The Best Fiction Of 2018
This has been another tough year in a string of tough years. At first critics claimed we needed literature more than ever, but sometimes it has felt too easily forgotten.…
Roxane Gay and Medium launch ‘Gay Magazine’
(Getty Images) Author and social activist Roxane Gay has collaborated with the online publishing platform Medium to officially launch Gay Magazine. Gay, 44, released the first edition of the publication…
The Truth About Good Sex In Fiction: It Exists
Is it possible to write a good sex scene? Several writers, including Tom Scocca, Jeet Heer and Anne Thériault, posed this question on Twitter this week. The Bad Sex in…
Byron Allen makes history again thanks to $10.6 BIL media deal
Over the course of his career, Entertainment Studios founder and CEO, Byron Allen has earned a reputation for shaking up the status quo. Thanks to a new acquisition in partnership…
To Hate-Watch Or Not To Hate-Watch: A Discussion Of ‘A Christmas Prince 2’
Every good romantic comedy needs a sequel. How else will we find out about how that fluffy, swoony happy ending turned into a relentless morass of disappointment and misery? That’s…
Inside The Nesting Doll Fandom Of ‘My Favorite Murder’
A recent post in a private Facebook group called Simerinos describes an unusual scene. “This damn woman was in the middle of eating a bowl of chowder when she suddenly…
Lamar Odom returns to basketball in Ice Cube’s Big3 league
Former NBA player Lamar Odom at Nickelodeon’s 2017 Kids’ Choice Awards at USC Galen Center on March 11, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) Former NBA…
Holder calls on 2020 presidential candidates to help redistricting prep | Politico
Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Justice Department in Washington, on Sept. 16, 2014. Susan Walsh—AP Former Attorney General Eric Holder says…
World’s Largest Museum dedicated to Black Civilizations opens in Senegal | Shoppe Black
After 52 years of waiting, Senegal is finally opening what has been described as the largest museum of Black civilization in the capital, Dakar. With close to 14,000 square metres…
How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism | Slate
On a walking tour of the New Orleans Garden District, my husband and I exchanged meaningful glances after the fourth or fifth time our guide delicately referred to the slaves…