Music
Yola Is the Unconventional Queen of Country Soul
Black artists from all around the world are continuing the tradition of upending the expectation that country music is a genre reserved for white artists.
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Brazilian Pop Star Anitta Reclaims Her Bodily Autonomy
Anitta chooses to twerk for her own pleasure because dancing to funk is a way for Brazilian women to enjoy and celebrate their own bodies.
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That Timeless Feeling: Cyanca Charts Her Own Neo-Soul Course
“I just know I want everything to be about Blackness.”
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“Black Is King” Navigates African Cultures and the Diaspora’s Imagination
Black is King works because it is honest: a film of hope and belonging.
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BitchTapes: Stepping into Power
This BitchTape highlights the women and nonbinary artists of color who wear many creative hats, from being vocalists and instrumentalists to being producers and record-label owners.
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With “WAP,” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Honor Women’s Pleasure
“WAP” is a reclamation.
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If You Want to Protect Black Women, Start with Megan Thee Stallion
“Protect Black women” is floating around social media, but there’s a more powerful sentiment that Black women are undeserving of being shielded from violence.
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Stinging Stans: Swifties Doxxing Journalists Is Just the Beginning
People don’t really know what to think about fangirls or teenage girls in general.
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Streaming Isn’t Music’s Magic Bullet
Independent artists are reckoning with what it means to work on their own terms in an industry that’s increasingly led by a small number of billion-dollar data and tech companies.
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Does Taylor Swift Have to Be Queer for “folklore” to be a Lesbian Album?
Longing is, after all, queer.
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