The Brooklyn-based label hosted one of several parties following Monday night's Met Gala, squaring off with none…
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Black Joy
As a Black woman, Martha Tucker wasn't allowed to try on wedding dresses ahead of her 1952 marriage. Her…
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The Purple One's basketball skills were famously immortalized by Dave Chappelle; Gordy is the latest to recall that…
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I have been smoking weed since I was 14 years old.
It all started over the past year when like many of us, I made a very hard turn into damn near exclusively buying…
“Bwown Natalie, Mommy!” In the limited repertoire of language I possessed at 2 years old—mostly comprised of …
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They used to call me “Cheekie.” They still do.
Mara Brock Akil’s iconic Girlfriends came back into our lives via Netflix last year, but though binge-watching the…
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I could never take naps as a kid.
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If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that I love yoga.
What happens to an auntie deferred?
Does Black joy exist if there’s no one to share it with?
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YouTube is a wonderful thing, y’all. While, yes, the platform does have a litany of issues and controversies, it’s…
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Like many a child of the Great Migration, all my extended family actually lived nowhere near me. My mother “escaped”…
Have you done the #BussitChallenge? Are you enjoying all the #SilhouetteChallenge videos? Do you follow Jay Nedaj on…
Twenty years ago, you could not have paid me to sit on grass, touch anything outside that a bug or animal had itself…
Originally, when I started thinking about what to write for this piece, I was gonna dedicate it to three Black women…
I live in the Blackest part of Stone Mountain, Ga.—which is predominantly Black anyway, but here it’s two churches…
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