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How New York defined rap's attitude
1 year, 5 months ago

How New York defined rap's attitude

NPR  

How New York defined rap's attitude Enlarge this image toggle caption Frazer Harrison / Paras Griffin / Scott Gries / Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images Frazer Harrison / Paras Griffin / Scott Gries / Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of …

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Emani Corcran: Being Vegan Doesn't Change Your Experience Of Blackness
1 year, 10 months ago

Emani Corcran: Being Vegan Doesn't Change Your Experience Of Blackness

Huff Post  

Illustration: Benjamin Currie/HuffPost; Photo: Courtesy of Emani Corcran, Getty "Changing the way you eat will not change your experience of Blackness or the connection to culture and food," Emani Corcran said. Emani Corcran is the creator behind BLK+Vegan on Instagram, Tiktok and YouTube and the author of the upcoming cookbook, “BLK + Vegan.” In this edition of Voices In Food, …

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Nikyatu Jusu’s ‘Nanny’ contains a ‘hard lesson.’ She’s learned one about Hollywood too
2 years, 1 month ago

Nikyatu Jusu’s ‘Nanny’ contains a ‘hard lesson.’ She’s learned one about Hollywood too

LA Times  

“Nanny” filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu in the Los Angeles Times photo studio at RBC House during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. “How do you use your rage?” Both reminder and affirmation, this impactful question comes from writer, director and scholar Nikyatu Jusu’s feature debut, “Nanny,” in theaters Nov. 23 and on Prime Video Dec. 16. There is a warmth …

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Yvonne Orji needed convincing to buy that ‘Insecure’ finale: ‘I never want to settle’
2 years, 11 months ago

Yvonne Orji needed convincing to buy that ‘Insecure’ finale: ‘I never want to settle’

LA Times  

The following story contains spoilers from the series finale of “Insecure.” Though “Insecure” ends with a wedding, the season finale’s most tender and affectionate exchange is not between Molly and her husband Taurean. And girl, I don’t know where life is gonna take us, but I just know that as long as you’re around, I’ma be OK.” “Yeah,” Issa replies …

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The Ivy League reigns on TV. This new show wants to make HBCUs ‘the A story’
3 years, 5 months ago

The Ivy League reigns on TV. This new show wants to make HBCUs ‘the A story’

LA Times  

Market Fridays where students can shop from local Black vendors. Premiering Monday on The CW, the pilot of “Homecoming,” a spinoff of the L.A.-set high school drama “All American,” stars Clark Atlanta University alumna Geffri Maya and “The Quad’s” Peyton Alex Smith, who briefly attended Florida A&M University, in a story set at the fictional Bringston University in Atlanta. “I …

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Abolish anti-Blackness: Hair and racism in South Africa
4 years ago

Abolish anti-Blackness: Hair and racism in South Africa

Al Jazeera  

In September, popular South African health and beauty retailer Clicks sparked widespread anger after publishing an The online People were outraged; angry posts filled social media, crowds gathered to protest outside Clicks stores, and thousands called the company out for discrimination. Beyond the policies themselves, the enforcement of these rules had echoes of apartheid-style policing: Institutional white authorities – in …

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I Have A White Boyfriend. Does That Make Me Any Less Black?
4 years, 4 months ago

I Have A White Boyfriend. Does That Make Me Any Less Black?

Huff Post  

The author, Laura Cathcart Robbins, and her boyfriend, Scott Slaughter. He’s even read “White Fragility.” Back in the ’90s, I was the one my friends referred to as “militant” because I was known to throw low-key shade at my friends who dated white men. I wanted to clap back at Ronald and tell him how wrong he had me, that …

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Gabrielle Union is teaching her children to embrace their natural hair and ‘have pride in their blackness’
4 years, 5 months ago

Gabrielle Union is teaching her children to embrace their natural hair and ‘have pride in their blackness’

The Independent  

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