Author: Brande Victorian

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By Okla Jones ·Updated October 26, 2021

After the recent departures of Cynthia Bailey and Porsha Williams from 

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By D'Shonda Brown ·Updated October 25, 2021

In the latest season of the Netflix series ‘You,’ starring Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti, Joe Goldberg (Badgley) and wife Love Quinn (Pedretti) move to the suburban town of Madre Linda for a new start. There they meet queen bee mommy blogger Sherry Conrad (Shalita Grant) and librarian Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle), two Black women who play an integral part in the lives of the newlyweds

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By Brande Victorian ·Updated October 25, 2021

Just days before ABC premiered its new drama, Queens on October 19, one of the show’s stars, Eve, announced she and husband Maximillion Cooper are expecting their first child. The news came as a welcome surprise to fans of the Philly rapper who was open about her struggle to conceive and even left her role as co-host of The Talk to focus on expanding her family. Ironically, when

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By Veronica Wells ·Updated October 25, 2021

After graduating college, Derrick A. King took a job in Pennsylvania working in Corporate America, but it wasn’t his passion. Eventually, his company transferred him to their office in LA, marking a resurgence of his love of acting. Three months after moving to Tinsel Town, King enrolled in acting classes. He made a pledge to himself that he would do whatever it took to fulfill his

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By Brande Victorian ·Updated October 22, 2021

Today, Social Change Fund, in partnership with Bleacher Report, is releasing a capsule collection celebrating the legacy of six HBCUs. Social Change Fund, founded by NBA stars Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, and Carmelo Anthony, helps invest in and support organizations working to create a more equitable society for Black and Indigenous people.

“Doing this collab with different HBCUs is something that, honestly, I’ve been passionate about for

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By Keyaira Boone ·Updated October 21, 2021

Saturday, October 23, 2021 HBCU students across the country will have the opportunity to learn from entertainment industry professionals at the 3rd Annual Macro X HBCU Entertainment Summit in Atlanta.

Professionals will be sharing the little known tasks and job titles that take ideas from pen and paper to profit as attendees look to become the entertainers and executives of tomorrow. Aunjanue Ellis (Lovecraft Country), Prentice Penny (Insecure), Nicole

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By Keyaira Boone ·Updated October 21, 2021

Mariah Carey is investing in Bitcoin through a partnership with the platform Gemini. 

Gemini provides access to “bitcoin, ether, and DeFi” tokens to the general public. According to a statement from the company, their platform, “makes it easy to buy, sell, earn and store more than 50 cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether in a simple, reliable, and secure manner.” The platform is open to the public. Carey shared that with

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By Brande Victorian ·Updated October 21, 2021

There’s a chapter in Jamie Foxx‘s new book, Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me that pulls at the heartstrings of any mother or father who’s no longer with their child’s other parent and any kid who grew up wishing their mom and dad were together. In it, Foxx relays a story of his oldest daughter, Corinne, having boy trouble while they

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By Keyaira Boone ·Updated October 21, 2021

Insecure introduced us to Black characters who represented our favorite coworkers, closest sorority sisters, and long lost soulmates (?). 

The story of Issa Dee and Molly Carter stumbling through the professional and personal challenges sprinkled across the end of their twenties has been illustrated by a cast of characters representing the diversity sorely missing from our primetime lineups five years ago. 

Newer faces like Natasha Rothwell, Sarunas J.