Break Ups Saweetie & Quavo in the elevator The internet was set ablaze yesterday after TMZ dropped video footage of Saweetie and Quavo having an altercation in an elevator that reportedly happened last year. They just broke up two weeks ago, after a whirlwind interview with Justin LaBoy and Justin Combs (and rumours of a physical altercation between By Melayna • Mar 31, 2021 01:15 pm
TV Updates Should Meghan McCain leave The View? Meghan McCain has been trending all week, but she lives rent free in my head for other reasons too. I’ve been watching the show every day for the past three years and I am here to admit that I am an anti-racist and anti-conservative liberal who loves Meghan McCain By Melayna • Mar 26, 2021 12:42 pm
Douchebags The Talk Unravels in Real Time We are seeing talk show The Talk unravel in real time. It might not be a bad thing; I think it’s good for talk TV in general and good for the public to see what happens when white fragility is accepted, centered, and in this case, upheld. Of course, By Melayna • Mar 16, 2021 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is there value to Coming 2 America? The highly anticipated Coming 2 America dropped on Amazon Prime to record numbers last Friday. While Sarah handled the review, I was intending to write about what a joyous occasion this movie release was, despite the pandemic. I wanted to paint a picture of what life would look like if By Melayna • Mar 09, 2021 11:00 am
Kobe Bryant Vanessa Bryant covers PEOPLE Vanessa Bryant covers PEOPLE Magazine’s Women Changing the World. She talks about coping with the unimaginable loss of her late husband, Kobe Bryant, and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant. Not only has Vanessa had to grieve publicly, but Kobe’s superstar status means she has had to accept that By Melayna • Mar 04, 2021 11:29 am
Golden Globes 2021 Chadwick Boseman’s Golden Globe Last night, Chadwick Boseman took home the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, the fourth Black actor to do so in the award’s history. Of course, there is endless significance to this win. We are still dealing with the magnitude of his loss; it came By Melayna • Mar 01, 2021 07:42 am
Break Ups Kim and Kanye: The End of an Era Kim Kardashian filed for divorce this past Friday, and it came as a surprise to no one. There have been whispers and yells about the marriage being over for months. While some of the reports have differed in some details, most sourcing points to Kanye West’s failed presidential run By Melayna • Feb 23, 2021 11:19 am
TV Updates Search Party Spoilers ahead. Search Party is one of the most underrated and underappreciated shows in the era of Peak TV. This is a post for those of us who know and for those of you who should. Search Party, which originally aired on TBS, is a delicious dark comedy some of By Melayna • Jul 22, 2020 11:48 am
TV Updates Little Fires Everywhere The Emmy nominations will be announced in less than two weeks on July 28 which is why we’ve seen all this virtual campaigning, and given the names involved, Little Fires Everywhere could be a strong contender. Warning: Literally all spoilers Little Fires Everywhere is a beautiful limited series, led By Melayna • Jul 16, 2020 03:45 pm
Douchebags 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, and the misogyny in rap Last weekend, a clip began to circulate of 50 Cent on Lil Wayne’s radio show where he was ranting about Black women’s reaction to him dating “exotic women”, which kicked off a stream of consciousness that is very difficult to follow. Here’s some of what he said: By Melayna • Jul 10, 2020 10:39 am
Cheating Loins Jada and August’s Complicated History As if the Smiths weren’t already having the craziest week ever, after Jada Pinkett Smith and Jaden Smith called out Youtuber Shane Dawson for sexualizing Willow Smith when she was 11, they’ve been hit with what seems to be confirmation of a long-standing rumour of an affair between By Melayna • Jul 02, 2020 12:23 pm
Music The Performances at the virtual BET Awards The 2020 BET Awards, held virtually, was one of my favourite BET Awards in many years; things may be upside down right now, but Black people continue to shine. Hosted by Amanda Seales, with her usual humour and authenticity, the show promised to be “Black Black” and showcasing the creativity By Melayna • Jun 29, 2020 11:08 am
TV Updates #BlackAF renewed #BlackAF has been renewed for a second season. This is such great news for me, I was confused when Lainey told me cause my biased mind had already renewed it before it was actually real. I made my allegiances to this extremely messy show back in April, here. Now that By Melayna • Jun 26, 2020 02:26 pm
Music Noname, J. Cole, and Toxic Power Dynamics (This is the latest entry to our Long Reads section. For more Long Reads, please visit the Long Reads page.) Last week, through music and tweets, we witnessed what some are calling a rap beef, what others are calling healthy discourse, and what I am calling Black men inserting themselves, By Melayna • Jun 23, 2020 01:25 pm
Douchebags Mark Wahlberg, Black Lives Matter, allyship, and forgiveness On June 4th, superstar actor and producer Mark Wahlberg tweeted in support of Black Lives Matter against the murder of George Floyd: The murder of George Floyd is heartbreaking. We must all work together to fix this problem. I'm praying for all of us. God bless. #blacklivesmatter ❤🙏❤ pic. By Melayna • Jun 08, 2020 10:35 am
Maple Leaf Is Lilly Singh listening? (This is the latest installment in our Long Reads series. Previous entries can be accessed here). Last Monday, Lilly Singh, late night talk show host, YouTuber, comedian, and relentless cultural appropriator of Caribbean culture dropped a “remake” of dancehall track ,“Badman Forward, Badman Pull Up” by Ding Dong with this By Melayna • May 05, 2020 10:43 am
