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Rihanna Under Fire (Again) for Cultural Appropriation—and 'Interference' in Indian Politics [Updated]
Rihanna is a global superstar—but that doesn’t mean even her best intentions are globally well-received. The star of stage, screen, Sephora and Savage once again turned heads on Tuesday when she posted a picture of herself provocatively posed in a pair of satin trunks by her lingerie brand, Savage X Fenty—and little else. However, what…
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28 Days of Black Joy: Experiencing Black Joy Together
Does Black joy exist if there’s no one to share it with? I imagine that one could make the argument that Black joy could be an individual act, pointing to the joy that one feels within self, and that’s real. But through my life experiences—and recent conversations with scholar André Brock and founder of The…
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Draymond Green Is Big Mad (Again) and He Might Have a Point
In basketball, there’s nothing more embarrassing than pulling out the box score and seeing “DNP”—an initialism for Did Not Play—next to your name. Especially when you’re not hindered by any specific injury and you’re statistically one of the best at your position in the entire league. But that’s exactly what happened to Andre Drummond of…
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28 Days of Joy: Shoutout to the Black YouTubers Who Stay Bringing the Joy
YouTube is a wonderful thing, y’all. While, yes, the platform does have a litany of issues and controversies, it’s still one of the coolest hubs of creativity on the internet. While the pandemic has caused a disruptive effect in just about all forms of entertainment, YouTubers have more or less kept trucking along. While YouTube…
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28 Days of Black Joy: Going Down South to 'Infinite' Cousins
Like many a child of the Great Migration, all my extended family actually lived nowhere near me. My mother “escaped” Arkansas for Iowa right after graduating from Philander Smith College in Little Rock to become a school teacher, but Iowa was too cold, too white, and too far from her ancestral home, so she moved…
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28 Days of Black Joy: Mountain Hiking In Ukraine
Twenty years ago, you could not have paid me to sit on grass, touch anything outside that a bug or animal had itself rested its bottom on or consume something that had grown out of the Earth without it first being rinsed in a sink inside the walls of a well-sanitized building. Now, you can’t…
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28 Days of Black Joy: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered New Content When the Reruns Are Enuf
My Netflix account hates me. There are only so many emails, push notifications and alerts the streaming platform can send me (cough, and that I can ignore, cough) about watching the latest, most anticipated, or record-breaking series and movies before I potentially face some serious, unknown ramifications like a character in an episode of Black…
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A History of Black Excellence: The Mad King and Black Queen Who Built Black Wall Street (No, Not That One)
When an angry white mob bombed, lynched, shot and slaughtered the Black residents in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Okla., on May 31, 1921, they did not destroy Black Wall Street. They destroyed one of the Black Wall Streets. In fact, before the tragic events in Greenwood, if the producers of Family Feud had asked…
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Black BTS Fans Share Why They 'Purple' This K-Pop Group
“Black people, we’re not a monolith. But I feel like sometimes, you know, we kind of look at each other funny for being into things that don’t fit within the box of ‘Blackness,’ which I think can be kind of limiting sometimes. Like, I love my Blackness. And yours.” —Sabrena Khadija, Illustrator and K-pop fan…