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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Big Beauty Tuesday: My Mother, My Quarantine Buddy

Tell the truth: Could you peacefully quarantine with one of your parents? Maybe you already are—after all, the last year has had pretty much everyone reevaluating their living conditions and life, in general. For some, that’s meant leaving big cities, crowded apartments, overpriced rents, and otherwise suddenly…

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NBC Says HFPA's Overhaul Plan Is 'an Encouraging Step in the Right Direction'

It looks like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) may be headed in the right direction—at least in the eyes of its affiliated network and production company.

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Monday, May 3, 2021

Keegan-Michael Key, Lil Nas X Tapped for Final Episodes of This Season's Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live—or SNL as it’s more affectionately known—has had one helluva season these past few months.

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Mic Drop: Masterful Musicians Makin' Moves

We’ve got a lot going on here, and guess what? I’m here for it. Black women are dominating the first week of May’s charts, floating between different genres and but putting us in our bag and taking us back out. Music is intersectional as all hell, but we knew that already, so it’s time to talk about an aspect of music…

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Racist Fire Chief Who Swore He’s Totally Not Racist Has Resigned Due to Backlash From Racist Facebook Post

As awful as Facebook is, it has single-handedly put more racists out of work than any other social media site. Last week, a volunteer fire chief in South Carolina landed in hot water after making a blatantly racist Facebook post that he swore wasn’t racist. Evidently, the backlash was too much as the man has resigned…

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