culture
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The 2016 Wypipo Awards
We’d like to welcome you to the annual Wypipo Awards. For those of you attending for the first time, these awards are not focused on all white people. Instead, this is a ceremony that celebrates the subset of the Caucasian constituency constantly complaining that the BET Awards, the NAACP Awards and even the Soul Train…
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WATCH: #SleighTheGame: How Much Do You Know About the Holidays?
The holidays are for food, family and fun, so we’re giving you an extra dose of the latter as we play #SleighTheGame, which is basically holiday trivia. We tapped our social media guy, Corey Townsend and one of our biggest supporters, Ty Alexander of Gorgeous in Grey and asked them to show us just how…
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From Relaxers to Some Shampoos: Too Many Products Marketed to Black Women Are Bad for You
I have spent plenty of shopping trips browsing the “ethnic hair care” aisle. Women of color know all too well the constant hunt for the perfect product. As our hair-care knowledge, needs and routines (not to mention the seasons) change, we restock our product drawers accordingly. Whether you have a relaxer or are now natural,…
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Generation KKK: A&E Changes Docuseries Title, Partners With ColorOfChange Amid Backlash
Updated Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, 7:30 p.m. ET: On Saturday, A&E issued a statement saying it was canceling its show Escaping the KKK because its participants were paid, a violation of the network’s policy. Read more here. Earlier: After facing severe backlash across social media, A&E has announced that it is revamping its documentary series…
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Watch: The Cast of Fences Share Their Experience in Making Such an Important Film
Before his death in 2005, August Wilson optioned Fences as a feature film. He was adamant about wanting a black director, saying: “I declined a white director, not on the basis of race, but on the basis of culture. White directors are not qualified for the job. The job requires someone who shares the specifics…
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Review: Fences Is an Acting and Directorial Feast Fit for August Wilson's Words
August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences has finally made it to the big screen, directed by Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington. Wilson’s masterful storytelling about a working-class family living in a historic Pittsburgh neighborhood and fighting for survival, personally and professionally, jumps off the screen under Washington’s brilliant direction. Wilson’s splendid storytelling blends perfectly with…
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Hidden Figures Upholds the Legacy of 3 Extraordinary Black Women Who Changed the World
Hidden Figures is the riveting and inspirational story of three black female mathematicians who excelled against all odds at NASA. Many of us are just now learning their names: Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughn. So much of our history has been omitted from the curricula of many schools. That’s a huge chunk of…
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Fences Reminds Me That Loving My Son Means Rejecting Fatherhood
“Your firstborn son gots to be a junior,” my barber ordered. In the weeks before my son’s birth, the person who regularly gave me a razor lining insisted that I bestow my full name on my child. Nodding men in the shop unanimously agreed. “Man, you’ve got a great name,” he added, meaning that I…
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Kim Kardashian Should Not Be Blamed for the F–kery of Kanye West
When Kanye “He’ll leave your ass for a white girl” West and Kim Kardashian married in May 2014, the world knew that it would be a match made in heaven: two egos finally becoming one in holy matrimony. Kanye West, a man who has had an infatuation with stereotypically beautiful women—read: women who have a…
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Go for ‘Peak Blackness’ This Holiday With These Dishes From the Diaspora
How was your first helping of the holiday meals? Did you go in on all of your favorites when you went home for the holidays, as if mini marshmallows only exist within a 1-mile radius of your parents’ home … for three days of the year? Did you try the corn-pudding recipe from the founder…