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“Loving a Black woman feels like a privilege; it feels like I’m seen,” Kiesh says softly to Crystal as she stares into her lap. This video of two Black women talking about Black Love for Refinery 29’s Unbothered platform has been shared over 70,000 times on Twitter and ‘liked’ more than double that amount. The five-minute […]
For a certain subset of males around the globe, James Bond is the pinnacle of masculinity. His style and swagger have long served as an exceedingly aspirational template since his creation in 1953 by novelist Ian Fleming. Fleming may have made Bond a household name, but Sir Thomas Sean Connery made Bond a legend. Connery, […]
After you check out Rolling Loud’s special Halloween weekend live stream and watched all of the B-movie horror gems in your collection…now what? What does one do for Halloween 2020 when they are sheltering in pace due to COVID-19? Hopefully they have a fistful of candles and a gaming console, because this is the best time to dive […]
A self-proclaimed “Martian of rap,” Lil Wayne has always operated in his own universe. Wayne has acknowledged that he doesn’t pay attention to any music but his own, recently confusing 21 Savage for a group and admitting he didn’t know what TDE and Quality Control were. It’s one thing to disengage from the world in […]
At this point, it’s industry folklore that some of the most iconic albums of our time were created in isolation. Justin Vernon wrote and recorded Bon Iver’s debut album For Emma, Forever Ago at his father’s remote hunting cabin in Wisconsin while battling mono, a liver infection, and depression. J Dilla created and recorded the beats for Donuts between […]
This year, Halloween falls on a weekend…but quarantine won’t let us go trick or treating. [Ed note: RIP Bushwick Bill.] You could spend your day watching all of the scary movies, but we also know that Halloween parties may not be a thing this year. Doesn’t mean you can’t turn up, though, and thanks to […]
Danny Green continues to set himself apart. Not many can say they’ve won both an NCAA title and at least three NBA titles—in fact, just 10 other people can. After winning a championship with San Antonio in 2014, Green just won back-to-back titles with both the Toronto Raptors and Los Angeles Lakers. At 33, Green […]
One of the most important storylines of every college football season has to do with how the results on the field affect the following spring’s NFL Draft. And a deep quarterback class headlined by a potentially generational talent has led to non-stop speculation about how his game will translate to the next level. The top […]
[Ed note: We are giving you our first impressions of a pre-release PlayStation 5 that Sony sent for review purposes. As we adhere to their embargoes, we will be giving you more information on this next-generation gaming console. Keep it locked as we will be breaking down more and more on the PS5 in the […]
When Nike quietly purchased the Portland, Oregon-based skateboarding sneaker start-up Savier in 2001, the entire sneaker industry was wading in a massive sea of change that few predicted. Launched independently in the fall of 2000, Savier’s role in skateboarding footwear’s canon is a story about design and marketing, and even folklore, that’s steeped in the hazy […]
