Cover Stars

Coco Jones: Our Spring 2015 Cover Girl!

Not that Coco hasn’t already lit up the scene before (hello, she starred alongside Trevor Jackson and Tyler James Williams in Let it Shine), but this year, she’s set to take things to a whole ‘nother level — as an independent artist, a new high school grad, and an official Cali girl. In the spring […]

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Black History

This Teen Was on the Front Lines on “Bloody Sunday”

Lynda Lowery was only 14 years old when she joined about 600 others at Selma, Alabama’s Edmund Pettus Bridge 50 years ago today (March 7, 1965). The plan was to march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery to protest voter discrimination. Instead, she and the others with her only made it to the […]

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Celebs

Zendaya Accepts Giuliana Rancic’s Apology Like the Boss that She Is

So, yesterday we filled y’all in on the Giuliana Rancic-Zendaya-comment drama that went down on Fashion Police Monday night. To recap: Giuliana basically said that Zendaya’s Oscar’s red carpet dreads looked like she must smell of “patchouli oil and weed.” Zendaya handled things with so much class and following Z’s post, Giuliana tweeted an apology […]

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Stereotyping and Racism

Zendaya Claps Back and Slays

Besides the excitement of “Glory” winning the Oscar for Best Original Song (yasssss!), the other most talked about thing from the awards show comes straight from the red carpet. Zendaya’s hair. Giuliana Rancic, host of Fashion Police, took to her show the Monday after the Oscars to say this about 18-year-old Zendaya’s red carpet dreadlock […]

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Love etc.

How You Can Take Action Against Teen Dating Violence

With every relationship, there’ll be those breakups to makeups. Bae isn’t perfect and neither are you, and sometimes that birthday cake-and-rainbows feeling you have toward each other fades a little bit. That’s normal. What’s not normal? If any of those breakups, makeups, and times in between include violence. And not just the punching, hitting, pushing, […]

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Movies

Alexandra Shipp is X-Men’s New Storm

Ok, so if we’re keeping things all the way 100, Drumline: A New Beat and Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B didn’t quite work out for Alexandra Shipp. But recently, she nabbed the role of Storm in the X-Men prequel, X-Men: Apocolypse, which is set to hit theaters in 2016. Not only that, but this 23-year-old starlet also has […]

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High School

20 Songs You Have to Have on Your Wake-Up Playlist

You’re not a morning person. At. All. We get it — early mornings can get rough, especially after a night full of after-school activities, homework, and phone convos with bae that can last past midnight. But we also know that with a playlist of bomb music, early mornings can become much more bearable. Get your Soundclouds and […]

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