Month: November 2021

Black Women On Reality Dating Shows Are Rarely Finding Love. Instead, They’re Securing The Bag

Finding love on reality TV has exploded in popularity within the last decade, leading to a wave of new dating shows. Though the formats for attaining a partner on these shows are decidedly different — weeding out assholes to find Mr. Right (Fckboy Island), abstaining from sex to inspire emotional […]

Why A Popular Gamer’s Blue-Light Skin-Care Line Totally Flopped

Why A Popular Gamer’s Blue-Light Skin-Care Line Totally Flopped

On 19th October, YouTube creator Rachel “Valkyrae” Hofstetter, currently the most-watched female streamer, announced the launch of RFLCT, a skin-care line designed to protect against blue-light pollution from the screen. The line was quickly met with criticism and concern, however, from her fans, fellow creators, and Reddit users alike regarding […]

Colourism Clouds The Rich Imagination Of The Harder They Fall

Colourism Clouds The Rich Imagination Of The Harder They Fall

THE HARDER THEY FALL: ZAZIE BEETZ as MARY FIELDS in THE HARDER THEY FALL Cr. DAVID LEE/NETFLIX © 2021 In the new Netflix original movie The Harder They Fall, writer and director Jeymes Samuel pays homage to the rich legacy of the Black cowboy. Playful and imaginative, the action-packed film […]

Tati Westbrook Shutters Beauty Brand

Tati Westbrook Shutters Beauty Brand

Tati Westbrook is shuttering her namesake beauty brand. The beauty influencer, who has 8.7 million YouTube subscribers and 2.2 million Instagram followers under her @glamlifeguru handle, revealed in a YouTube video on Thursday that she is closing her Tati Beauty brand nearly two years after she launched the makeup line. […]