When I left the movie theater after a 10 pm show back in April 2025, I felt energized. I had just come from seeing Sinners, glued to my seat until the post-credits…
TRENDING READS
Grills have been interwoven into Black culture for decades. With the trend becoming popularized in late 1970s New York City, it became a widespread phenomenon in areas like Houston, Atlanta and Miami…
Whether you watch the news every night or spend hours scrolling social media, it’s obvious that our attention is being pulled in all different directions as the world faces crisis after crisis.…
There are so many forces in the world that make it hard for an artist to keep going. In an era where you can record, mix, and master a song and release…
Back in 2024, there was a loud, widely applauded digital reckoning against people-pleasing. From self-help creators to TikTok psychologists to, honestly, just fed-up friends online, everyone echoed the same sentiment, “Anyone who…
When media entrepreneur Les Alfred first entered the media scene, her goal was to become a magazine editor, but once she realized that the rapidly changing media landscape was nothing like the…
As a little girl, I can remember dreaming about the career I would have one day more than I dreamt about being someone’s wife or mother. I idolized the women I saw…
STAY CONNECTED
CULTURE
WELLNESS
DATING & RELATIONSHIPS
We’ve met (or tried to meet) potential partners everywhere—parties, speed dating, conferences, Homecoming, maybe even aisle 9 at Trader Joe’s. And yet, for many Black singles, the dating pool feels like a…
