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Two Black women entrepreneurs in Los Angeles recently added their voices to the chorus of California’s predominantly white legalized cannabis marketplace by opening their own dispensary. CEO Whitney Beatty and COO Ebony Andersen opened Josephine & Billie’s on Oct. 29, according to Forbes. The old-school, speakeasy-style cannabis store is named …

Screenshot: HBO (YouTube) Never let it be said that Insecure doesn’t know how to carry a theme alllllll the way through. Even as the show prepares for its farewell, it marked another first on Sunday night—an episode themed around the girls’ night of Issa, Molly, Kelli and Tiffany—by dressing its …

Danielle Del Plato A year after the insurrection, I’m trying to imagine the death of American democracy. It’s somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human brain overtaken by the tyranny of artificial intelligence, than to foresee the end of our 250-year experiment …

Zoom calls may only require women to be presentable from the waist up, but a beat face can help you forget that you have on pajama bottoms and fuzzy slippers along with your blouse, blazer, or hoodie embroidered with your employer’s logo. BOSS luxury makeup tools is a line of …

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A ball planned for Ken Welch, the first Black mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, was canceled amid concerns the ball’s circus theme was inappropriate. The Junior League of Florida, which has held the ball since 2006, scrapped the event after Welch declined the invitation to attend. The theme for the ball …

Screenshot: Showtime/YouTube (Getty Images) Hip-hop, the music genre that has expanded beyond beats and breakdancing and into a multi-billion dollar industry since its inception in 1973, will be turning 50 soon and that incredulous feat will be the subject of a new project series from Nas, his production banner Mass …

In October of 1860, The Atlantic’s first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote of Abraham Lincoln that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough to make him a politician.” Lowell, in his endorsement, was mainly concerned not with Lincoln’s personal qualities but with …

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Stevie J, 50, has asked a Los Angeles court to force his estranged wife for spousal support in a new turn of events.  According to The Blast, the acclaimed producer is requesting a monthly stipend from Faith Evans while also petitioning the court to forego spousal support for her. Celebrity …