Last night’s live production of The Wiz had our timelines lit! Everyone was getting their life and beaming with pride just watching all that #BlackGirlMagic and #BlackExcellence dance across the stage in real time. (Of course, there were some people who, for reasons we’ll never understand, just didn’t get it, but anywayz… *gives a thousand […]
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Making gifs (or as Instagram prefers to call them, “mini videos”) of you and your friends to post on IG just got easier. Yesterday, Insta launched its newest app: Boomerang. Obviously, we downloaded it to our phones immediately because who can resist turning your selfies into hilariously cute one-second videos or recording your crush walking […]
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If you missed last night’s season 2 premiere of Black-ish, you missed LIFE! Right out the gate, their first episode back entitled “The Word” tackled the N-word. And on everything, they weren’t preachy about it at all. They handled it in the most hilarious way, while still calling out the horrible history of the word, […]
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Ya girl, Zendaya. Zoey + @Zendaya = double trouble 😜 https://t.co/eAuByHOzBi — Yara shahidi (@RealYaraShahidi) August 24, 2015 According to People, which first broke the news, the K.C. Undercover star landed a guest role as Resheida, new friend of Zoey (played by our winter 2014 cover girl, Yara Shahidi). Word on the street is, Zendaya’s […]
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It’s high school, not an episode of LHHATL, but there can still be so. much. drama. In her new video, Nia shows that the best way to squash every hater’s shade is by slaying it all day, every day — just by doin’ you. The track’s beat is on fleek and the video itself is […]
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It’s seemed like forever since Trevor Jackson teased his newest EP “In My Feelings” on Instagram earlier this year, but FINALLY , it’s here!! The mixtape is seriously 14 tracks of hot fire — and here’s a quick look at our absolute faves: II Timothy We get all in our feelings, too, when Trev’s grandma […]
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No lie, the buzz about BET’s new scripted comedy The Start Up has been circulating for two years now. When the news first dropped back in summer 2013, it was set to be a movie and had a lineup of different actors (except Diggy — he’s always been on deck to star). Then, in 2014 BET hinted […]
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O.M.G. Did you see last night’s episode of Catfish??!! If you missed it, here’s a super quick recap (no spoilers): So, basically a girl named Falesha e-mailed Nev and Max about this other girl named Jacqueline who’d been cyberbullying her since she was about 14 years old. (She’s pushing 20 now.) She tells them that […]
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Today, June 30, 2015, Misty Copeland was promoted from soloist to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. Even though the Theatre has been around for 75 years, Misty is the FIRST Black girl to ever claim this title, the highest one you can get in the ABT! During the announcement, she was feeling all […]
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Remember when you fell in love with hip-hop? Sprite does. And apparently it’s been down with the scene since the ’80s. Over the past three decades, Sprite’s even partnered up with hit makers like Missy Elliot, Common, and even Kris Kross! Talk about a throwback. This summer, they’ve #turntup their packaging to show the mad […]
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