First Lady Michelle Obama’s Carpool Karaoke episode was just the carefree Black girl magic we all needed. We already knew she could flow, so when she told host James Corden to “crank it up” because she’d only been able to “rock out” in the front passenger’s seat of a car once in the almost eight […]
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Before #BlackLivesMatter, we had the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, and the Congress of Racial Equality — each of which had student activists who led and participated in the Movement. From Freedom Rides to sit-ins to marches to the creation of social programs to boycotts, people your age took action […]
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Bey, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Janelle Monae, and several other celebs joined together to create the short video, “23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America.” Released today, this powerful video packs a whole lotta #truth into just two minutes and 43 seconds by having each celebrity recall incidents over the past […]
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It looks like Tony Stark will be hanging up his Iron Man suit soon, and when he does, Riri Williams — a new Marvel character — will put it on. According to TIME, Riri is so beast at science — genius level, in fact — that she gets to enroll in MIT at the age […]
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It’s hard not to feel hopeless when you’re constantly seeing murders of people who look like you unfolding in front of your eyes on social media and on TV. Sure, we know these atrocities have been going on for 400+ years, but now, we are more aware of just how often these things go down. […]
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A new set of signature leotards, a line of training products, and a brand partnership with Hershey’s aren’t the only things 19-year-old Simone Biles has racked up on her Road to Rio. Last week, she shattered a 42-year record by winning four consecutive national championships, in which she slayed routines on the beam, the vault, […]
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We started out live tweeting the BET Awards for the first hour of the show last night, but as you know, there were just so many bomb things happening that we got all up in our feelings and needed some time to gather our thoughts. And here they are wrapped up in our 8 fave […]
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KeKe Palmer surprised more than a few fans last year with her “I Don’t Belong To You” video. (If you haven’t seen it yet, she leaves her boyfriend for another girl.) The Scream Queens star took it one step further when she came out as sexually fluid soon after. Then, in December, Amandla Stenberg came […]
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There are just 54 days left until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, and Gabby Douglas is gearing up in more ways than one. Besides perfecting her gymnastics routines in time to score big at the trials next month and be even closer to defending her 2012 title, this 20-year-old gold medalist is also helping […]
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Zendaya doesn’t just have the acting and singing game on lock. She’s also known to slay every red carpet she steps onto — decked out in her new shoe line that launched this spring, obviously. And that first set was only the beginning. As reported by Footwear News, Z’s already got her next collection in […]
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