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As part of its effort to amplify Black voices, YouTube has rolled out a programming playlist dedicated to Black leaders in fashion. The videos, which can be found on YouTube’s Fashion & Beauty channel, highlight the work and stories of some of the industry’s biggest names; Virgil Abloh, Grace Wales Bonner, Jerry Lorenzo, Naomi Campbell, and Samuel Ross […]
Tyra Banks has apologized for America’s Next Top Model’s lack of inclusivity and diversity. “We were still operating in a world—I was still a model at the time, not a retired model yet, and still operating in this world that had so many rules,” the former model said on the Tamron Hall Show on Wednesday, […]
Everyone wants to feel included, and video games are no exception. The latest addition to the Animal Crossing series, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, has drawn tons of fans, and player Taniesha Bracken-Hucks noticed there was a lack of Black/Afro-textured hairstyles to choose from when creating an avatar. This moved her to create a petition in hopes to see some changes. […]
Anthony Mackie recently joined Daveed Diggs for an episode of the quarantine era of Variety‘s Actors on Actors series. Around 16 minutes into the discussion, which was conducted while honoring social distancing guidelines, the two spoke on the responsibility top-tier stars have when it comes to pushing for greater representation both behind the scenes and […]
The Bachelor is casting its first Black lead. Matt James has been asked to be the bachelor for Season 25, following demands that the franchise cast a more diverse group of contestants. James was supposed to be a contestant on the next season of The Bachelorette, with Clare Crawley as the lead, but production was […]
Worldwide outrage over the death of George Floyd has drastically fueled outrage over the systemic racism plaguing America. In the weeks since Floyd’s police killing, demonstrators have hit the streets demanding structural change and justice across all areas of society—not just within law enforcement. Over the past couple of weeks, there’s been a number lawmakers, TV personalities, and […]
On Sunday, we’re going to find out if the Academy will award Parasite with Best Picture, a feat that has never been accomplished before by a non-English language film at the Oscars. However, if one member of the 8,469-member voting body clues us into a majority of the group’s overall thinking, then it’s clear that we sadly have a long […]
David Schwimmer recently proposed an all-black version of his blockbuster NBC sitcom Friends, which sounds like a cool idea at first — until you remember Friends is basically the all-white reboot of the Fox sitcom Living Single. “Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends,” Schwimmer told The Guardian in an interview, […]
David Schwimmer, current star of the Sky One and Now TV series Intelligence, is understandably not keen on the idea of cobbling together some sort of nostalgia-beholden Friends reunion. In a lengthy new interview with the Guardian this week, Schwimmer addressed a few issues surrounding the blockbuster NBC sitcom, which is certainly not better than […]
As people were trying to make sense of this year’s Academy Awards regressing back towards the #OscarsSoWhite 2015 controversy, author and Academy member Stephen King tried to address the ongoing issue earlier this month in a series of tweets. King claimed that, personally, when he voted for the nominees in the categories of Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay, […]
