2000s
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Strong Black Sitcoms: Yes, You Can Watch Some of Your Fave '90s and '00s Black TV Shows on Netflix Soon
Remember when UPN was considered a Black mecca for TV shows back in the day? Well, nowadays, the ‘N’ stands for Netflix because it looks like the popular streaming platform is trying to recreate a little bit of that magic! Netflix has acquired the rights to stream Moesha, The Game (Seasons 1-3), Sister, Sister, Girlfriends,…
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'Thanks Black One': This TikTok Video Perfectly Encapsulates Being the Black Sidekick in a Movie
Remember how it was such a big deal when Neo (Keanu Reeves) finally realized he was “The One” in The Matrix? Take all of the power and acclaim from that feeling, replace it with patronizing stereotypes, add a dash of microaggression and you have, “The Black One,” also known as the Token Black Friend. TV…
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Kimora Brought Back the Iconic Cat, But Did Baby Phat’s Return Bring the Nostalgia We Were Craving?
When we learned yesterday that Baby Phat’s highly anticipated relaunch would be kicked off by a collab with Forever 21, we were curious to see what the partnership would turn out, clothing-wise. It was … cute. But while the rollerskating-themed campaign—including cameos by Kimora Lee Simmons Leissner’s daughters, Ming and Aoki, and Kim Porter and…
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The Cat Is Back? Forever 21 Teases a Collab With Baby Phat
When Kimora Lee Simmons Leissner recently announced the reacquisition and relaunch of Baby Phat, we were admittedly curious how the early aughts silhouettes would be reimagined for a 2019 audience. But apparently, the former model turned designer is way ahead of us, seemingly having inked a deal to stage the label’s return to retail through…
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Boss Moves: Kimora Lee Simmons Announces the Reacquisition and Relaunch of Baby Phat
There is a certain generation of women *cough* who remember well the once-ubiquitous presence of the Baby Phat logo, a sinewy, sexy cat that seemed to peer out at us from cropped puffer jackets, velour tracksuits and jean pockets everywhere in the late 1990s to early-aughts. That cat was rumored to have been modeled after…
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Drake Threw Himself a 2000s-Themed Birthday Bash and We Officially Feel Old
We don’t know how old you were during the “Y2K” scare, but some of us were already fully grown adults with emerging careers (and, in some cases, families). So leave it to borderline-problematic fave Drake to throw some peak-millennial shade, reminding us that he was but a tender 14 years old at the turn of…
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Unfortunate Fashion Choices Of Decades Past
It’s the early aughts in NYC. A young East African girl (by way of Canada) is preparing for her sophomore year of high school in the North Bronx. She had just spent the summer with her family in France, and just KNEW she was ready to be fresh to death with her back-to-school outfit. At…