Category: Culture

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🎃 Black Sitcom Halloween Episodes: The Ultimate Watchlist for a Cozy Night In or a Watch Party With Friends

🎃 Black Sitcom Halloween Episodes: The Ultimate Watchlist for a Cozy Night In or a Watch Party With Friends

From Martin and Living Single to Girlfriends, Family Matters, Abbott Elementary, and more. There is something special about revisiting the televisi [...]
Because They Refused Jim Crow, We Walk Through Different Doors

Because They Refused Jim Crow, We Walk Through Different Doors

October 7, 1955: Ella Fitzgerald Arrested After Performing Before an Integrated Audience in Houston We live inside freedoms that somebody else had to [...]
10 Lessons from The Forever Tree for Black Women, Girls, and Survivors Who Have Learned to Play Small

10 Lessons from The Forever Tree for Black Women, Girls, and Survivors Who Have Learned to Play Small

There is something quietly radical about The Forever Tree. Tawny Bennett, played by Olivia Washington, is a young Black woman living during the Har [...]
Angie Stone, Roberta Flack & Gwen McCrae: The Power of Their Musical Legacy

Angie Stone, Roberta Flack & Gwen McCrae: The Power of Their Musical Legacy

Angie Stone’s Music Pulled Us Through—And Now, She’s Gone.   Angie Stone has passed, and somehow, it still doesn’t feel real. During one of my [...]
The Wishing Tree With Alfre Woodard: A Beautiful Movie About Finding Your Way Home + Full Movie

The Wishing Tree With Alfre Woodard: A Beautiful Movie About Finding Your Way Home + Full Movie

Sometimes you want a movie that doesn't demand everything from you. Something you can put on while folding clothes, answering emails, working on a [...]
7 Survival Lessons From Eve: Your Life Is Allowed to Have More Than One Act

7 Survival Lessons From Eve: Your Life Is Allowed to Have More Than One Act

Some chapters prove you can survive. Others remind you that survival was never supposed to be the whole story. I love Eve's music. Let me get th [...]
Steve Harvey Survived the Closed Door Because It Wasn’t His Only Door

Steve Harvey Survived the Closed Door Because It Wasn’t His Only Door

There is something Steve Harvey has been saying lately that I think is worth hearing beyond the celebrity story. Harvey has spoken about confli [...]
You Remember the Beat. But Do You Remember What Chubb Rock Was Saying?

You Remember the Beat. But Do You Remember What Chubb Rock Was Saying?

I have been thinking about Chubb Rock’s “Treat ’Em Right”. Maybe it is because I keep hearing people talk about hip-hop as though an entire generat [...]
Why Does He Get Angry When You’re Happy? When Your Joy Becomes a Problem in a Controlling Relationship

Why Does He Get Angry When You’re Happy? When Your Joy Becomes a Problem in a Controlling Relationship

Inspired by....... Why women’s laughter has long been treated as a threat | Psyche Ideas  Posted by Amy Diehl, Ph.D on X.com   Th [...]
Florida A&M Marching 100: They Gave Dolly Parton Her Flowers Like Black HBCU Bands Do

Florida A&M Marching 100: They Gave Dolly Parton Her Flowers Like Black HBCU Bands Do

A great Black marching band performance is not casual praise. It is labor as praise. Somebody had to arrange “9 to 5” for that instrumentation. Music [...]
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