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The Obamas sign multiyear Netflix production deal

Netflix, the world’s leading online streaming entertainment company, has just signed a multiyear... more

by Isra Ibrahim

“Why can’t we just let Black people enjoy something?”

‘MTV Shuga’ is a messy millennial edutainment series educating African youth about sexual health

16 Black actresses protest anti-Blackness in the industry at Cannes Film Festival

Review Roundup: Zora Neale Hurston’s book on one of the last Africans in the Atlantic slave trade

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When your mother is your first abuser

Tina Knowles reveals she put her daughters in counseling at an early age

NBA winner Jacqueline Woodson releases excerpt from new book, “Harbor Me”

Janelle Monáe and the road to ‘Dirty Computer’

Black women have been organizing against R. Kelly since long before his #MeToo reckoning

Jordan Peele reveals title of new film, Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke rumored to star

Junot Díaz accused of sexual harassment and sexist behavior

Childish Gambino’s racially charged “This is America” draws criticism, praise

‘Time’s Up’ sets sights on R.Kelly

I don’t want as many “chances” to f*ck up as Kanye

Nia DaCosta wins Nora Ephron Award at Tribeca Film Festival for ‘Little Woods”

Janelle Monae confirms her queerness ahead of release of ‘Dirty Computer’

We let Kanye get away with being Kanye for too long

Janelle Monáe’s ‘Pynk’ subtly acknowledges the existence of trans bodies, but we deserve more than that

The tragedy and hilarity of Iyanla Vanzant’s ‘Fix My Life’ antics with Hazel-E

Kendrick Lamar becomes first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize

WATCH: Beyoncé turned Coachella into #Beychella and put on ‘for the culture’

White liberals stay predicting dystopias caused by whiteness—without doing anything about it

Black dreams and storytelling have long been a part of the push towards Black liberation

“The Shape of Water” and the problem with “privilege”: Escaping oppression at the expense of destroying it

For Black girls who don’t tesser well

Marvel taps Nnedi Okorafor to write Wakanda Forever series starring the Dora Milaje

“Use your white voice”: Why the ‘Sorry to Bother You’ trailer speaks to me

Sonya Renee Taylor’s ‘The Body Is Not An Apology’: Unlocking the radical self-love that is already ours

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