When Will Black Reality Stars Get Their Props For Running Pop Culture?

Essence Magazine:

By Brooklyn White ·Updated June 10, 2022

If you believe you can scroll down Twitter without coming across a Black reality star’s impact, I wish you, in the words of Tiffany “New York” Pollard, an ounce of luck. Yet when the MTV Movie Awards granted its 2022 Reality Royalty trophy, it went to Bethenny Frankel, and not a Black starlet whose fingerprint had been stamped (and re-stamped) on culture.

Frankel’s true first

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