In October 2023, after two years of no dating — preoccupied caring for her sick parents and recovering from a difficult break-up — Shirley Williams, 39, implemented a new strategy to find her husband. First, she’d complete self-evaluation exercises, where she’d discover her flirting style and humor type, but also …
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On Wednesday morning, after the news of Donald Trump’s election victory broke, Libby Louwagie, 37, was in a state of shock as she dropped her daughter off at pre-school. As she took her daughter to her classroom, she felt conflicted. “I was walking through the hallways with my sunglasses on, …
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Zakiya Dalila Harris rarely saw another natural-haired Black woman in the office. But one time it did. She was an assistant editor at Knopf Doubleday, a publishing group within Penguin Random House, and a woman stepped into the bathroom. Instead of a serendipitous smile, though, Harris received the cold shoulder …
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When Harlem first aired in December 2021, Camille — the show’s protagonist, played by Meagan Good — reckoned with the changes to the once predominantly Black neighborhood. “The number of actual dateable men is bleak,” she lectured both to her television audience and a room of fictional students at Columbia …
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Here we fucking go again. The nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards were announced way too early on Tuesday morning — and among the well-deserved nods to Everything Everywhere All at Once and Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and some surprise nominations for indies like Women Talking …
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