The race problem on TikTok is glaring. Converse to the privilege and access that Charli has, most of the innovators on TikTok are almost always Black and Brown kids, who like Jaliah prior to that New York Times article, reaped no rewards from creating the Renegade dance.
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At first glance, nothing about eighteen-year-old Billie Eilish screams Black culture, at least not when you play her music. But after the 2020 Grammys people started talking about what they considered the obvious influence of Black American culture on Billie’s image.
It took me forever and a day to get up a Black Panther review but it is finally, FINALLY here.
There is something truly miraculous about a show created by Black women, largely produced by Black women, managing to create
It’s time for another Popsnark, where we talk about everything from the low brow to the high brow as long
Surprise, surprise, I’ll be doing reviews of the second season of OWN Tv’s Greenleaf. Thank god for the marketing push that had me spend my whole weekend obsesses, absorbed with watching the first season of Greenleaf on Netflix. It is that good. And since Being Mary Jane was so damn wacktastic this season (you can still catch my reviews of that on TheRoot.com), I decided Greenleaf would be a great time to review and pick my skills up in time for the second season of Insecure which comes back to HBO on June 23rd. So much good TV. I am
Originally published on TheRoot.com Being Mary Jane is back for a fourth season, and Mary Jane Paul is still pompously