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The 12 Best Netflix Food Shows To Stream Right Now

The 12 Best Netflix Food Shows To Stream Right Now

There are few things more relaxing in this world than curling up on the couch with and turning on a cooking show. Something about watching people, both professionals and home cooks, pour love into every bite they’re preparing is just so incredibly soothing. Most food shows provide the perfect escape […]

That’s Hot — Literally. Get Cooking With Paris & Make Her Secret Hilton Family Recipe

That’s Hot — Literally. Get Cooking With Paris & Make Her Secret Hilton Family Recipe

COOKING WITH PARIS (L to R) PARIS HILTON in COOKING WITH PARIS Cr. KIT KARZEN/NETFLIX © 2021 “During the cooking show, I definitely ruined some outfits,” Paris Hilton laughs over the phone with Refinery29. The trailer for her new Netflix series, Cooking With Paris, portends the promise of high glam […]

‘King Richard’ Highlights How A Black Dad Carved Space For His Superstar Daughters To Thrive

A new biopic starring Will Smith as the father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams is on its way to movie theatres later this year. In “King Richard,” we’ll get to see the sisters in their younger years as they began their journey to pro sports success. But make […]

Prosecutors Seek To Add Damning New Evidence In R. Kelly’s Racketeering Trial

Prosecutors Seek To Add Damning New Evidence In R. Kelly’s Racketeering Trial

This story contains discussion of sexual violence. Please proceed with care. The 2019 release of explosive documentary Surviving R. Kelly played an important role in the legal pursuit of the R&B singer, highlighting a laundry list of truly disturbing allegations of sexual violence that spanned the course of decades. Today, […]

8 Films By Female Directors To Watch At Sundance Film Festival: London

8 Films By Female Directors To Watch At Sundance Film Festival: London

Year in, year out, Sundance Film Festival remains a steadfast celebration of independent filmmaking, platforming only the most mind-bending, eye-opening storytellers. And for 2021, it’s clear to see the festival coming on leaps and bounds for diversity and progress, with over half of the films in the lineup helmed by […]

What Britney Spears’ Style Taught Me About My Own Coming Of Age

What Britney Spears’ Style Taught Me About My Own Coming Of Age

In the wake of the Framing Britney Spears documentary and with the #FreeBritney movement gathering momentum, the world is revisiting the various dehumanising ways that we’ve pushed famous, young women to the brink. In Britney Spears’ case, it’s become apparent that the media harassment contributed to Spears’ mental health struggles, which […]

Steve McQueen’s Doc On The New Cross Fire Shows How Easily Black British History Is Erased

Steve McQueen’s Doc On The New Cross Fire Shows How Easily Black British History Is Erased

I was a self-proclaimed boffin at school. When it came to starting my GCSEs, history quickly became one of my favourite subjects. Continuing on to A-level, I learned about the Russian Revolution, President Reagan’s war on drugs and the Swinging Sixties under Prime Minister Macmillan. To this day, I can […]

Like A Virgin: How Purity Culture Harmed Britney Spears & A Generation Of Pop Stars

It was the first time in 13 years that anyone had heard Britney Spears speak openly about her long-standing conservatorship. Over the course of a 24-minute hearing statement, the pop star spoke clearly and passionately about the abuses she’s faced under this contract: She described being forced to work seven […]

The Music Industry Has Failed Black Women Survivors

The Music Industry Has Failed Black Women Survivors

Processed with VSCO with e6 preset *Editor’s note: This piece contains incidents of rape and sexual assault. Please read with care. My lifelong experience in the music and entertainment industries has been one of betrayal and abuse.  It began just weeks before my fifteenth birthday in 1975. I loved Minnie […]