k-pop
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My Hip-Hop Story: Celia Rose Gooding On The Strange New World Of Music That Redefined Pop Culture
As part of our Hip-Hop: '73 Till Infinity series, the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actress describes how she fell in love with hip hop over and over again.
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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…
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Women Are Prospering: Megan Thee Stallion Is in Wonderland and Cardi B Is Tickled Blackpink
TGIF—and the ‘F’ stands for female…or maybe femme…due to that pesky misogyny, I can barely read the word “female” without thinking of “feeeeemale” (aka the trying-to-be-slick sexist replacement for ‘bitch’). Anyway! The queens of WAP have both released some big deal projects so we figured it would be best to keep up the pattern of…
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Wypipo Wite-Out: K-Pop Fans Use Social Media Privilege to Drown Out #WhiteLivesMatter Hashtags
We have to admit—#BlackOutTuesday didn’t go the way its originators intended. Though we tried to alleviate a bit of confusion with a quick explainer that morning, some of the spiraling was unavoidable and unfortunately, the intended message was lost in the muddled mess. However, today is a brand new day and a new opportunity to…