology sectors” called the META:2020 conference. Essentially, it served as a collective of action-driven goals intentionally held during the weekend of the NAACP Image Awards, with more programming to…
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BIST, or the 'Black EGOT': Celebrating the Elite Who've Won a BET Award, NAACP Image Award and Soul Train Award
Two—that’s the number of black people who have an EGOT, that is, at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. Whoopi Goldberg and John Legend are a part of that elite 15-member club. Cynthia Erivo, Billy Porter and Viola Davis are almost there. Unfortunately, we can’t count on irregular trends that may arise when…
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Bigger Is Better With a Season 2 Pickup, and You Should Be Watching It On BET+
You know that moment when you walk out of an experience and realize you’re still smiling much, much later? That’s the effect Bigger had on me. What is Bigger? BET can answer that, via their official press release: Season one of Bigger follows Layne, a single-black-woman and her close-knit group of 30-somethings as they navigate…
