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WATCH THIS: Amazon Prime’s ‘Sylvie’s Love’ An Authentic Black Love Story

The streaming service delivers an accurate and beautifully written love story where melanin is king Our love stories — complicated, passionate, and filled with optimism amidst racial inequality and angst; are still worth it. Each. And. Every. One. “Sylvie’s Love,” a melanated tour de force, which premiered on Amazon Prime on Christmas Day, pays homage […]

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WATCH THIS: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Tells the Whole Truth Behind Difficult Blacks in the Industry

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The word, difficult has long since been attached to Black female entertainers, along with it, the assumption that they should be “grateful” for the opportunities they have instead of crediting their talent, and God-given abilities. Not Ma Rainey

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Last Minute Holiday Finds

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Couture Paige’s columnist and Film Editor Paige Wilson brings you some of her favorite Holiday Must-Haves in a fun video; featuring and co-starring her daughter Kayla!

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WATCH THIS: HARLEM’S GODFATHER GETS THE REINTRODUCTION HE DESERVES

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Epix wins with the Forest Whitaker-produced portrayal of Bumpy Johnson’s rule over the borough’s brownstones and blocks

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BIG BLACK BUSINESS: JESS’S SWEET TREATS

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How the young entrepreneur took a baking class and used it to pivot into a pastry company that’s profiting, even in the midst of a pandemic

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VIDEO: No Limit to Master P’s Seeds of Hope

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As BET airs their 5-part docu-series about No Limit Records, new interest in Master P. and his blueprint for Black Ownership in the music industry continue to inspire at a crucial time where the Black dollar is no longer a commodity — it’s a movement. In an interview with Master P. and No Limit artist Mia X, BALDWIN editor James R. Sanders talks Black home-ownership, protecting Black women, fatherhood, and good credit

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BET TURNS 40 AND TELEVISES REVOLUTION AT AWARDS

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Covid-19, together with every Black life that mattered and was lost in the meantime — provided a platform for BET to remind its larger audience (thanks to Viacom’s merger with CBS) that the revolution would be televised

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Noah’s Arc Still Floats After All These Years

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After a 12-year hiatus, showrunner Patrik Ian-Polk brought the iconic show back for a reunion with the entire cast picking things up in the middle of a Covid-19 quarantine. Show offers from Gabrielle Union, a surprise baby, and several cameos from the melanated LGBTQ glitterati — and the Gay Black version of ‘Living Single’ didn’t miss a beat

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