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Our Aunties Oprah and Gayle Just Talked About Sex, and Now We Feel Weird
There are certain scenarios you just never want to envision, like Donald Trump doing naked double dutch, or Kevin Hart grand marshaling a Pride Parade. It just doesn’t feel right, ya know? Similarly, you really never want to imagine how your favorite aunties and uncles set the mood for sexy-time—which is kind of how those…
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The Year That Was: A Love Letter to Black Women
Dear beautiful black Queens, By any measure, 2018 was undeniably your year. Despite everything you face in this country—from the perilous minefield of race and gender that you tiptoe across on a daily basis, to your beauty, your value, and your health under constant siege from those entrusted to protect you, to the crippling realization…
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Oprah's Black Panther Party: Ryan, Chadwick, Michael, and the Best Cake Stedman Ever Had
Remember when Forrest Gump said, “Sorry for ruining your Black Panther party” at the end of one of the most hilarious scenes of his titular film? Well, that line wouldn’t be uttered at Oprah’s party, because her party (for the film, not the organization) was apparently perfect. As Vulture reported, Oprah hosted an exclusive party…
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Oprah's Reaction to Eating This White Woman's Seasonless Chicken is All of Us
Imagine a world bereft of Lawry’s. Potato salad defiled by acorns and raisins. Brussel sprouts and squash drowning in tubs of mac and cheese. For the Caucasian contingent, this is every day life. But for the rest of us, this is a fate reserved for nightmares and therapist couches. In 2006, a domestic terrorist by…
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Who’s That Lady? Oprah Leads Our Bimonthly Black Magazine Cover Roundup!
How’s this for recognizability: Elle India was so confident in Oprah’s famous image that acclaimed photographer Mark Seliger shot one of their two 22nd anniversary covers with the “queen of all media” facing away from camera, showing off a heavily embellished jacket by Anamika Khanna. On an alternate cover and inside the issue, we see…
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Beyoncé And Jay-Z Headline the 2018 Global Citizen Festival to Honor Nelson Mandela's Legacy
At a respectable hour—2:47 p.m. EST on Sunday, to be exact—Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z’s philanthropy and benevolence blessed the world with a performance during the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Unlike Beychella, which aired at an ungodly hour, Beyoncé and the father of her children hopped on South Africa’s…
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Sad News: Oprah's Mother, Vernita Lee, Died on Thanksgiving Day
Sad news for Oprah Winfrey and half-sister Patricia Amanda Faye Lee, as People confirms that their mother, Vernita Lee, died at her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at age 83 on Thanksgiving Day. No details on her cause of death have been given at this time. Winfrey is the eldest child of Lee, who was also…
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Thanks-living: How a Few of Our Faves Gave Thanks This Holiday
Real talks? We don’t all agree that Thanksgiving is a holiday worth celebrating. After all, its colonialist roots resulted in the genocide and marginalization of indigenous people—and later, imported and immigrating people—the effects of which persist to this day. So, yeah…there’s that. But as black folks have been doing for centuries (see: soul food), even…
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The Coronation of Our Queen Cicely Tyson at the 2018 Governors Awards
Last night, I had the privilege to attend the 2018 Governors Awards in Hollywood, Calif., and saw Cicely Tyson receive her honorary Oscar. She is the first black woman to ever win the honor. In a career that has spanned nearly 70 years, the 93-year-old actress has starred with some of the best and the…
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Vice President Pence to Oprah: ‘This Ain’t Hollywood’
On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence, the White House’s own version of Aaron Carter, was out stumping for Georgia gubernatorial candidate and current Georgia secretary of state and chief manipulator of votes, Brian Kemp. Pence, like the rest of America, has heard that Kemp’s opponent Stacey Abrams, the woman on the cusp of becoming the…