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When Will Black America Shoot Back?

During the upcoming midterm elections, all of our shots have scored major wins. Click here to check your voting registration. May is mental health awareness month in the United States, but in reality, one group has been under attack for their basic freedoms since the 1800s. Black America is under attack as they are now…

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, Find Content That Matters To You

With daily digital uploads across social sharing platforms reaching in the billions per day, how on Earth do you sort through all of it. Youtube reported that it receives about 5 million hours of new content uploaded onto its platform per day. The amount of content watched still greatly outweighs the amount that’s produced which…

In Viola Davis’ Finding Me, She Exposes Her Extremely Piss Poor Childhood Which Led to Finding Triumph In Performing Arts

And when I say piss poor I mean quite literally. The Tony, Emmy, and Oscar winner sat with mother superior, Oprah, for a special event conversation which is available to stream today on Netflix. The Harpo producers purposely used a flower motif aesthetic for b-roll and transitionary shots, giving Viola her much-needed flowers as the…

A Best Actor Win, A Slap, And We Found The One Thing That Overshines Beyoncé

In West Philadelphia, born and raised. If you watch the show Abbott Elementary then you have been introduced to a modern-day, school days version of the man who is Willard Smith. They don’t take any shit! He is also an Academy Award winner after Sunday’s ceremony for his portrayal of the real-life father to Tennis…

Celebrity Stylist Eboni J Uses Creative Genius For Kenny Lattimore Visual

MIAMI PRODUCER SAYS HIS VISION BOARD IS HIS KEY TO THE BAG

For our third edition of News In Progress, Behind The Scenes, journalist Tahyira Savanna with Woodley, notably known as Woodley on the Beat. Hailing from the 305, Miami, Florida has long been one of the best music hubs in the World especially when you tag the niche, #hiphop. He was born into a middle class…

Why The Heck Am I Canceling Spotify?

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO OUR CAUSE, Read Dr King’s I Have A Dream Speech and Then Take The Pledge

My man Martin. He was the definition of “powerful” as it pertains to whipping up Black votes and stirring up some GOOD TROUBLE back in his time, and as he said in that candid speech on that faithful day in Washington D.C. on August 28th, 1963, I Have A Dream. It might as well had…

Don’t Look Up | Reviews By Tee

Listen in a on this 6 minute Twitter audio review by screenwriter Tahyira Savanna. After watching Don’t Look Up on Netflix, I decided to join in on the conversations post- end credits. As a creative I’m working very hard to make space for all kinds of storytelling that has not been told before. The film…

Woke: Season 3 – Official Trailer (2021) | LGBTQ | Drama

Directed by : Sullivan Le Postec and Slimane-Baptiste BerhounWritten by : Sullivan Le PostecProduced by : Astharte & CompagnieCast : Mehdi Meskar as “Hicham Alaoui”Eric Pucheu as “Thibaut Giaccherini”Adrian De La Vega as “Elijah Vandewalle”Denis D’Arcangelo as “Claude Favre”Nanou Harry as “Nadjet Alaoui”TRT: 135 min.Individual Episode Runtime: 45 min.Episodes:S3E1: “Protect Us” – Anzor, a Chechen refugee helped by the Center is violently attacked in…

Black Brands Need Love Too

It’s our favorite time of the year to help our brothers and sisters who are entrepreneurs. It’s all about spending Black dollars wisely. Especially around the holiday shopping season. Where are you planning to shop this year? There is something to be said about how Black Americans financially invest into the American economy. Do you…

How Social Media Giants Like Tik Tok Made Safe Space for Black Entrepreneurship During National Black Business Month

Rockstar Of The Season: Madison Murray by Tahyira

Some come into my life simply from Indeed to this space. I never know who they really are until they begin to write. Working on this site since 2013 by myself, I wasn’t too sure which direction it could take. When I left NYC to head to Los Angeles, I was provided more opportunities to…

How Britney Spears’ Case Highlights Abusive Legal Powers and Over-reach, Parents Are Poison

Dude, #IAMBritney, and it’s the ugly truth. I’ve been a fan of the pop star since Baby One More Time. As a lover of any big artist, you take a great deal of personal heat when you begin to defend them, specifically now in the days of social media commentary. Britney Spears is a cautionary…

Demi Lovato Re-enacts Overdose and Rape In Music Video for Dancing With the Devil

How Elisa Lam’s Tragic Death During A Manic Episode Can Teach Mental Health Professionals About Signals

Isolation is the most dangerous aspect of experiencing a manic or depressive episode. In the tragic case of Elisa Lam, whose the topic of Netflix’s Crime Case: Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, a young Chinese-Canadian woman is found dead, floating in the hotel’s water tank. No, not the plot of Dark Water which is a…

Nomadland Explores Humanity’s Idea That Less Is Truly More

The film takes us to a place in our heads we’ve been envisioning since the Pandemic, a sweet escape from our home, our lives, and our everyday realities. Frances’s performance seems so lifelike there are moments you forget it’s not a documentary about her living in her van. As more female-driven stories get Hollywood-level green-light,…

America Is Getting What It Deserves: Reactive responses don’t yield new results

This land is your land, this land is my land…. unless a racist from Anytown U.S.A. thinks otherwise. Are we going to sit here and pretend that white folks didn’t try to take away legal votes from Black people in Georgia? Modus operandi resulting in an insurrection against the Senators on the House floor, set…

Mental Health Stigmas On Social Media Continue Despite Americans Taking Their Lives

Yesterday I was taken back by the news of the officer in Louisiana who took his own life. I run a Black mental health podcast and I’m producing a new episode but I’m stuck. It’s called ‘Clear and Present Danger’ because I am trying to describe the emergent situations facing Black Americans in 2021. Why…