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  • OWN’s Greenleaf Is Back for a 4th Season and We Can All Rest Assured That the Drama Cometh

    OWN’s Greenleaf Is Back for a 4th Season and We Can All Rest Assured That the Drama Cometh

    When Greenleaf premiered June 21, 2016, it signaled a new direction for OWN beyond reality TV and Tyler Perry shows. As it embarks on its fourth season, the Memphis-set megachurch family drama, led by seasoned actors Keith David as Bishop James Greenleaf and Lynn Whitfield as Lady Mae Greenleaf, is still going strong. Grace, their…

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  • Black Women OWN the Conversation Puts Black Women in the Center

    Black Women OWN the Conversation, a collaboration between OZY Media, co-owned by Carlos Watson, a former CNN and MSNBC analyst, and the Oprah Winfrey-branded network OWN, is a historic first for television. Launched August 24, the series features panels of such well-known women as Stacey Abrams, singer Monica, comedic actress Kym Whitley, Pose star Angelica…

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  • The Tresses and the Tea: Everything We Learned at the 72nd Annual Bronner Brothers Hair Show

    The Tresses and the Tea: Everything We Learned at the 72nd Annual Bronner Brothers Hair Show

    It’s hard describing what many of us know as the infamous Bronner Brothers Hair Show to those who have never attended. Twice a year in February and August, it goes down—almost always in Atlanta—and the summer show is by far the most popular. Since it started in 1947, a little bit of everybody has rolled…

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  • 'Marriage Is Not Checkers, It's Chess': Summit Explores Making Black Love Last

    'Marriage Is Not Checkers, It's Chess': Summit Explores Making Black Love Last

    Barack and Michelle Obama aren’t the only black married couple in this country, and the Black Love Summit, held in Atlanta on Saturday, proved that. A spill-over from the successful docuseries Black Love—which returns to OWN on Aug. 10 and was created by real-life married couple Tommy and Codie Elaine Oliver—the summit attracted a few…

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  • ‘Inclusive by All Means’: Meet Donae Burston, the Black Spirits Guru Who Launched His Own Luxury RosĂ©

    ‘Inclusive by All Means’: Meet Donae Burston, the Black Spirits Guru Who Launched His Own Luxury RosĂ©

    “Sipping rosĂ©â€ has new meaning now that Donae Burston owns the brand La FĂȘte du RosĂ©. Loosely translated as “RosĂ© Party,” Burston’s spirit creation, not to be confused with the traveling event of the same name, is an inclusive affair that acknowledges what we all know: Black people drink rosĂ©. Like, a lot—and bougie black…

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  • Shannon Sharpe Is Dead Serious About HBCUs

    Shannon Sharpe Is Dead Serious About HBCUs

    Shannon Sharpe has gone viral many times since his 2016 debut on Fox Sports 1’s Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with sportswriter Skip Bayless. Just last year he set Black Twitter abuzz when he appeared on the show with a Black & Mild dangling from his lips, referencing Hennessy as “yak” and “Henn Dog.” Because the…

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  • Tarana Burke's #MeTooHBCU Tour Is Creating a Safe Space for Students to Speak Out

    Tarana Burke's #MeTooHBCU Tour Is Creating a Safe Space for Students to Speak Out

    It’s no newsflash to us that the broader #MeToo movement has looked very different for black women. National headlines have put a spotlight on convicted comedian Bill Cosby and alleged sexual predator R. Kelly, but black survivors have arguably not been as prominently highlighted or compassionately addressed. Subsequent to the groundbreaking Lifetime docu-series, Surviving R.…

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  • Artist of the Demolished Kaepernick Mural Clapped Back Hard on the Day of the NFL's Big Game

    When a popular mural featuring Colin Kaepernick alongside a Wakanda-fied Muhammad Ali came crashing down the Friday before the Super Bowl in Atlanta, it didn’t go unnoticed. Or unanswered. The day of the Super Snooze Bowl, the clapback was epic as eight more Kaepernick murals went up, bringing the city’s total to nine overall. Dubbed…

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  • Post-Trumpgate, Jemele Hill Continues to Raise Her Voice With LeBron James' Docuseries, Shut Up and Dribble, and The Atlantic

    Jemele Hill knows about the intersection of politics and sports up close. As one of the faces of SC6, last year’s revamp of ESPN flagship SportsCenter with friend and colleague Michael A. Smith, Hill came under fire last September when she replied to a tweet from trolls that “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who…

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  • Meet Morgan Dixon, the Black Girl Magic Behind the Incredible Nail Art on TNT’s Hit Series Claws

    Morgan Dixon never imagined she’d oversee nail art on a hit TV show. In fact, she says she’s not completely sure how Claws even found her. “I wasn’t a part of the pilot and last season I was actually just an additional nail tech … somehow I just worked and became the key [nail artist]…

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