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Updated May 25, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
The unofficial start to Summer 2026 has arrived (albeit a lot of rain)! After a long and brutal winter, we are here for the new season. Summer means pretty sundresses, longer days, rooftop parties, backyard bashes and more fun outdoor gatherings, so bring it on! Are you always on the guest list but now itching to host a memorable fete of your own?
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Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated May 23, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
These days, it is easy to feel like the world is on fire: all of our bills are too high, we’re at war with Iran, the government is…well, you know how stressful politics is right now. Our news cycle usually feels like one sad or depressing story after another. But there is still an abundance of Black joy and Black
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Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated May 23, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
These days, it is easy to feel like the world is on fire: all of our bills are too high, we’re at war with Iran, the government is…well, you know how stressful politics is right now. Our news cycle usually feels like one sad or depressing story after another. But there is still an abundance of Black joy and Black
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Updated May 22, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
The rent, mortgage, tuition, car payment, groceries and gas are all too high. Memorial Day Weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and everyone is in need of some sunshine, rest and relaxation after a long winter. In addition to everything costing more, inflation vacation is real. We deserve a sunny getaway with our families, but we also need our coins. What is
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(Photo by Jamie McCarthy/WireImage) By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated May 21, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Breakups are hard af. They are hard if you’re the one who initiated the split. They’re hard when you’re the one who got “left”. They’re certainly hard when young children are involved. But they are also challenging to navigate with adult offspring. And they can be tough with no children at all.
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Photo Credit: DjelicS/GettyImages By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated May 20, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Reading is fundamental and so is community. In Black spaces, reading, books and literature are sacred and special. We know they cannot be taken for granted as our right to read and write was at one time not even legal. When Black people have the gumption to open bookstores that cater to Black
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Beauty is her name. / Photo by Bruce Glikas/WireImage/GettyImages By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated May 19, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
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It isn’t a secret that Hollywood is obsessed with blondes. And blondes with blue eyes who are a size 2? Whew. For anyone, especially a woman, in the entertainment industry who doesn’t
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A’ja Wilson: She’s Got Game. / (Photo by M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated May 18, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
A’ja Wilson just did what no other WNBA player has ever done.
The 29-year-old Columbia, South Carolina native scored 45 points in a 101-94 win over the Connecticut Sun on the evening of May 15 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. During the
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Spelman College celebrates a historic graduating class! / Photo Credit: (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images) By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated May 16, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
These days, it is easy to feel like the world is on fire: all of our bills are too high, we’re at war with Iran, the government is…well, you know how stressful politics is right now. Our news cycle usually feels like one sad or depressing story