What’s better than true beauty? Women who are truthful about what it takes to be beautiful. That’s why we’re…
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This 2020 census business is getting messy—and tricky. Not only are at least a dozen states and the NAACP suing the…
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Look, I’m not one to question anyone’s credentials, but when I heard the cockamamy scheme that attorneys for DMX…
15. Your dreams (and not like your hopes and dreams and shit—people should care about those—but the dream you had…
After more than two centuries of providing America with classics like the AR-15-style assault weapon used to mow…
Here’s some #BlackJoy and #BlackGirlMagic to help carry you through your Monday.
I’ve been impressed by these kids from day one! As for the media’s lack of black representation? Same ole, same ole - same as it’s ever been: black suffering does not rise to the level of white suffering in our culture and I don’t see that changing any time soon. But let’s be honest here, there are black celebrities &…
People of color in this country, in this culture, tend to not matter as much as those who are white; that is the truth of America. In the Black Lives Matter movement, young black people have been shouting from the rooftops until their voices are raw and hoarse, and America hasn’t listened. But now that it’s white kids…
The kids are alright.
During an Axios event Friday that focused on the national gun debate, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student…
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It’s #SisterhoodSaturday here at The Glow Up, so it’s only natural to feature one of our favorite sister-acts, Chloe…
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In 1992, our own Veronica Webb made history by becoming the first black model to land a major cosmetics contract.…
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On Sunday, March 18, police in Sacramento, Calif., fired 20 shots at Stephon Clark, killing him. Clark was unarmed…
“The officers feared for their lives, so they shot … ”
Negus (noun): king, ruler—used as a title of the sovereign of Ethiopia, according to Merriam-Webster.
Police in Sacramento, Calif., shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own backyard Sunday night after mistaking…
I used to think me trying to commit suicide at 14 was extremely harsh at a young age. At 34, my depression still gives me the ass whooping of a life time but I’ve had time to gain understanding of it.
After receiving photographic evidence that one of its employees was affiliated with some of the most notorious hate…
Charles Weatherspoon was preparing lunch for his family Jan. 4 when he told his son, Charles, to run some vitamins…
In some cases internalized homophobia is scarier than the external conditions that gays face. Internalized homophobia wears down mental health and can lead to violent actions. He was a prisoner within his own mind. His situation is not surprising at all.