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Alexi McCammond speaks onstage during day 2 of Politicon 2019 on October 27, 2019.Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Politicon (Getty Images) Following up on an internal email sent to Teen Vogue staff earlier this week, incoming editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond has published an expanded letter addressed to the Teen Vogue “community, …
Read More »<em>It’s a Sin</em> and the Ritual of AIDS Fiction
The show’s five episodes are rich with texture, and the gang’s ambitions, flings, and catchphrases all come to feel like your own. Yet the engine of the plot is AIDS itself. It stalks stealthily in the beginning, then strikes peripheral figures, then inculcates fear and denial, and then moves in …
Read More »Disrupt and Dismantle Takes on Criminal Justice Reform
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Read More »Cardi B Becomes First Female Rapper to Go Diamond for ‘Bodak Yellow’
Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar continues to make history in her rap career. Almánzar, better known as a rapper and former reality TV star (Love & Hip Hop: New York), Cardi B, has become the first female rapper to achieve selling 10 million records, which constitutes as diamond, for her debut single, …
Read More »White People Don't Make No Sense
Photo: Alpha Spirit (Shutterstock) This headline is grammatically correct. In African American Vernacular English, “no” is a determiner equivalent to the thermodynamic concept of absolute zero. It is the amount of “mess” that James Brown’s papa was willing to take. It describes how much of a joke Rakim considered himself …
Read More »Private Schools Are Indefensible
Photo illustrations by Oliver Munday and Arsh Raziuddin; renderings by Justin Metz This article was published online on March 11, 2021. Dalton is one of the most selective private schools in Manhattan, in part because it knows the answer to an important question: What do hedge-funders want? They want what …
Read More »Disrupt and Dismantle Examines Public Trust in the Police
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Read More »Triller Acquires Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s Verzuz, Makes All 46 Performers Shareholders
The Verzuz phenomenon that was created and executed by super music producers Kasseem Dean and Timothy Zachary Mosley, better known as Swizz Beatz, and Timbaland, has been acquired by Triller Network, the parent company of the Triller app. According to Billboard, the Grammy Award-winning producers and entrepreneurs will join the …
Read More »Nintendo Knocks 35 Percent Off Some Really Great Mario Games in Celebration of Mar10 Day
Mario said, “Raise up, b. You won’t.”Photo: Dutchmen Photography (Shutterstock) Today is March 10, which means it’s a Mar10 Day! To celebrate the plumber with the meanest mustache in the game, Nintendo has reduced the price of some straight-up bangers by 35 percent. According to Yahoo, you can currently cop …
Read More »En Vogue Talks About Their Cameo Set In ‘Coming 2 America’
The highly anticipated sequel to 1988’s Coming to America made a big splash last Friday (March 5) as a new generation of fans were introduced to the royal family of Zamunda. Coming 2 America, now streaming now on Amazon Prime, welcomed veterans like Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall back as …
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