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Please Avoid These 10 Halloween Costumes
It’s near inevitable: Every year, hurricanes hit our coasts and destruction blooms, and every year, Halloween hits and people wear costumes so inappropriate, you shake your head in disapproval, Big Mama style. We like you too much to let you go out in public looking cray-cray. Please, use this guide as a litmus test. If…
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President Obama and First Lady, Please Do These 10 Blackest Things Before You Leave
The Obamas haven’t been the typical presidential family. From moving Michelle’s mama into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to hosting rappers and poetry sessions, this couple has done away with tradition and brought some much-needed life (and color) to the White House. Now, with only a few months until they leave the Oval Office, there are 10…
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The Top 7 Moments We Did Not See Coming on This Week’s HTGAWM
You can’t touch Annalise (or her crew), and after another intense episode of How to Get Away With Murder, we discovered seven moments that reveal why you can’t touch them. You can dive into the recap, but the short answer? You can’t even come close to them because so much of what they do comes straight up out…
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10 Signs You Might Be Bougie
We’ve seen them on TV—from Whitley Gilbert on A Different World to Olivia Pope in Scandal: bougie black folk. Some wear their bougie with pride, like a scout badge, while others fight it ferociously, as if you had just called them a racist cop. You (or someone you know) may be bougie: full, half or…
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The 6 Best Clapbacks of This Week’s HTGAWM
Hit them and they’ll hit you back, literally and figuratively. Through pimp slaps, suspensions and black eyes, this was the week of stellar clapbacks, with nearly everyone slinging shade. This episode of How to Get Away With Murder begins with Annalise crying up snot in a jail cell. She is rocking and moaning like she missed…
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8 Ways They'll Try to Stop You From Voting and How to Fight Back
It started in 2000, right after one of the narrowest presidential elections in history, and it surged again, right after President Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008: voter suppression. (Humph, wonder why.) From limited voting access, stringent ID requirements and gerrymandering to criminal disenfranchisement, voter suppression is on the rise. Why? Because one group of…
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The Top 9 'Oh, No, She Didn’t’ Moments from the Season 3 Premiere of HTGAWM
The Keating Five are back with the top mean girl herself, professor Annalise Keating (played by Viola Davis) in the ABC hit How to Get Away With Murder. Now, don’t get mad at me for calling her a mean girl. She’s only mean if you get in her way, mess with her clients or mess…
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Say Goodbye to Rio, Where Black Women's Bodies Were Celebrated
Simone Biles is known for her body: its power, its capabilities and the heights to which it propels her. I am completely mesmerized by it. I’m not sure if it’s the beauty of her black body prancing; her short, muscular legs seemingly defying physics; or the ease with which she does it all—with a confident,…
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The 6 Times This Year the US Gave African Americans Reasons Not to Celebrate Independence Day
The U.S. loves its holidays—from the patriotic red, white and blue Fourth to the fake ones (hint, hint: Columbus Day). Given this, it’s only fitting that black Americans acknowledge how “good ol’ America” has treated us so far this year. Let’s take a moment to commemorate and raise a glass to celebrate our status as…
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