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Brown Sugar Is Still Just As Sweet As The First Time We Fell In Love With It

DashDividers_1_500x100 Welcome to Love Like This?, a romance column where we, Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Ineye Komonibo, revisit some of the most romantic — or not, in hindsight — scenes in Black film and TV history. Brown Sugar is a film that, like a good hip-hop song, hits differently depending on what […]

The UK’s Average House Price Just Reached A Record High

It’s no secret that getting on the property ladder is incredibly difficult without help from the bank of mum and dad. Forever renting is fast becoming the new normal as house prices continue to rise. In fact, the average house price in the UK has just reached £250,000 for the […]

Black Women On Reality Dating Shows Are Rarely Finding Love. Instead, They’re Securing The Bag

Finding love on reality TV has exploded in popularity within the last decade, leading to a wave of new dating shows. Though the formats for attaining a partner on these shows are decidedly different — weeding out assholes to find Mr. Right (Fckboy Island), abstaining from sex to inspire emotional […]

Why A Popular Gamer’s Blue-Light Skin-Care Line Totally Flopped

Why A Popular Gamer’s Blue-Light Skin-Care Line Totally Flopped

On 19th October, YouTube creator Rachel “Valkyrae” Hofstetter, currently the most-watched female streamer, announced the launch of RFLCT, a skin-care line designed to protect against blue-light pollution from the screen. The line was quickly met with criticism and concern, however, from her fans, fellow creators, and Reddit users alike regarding […]

Colourism Clouds The Rich Imagination Of The Harder They Fall

Colourism Clouds The Rich Imagination Of The Harder They Fall

THE HARDER THEY FALL: ZAZIE BEETZ as MARY FIELDS in THE HARDER THEY FALL Cr. DAVID LEE/NETFLIX © 2021 In the new Netflix original movie The Harder They Fall, writer and director Jeymes Samuel pays homage to the rich legacy of the Black cowboy. Playful and imaginative, the action-packed film […]

It’s Time To Let Go Of Celebrity #RelationshipGoals

It doesn’t take much for two extremely attractive, very famous people to go from individual objects of thirst to a certified Celebrity Couple. Some strategic hand-holding in well-timed paparazzi shots, a few coy quotes and boom, iconic portmanteaus are born (see: Bennifer, Brangelina, KimYe, and, well, Bennifer again). If these […]

Spencer Costumes Include Reinterpretations Of Princess Diana’s Best Looks — & Vintage Chanel

Spencer Costumes Include Reinterpretations Of Princess Diana’s Best Looks — & Vintage Chanel

Warning: Minor spoilers ahead for Spencer. While Jacqueline Durran has worked on a myriad of high-profile projects like Little Women and Anna Karenina, the award-winning costume designer says that dressing Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana for Pablo Larraín’s Spencer was unlike anything else she has done in her impressive 22-year […]