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Great Black Autobiographies You Must Add to Your Reading List [UPDATED]
Check out these powerful autobiographies that tell the true stories behind some of our most influential Black Americans.
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11 Reasons Love Jones Is A Romance for The Ages
The 1997 romantic comedy still gives me all the feels every time I watch it
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Jazz, Cocktails, and Conversation Abound for This Week's Round of Virtual Events
Alright, alright, alriiiiight. April is here and what better way to commemorate yet another month in this pandemic (booo) than by attending some fun (online) events! Though the seemingly unending nature of this panoramic continues to relegate our good times indoors, if there’s anything we’ve learned over this past year— it’s that just because it’s…
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For the Culture: Spend This Long Weekend With Some of Our Greatest Authors and Artists
Right about now, you’re hopefully on your third (or fourth) round of leftovers, giving new meaning to the term “comfort food”—and no judgments, since we can use all the comfort we can get as this tortured year comes to a long-awaited close. But as you’re feeding your body, don’t forget to nurture your mind and…
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Burning Cane—One of This Year’s Most Acclaimed Black Films—Joins the Urbanworld Lineup
Dubbed “one of the most exciting black films of the year,” festival-circuit darling Burning Cane will be screened at this year’s 23rd Urbanworld Film Festival, which will take place in New York City from Sept. 18-22. The much-buzzed-about film stars Wendell Pierce as a Louisiana preacher in a film that examines the impact religion has…
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Meshell Ndegeocello Is Right About Bruno Mars Being Karaoke, but I’m Bopping Anyway
Meshell Ndegeocello did not mince words when asked about my beloved Puerto Rican Frankie Lymon, better known as Bruno Mars to the rest of y’all. In an interview with Billboard to promote Ventriloquism, an album of covers, the singer-songwriter and musician made clear that she wasn’t impressed with Mars’ performance of the “Finesse” remix featuring…
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Meshell Ndegeocello’s 72-Year-Old Mother Reported Missing
Meshell Ndegeocello is reaching out to her fans on social media to help her find her missing mother. According to Prince George’s County, Md., police, 72-year-old Helen Byrd Johnson, who suffers from dementia, went missing in Oxon Hill, Md., on Monday, April 10, and and was driving a gray Ford Taurus with Maryland tag No.…