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10 Jan

Zahara Jolie-Pitt Is Headed To Spelman College! – Essence

Jon Kopaloff/WireImage Zahara Jolie-Pitt, daughter of Academy Award-winning stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, is a recent highschool graduate. The 17-year-old is about to proceed her studies, heading off to one of the popular and esteemed historically Black colleges and Universities within the country — Spelman College. The wonder celebrated not only together with her famous mom, but a slew of Spelman alumni, other incoming freshman and current students. On Saturday (July 30), mother and daughter linked up with the Spelman and Morehouse alumni associations for the ‘Spelhouse’ Back to School Send Off event in North Hollywood, a fundraiser that brought everyone together. View this post on Instagram ...

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9 Jan

How Purse First Is Breaking Up The Boys Club

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How Purse First Is Breaking Up The Boys Club

In the summertime of 2020, Sesali Bowen was working on her memoir Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist. As she reflected on her experiences growing up in what she calls “the bad b-tch era,” she realized that while queer and female rappers were having a moment in Hip-Hop, there have been no podcasts to capture it. So Bowen went in regards to the business of making one. She reached out to Pierre Phipps, one half of the rap duo Freaky Boiz, to assist her co-host and the show, Purse First, launched that following January. The phrase comes from a Black colloquialism which Bowen believes originated from street-based, sex work culture. The total phrase, “Purse first, ass last” speaks to...

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9 Jan

TS Madison Talks Being Sampled Beyoncé’s Song ‘Cozy’ –

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TS Madison Talks Being Sampled Beyoncé’s Song ‘Cozy’ –

TS Madison is the queen of hearts. The unfiltered, hilarious thoughts she shares online have gained her a legion of fans and thrust her into virality time and time again. The widely shared moments range from an early Vine of Madison yelling “Latest weave, 22 inches” to a more moderen one where she finds out that Selena was, in reality, not Puerto Rican. The social media and tv personality has funneled the eye into money-making ventures. Over the past three years, she’s pierced the mainstream with a 2-episode guest slot on RuPaul’s Drag Race and a task within the award-winning 2020 film Zola. She also made history as the primary trans woman to executive produce and host a reality series, The...

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9 Jan

Scholar Sami Schalk Seeks To Merge The Worlds Of

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Scholar Sami Schalk Seeks To Merge The Worlds Of

In her newest book, Black Disability Politics, Dr. Sami Schalk, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies on the University of Wisconsin-Madison discusses the parallels between racial activism and advocacy for those with disabilities. Relying heavily on research, the book partners the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women’s Project with interviews of present day Black disabled cultural employees. ESSENCE recently spoke with Schalk about her book, set for release October 31, and the role that systemic oppression plays in disability politics. For individuals who may not have familiarity with Black disability politics, are you able to define what it's? SAMI SCHALK (SS): I define disability politics generally as engagement with disability as a social and political issue...

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