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This article was published online on February 6, 2021. Last February, on a sunny afternoon in West Hollywood, two girls with precise eye makeup paused on Melrose Avenue and peered in the windows of a building whose interior was painted a bright, happy pink. Two pink, winged unicorns flanked racks …

Political commentator Van Jones appeared on The View this morning (Feb. 5) to discuss a documentary he executive produced with Meghan McCain called The Reunited States. The other co-hosts, however, didn’t let him get away with just promoting his film: he was also held accountable for his past statements about …

Van Jones’s appearance on a popular ABC Network morning show set Twitter abuzz with a succinct– yet powerful read from the program’s co-host Sunny Hostin. On Friday’s episode of The View, Hostin held Jones’s feet to the fire over past comments he made supporting former President Donald Trump’s alleged plan for Black …

Image: Queen Latifah “Nature of A Sista’” (Tommy Boy Records) The album cover for Queen Latifah’s sophomore album, Nature Of A Sista’, is a much better take on the album cover for her debut, All Hail the Queen. Where All Hail the Queen had her standing in a stately, militaristic-ish …

I heard about Jane building walls, and I had some tumbledown walls on my property, so I tried to get in touch with her. Jane DeWitt: I was in my late 20s or early 30s then. It was about 13 years ago. I had come to the idea that stonework …

Jamaica is experiencing a marijuana shortage due to the effects of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. The Caribbean nation’s illegal market is being affected the most. According to TMZ, hurricane season wrecked weed fields and the ensuing drought made matters worse. “It destroyed everything,” Daneyel Bozra, who grows marijuana …

While it seemed everyone rushed to stock up on toilet paper at the start of the pandemic, a group of Black men saw it as an opportunity to launch a startup that brings a new toilet tissue line to the market. Five Black men from Ohio, who call themselves “mogul …

Photo: John Lamparski (Getty Images) Throughout the course of his 10-year NFL career, Martellus Bennett endured more than his fair share of labels. He was deemed a malcontent, immature and an assortment of other descriptors that unfairly detracted from his contributions on the field. But despite whatever coaches or journalists …

In the 1940s, Raymond Chandler, one of the most well-known detective-fiction writers, took his skills to Hollywood. He wrote for The Atlantic about his experience as a screenwriter, which he found thoroughly boring after only two years and stifling for writers’ talent, preferring instead the written page. His books would …

Super Bowl LV will be held this Sunday, Feb. 7 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida. Grammy award-winning artist The Weeknd will be the headline performer for the Halftime Show, which is presented by Pepsi and Roc Nation. Now the Weeknd has revealed he will be the only …