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The Real Housewives of Potomac Season-Finale Recap: Jumping the SharkIt is finally time for Karen’s vow renewal, which is a setup for another dinner party from hell.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: All AboardAre Robyn and Gizelle’s powers beginning to decline?
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: All Hands on DeckStriking that most people agree that Candiace could be handling all this better.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: You Know the VibesIf Candiace wants to make it in the R&B/hip-hop world after landing this distribution deal, dissing strippers is not the way to go.
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What I Learned About R. Kelly’s Biggest FansWhen I heard they were attending the singer’s trial to show their support, I had to go see for myself.
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overnights
The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Home ImprovementMia and Candiace fully get into an argument about Mia’s gossiping in the music video. Robyn and Gizelle seem hellbent on stoking tension with Wendy.
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overnights
The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Dude, Where’s My Car?Candiace’s intrusive mother enters the chat and reads Chris for being a lousy manager and husband just in time for Candiace’s upcoming music video.
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overnights
The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: That’s the Gospel TruthMia’s penchant for producing mess is in full effect during her goddess party.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: The Milkmaid’s TaleAshley agitates something deep in Candiace that at times is warranted, but frequently ends up being an overreaction.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Whip My HairWe’re in the messy aftermath of Wendy’s read of Gizelle and Robyn now.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: The Devil Wears ZaraLadies, gents, and everyone in between, Zen Wen has officially arrived.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Style Over SubstanceGizelle needs to know that it’s tasteless to feign worry so that she can snark on Wendy’s body.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Bananas in PajamasRobyn realizes she needs to get her groove back as Mia continues to put her girlboss stamp on the show.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: The Curious Case of Zen WenSeason Two Wendy is itching to create a moment that she isn’t ready to deliver just yet.
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The Wild Wonders of Biz MarkieAppreciating the late hip-hop maestro is a full-body sensory experience.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: The Not-So-Newlywed GameThere can only be one girlboss in this cast, and Wendy is dead set on making sure that woman is her.
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RHOP Season-Premiere Recap: Over the Valleys and Hills We GoIf Gizelle and Karen are going to continue anchoring the conflict this season, they are really going to need to elevate these reads.
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta Bolo Leak Was a Fourth-Wall-Poking Power PlayIf you only watched the show’s version of the fallout from Cynthia Bailey’s bachelorette party, you didn’t get the whole story.
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Black Excellence Has Arrived on The Real Housewives of New York CityEboni K. Williams thinks she might be the exact right person for this moment.
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Tarana Burke Is Just Trying to Do Her WorkA long talk about Black women, Me Too, and intentions with the activist and founder.
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The Irreplaceable Black Rob, Bad Boy’s First Street StoryHis ascendance is pivotal to documenting the rise of Bad Boy Records, both before and after Biggie.
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Not-Quite-FriendsmasDrew’s final altercation with Latoya is the haphazard centerpiece of a lackluster conclusion to a frustrating season.
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Blocking Your BlessingsWe finally get to the root of the church caper that has been vexing Drew, and the girls make a U-turn right back into Bolo Court.
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Fakeration in this DancerieIt takes a while, but Porsha finally gives the interrogation of her sex life by a co-worker the level of respect that it deserves.
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: A Healing Twerk CenterThe ladies are off to the Crescent City for some po’ boys, zydeco, and failed attempts at conflict resolution.
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Snakes on the TerrainFirmly establishing her brand as a chaos agent, Toya systemically dismantles Falynn’s Halloween “party,” one confrontation at a time.
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reasons to love new york
Farewell to That Gentrifying Harlem Restaurant I Really Won’t MissIt catered to the people the owner wanted to see in the neighborhood, not the people who were already there.
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where it started at
Your Guide to New York Rap’s Next GenerationThere is far from a dearth of emerging talent across the five boroughs — and it’s not just concentrated in drill.
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where it started at
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‘You Can’t Escape Him, He’s Ubiquitous’Two years ago, Sil Lai Abrams named Russell Simmons as her rapist. She’s still fighting to be heard.
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Patricia Okoumou and the Dual Threat to Black ImmigrantsHer Statue of Liberty protest reminded the country that corrosive immigration laws have an effect on black communities, too.
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Black Loiterers, White Lingerers, and Starbucks CoffeeAn incident at Starbucks illustrates how norms are racially coded and why the concept of “unconscious bias” is sometimes misleading.
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The Death and Afterlife of Stephon ClarkThe violence of police brutality can follow Black Muslim victims and their families beyond the grave.
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appreciations
The New Essence Is a Salon-Chair Dream Come TrueThe return of all-black ownership of the magazine is coming at exactly the right time.
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