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For Black women, going to the hair salon used to be both a privilege and necessary during a time when our health depended on it. Dating as far back as the early 1900s, when Annie Turnbo Malone and Madam C.J. Walker created Black hair care products to help women in the South prevent damage, dandruff, alopecia, and other scalp diseases, getting your hair done helped Black women to assimilate into […]

Welcome to “What’s Good,” where we break down what’s soothing, distracting, or just plain good in the streaming world with a “rooting for everybody Black” energy.  What’s Good? In Season 5, Episode 9 of Scandal, Olivia Pope has an abortion. The episode aired in 2015, and aside from just being a really good piece of television (in Shonda Rhimes we trust), the actual abortion was good. After moving into The […]

Peter Baker walks near the clubhouse at Lake Ivanhoe on Saturday, April 16, 2022. Angela Major/WPR LAKE IVANHOE ,Wis. -- Peter Baker says he will never forget his first visit to Lake Ivanhoe. It was 1966. He was 9 years old and his friend brought him up from Chicago on a fishing trip. They caught dozens of fish, mostly bluegills and crappies. "We went home and I ran in the […]

Venice Williams and Demetrius Brown, Sr. of Alice’s Garden. (Picture by Liyah Sumner/Carvd N Stone) Alice’s Garden is a Milwaukee staple that has reached 50 years of operating in the city. It was established to create a space for the community to learn how to grow their own healthy food, and that’s exactly what it has been doing.Alice’s Garden has become a place for peace through projects, workshops and events […]

These Black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction authors build fantastical worlds that reach beyond what we experience here on Earth. Story makes the world go round. It’s a tool for us to preserve and process the past but it is also a means by which we conjure our futures. Writers throughout time have taken... Read more » The post Other Worldly: 8 Black Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction […]

In celebration of Juneteenth, Clorox hosted a Glow & Roll roller rink at Refinery29 Unbothered’s The Glow Up event in Atlanta, resulting in a truly spectacular night rooted in Black joy. On that note, we took a look at the history of roller rinks in the U.S., the significant role roller skating plays in the Black community, and how it’s become the ultimate form of self-expression. Growing up in Brooklyn’s […]

On Juneteenth weekend, the Unbothered crew brought the heat with us to Atlanta for our first-ever in-person event, The Glow Up. It’s been a week since the amazing inaugural festival, but we’re still swooning over the vibes we were able to bring to life for our community. Between entertaining panels, must-see performances, and a rollerskating experience straight out of Roll Bounce, The Glow Up was everything that we wanted it to […]

What makes a good soundtrack to a love story? That’s the question we asked authors Ashley M. Coleman (Good Morning, Love), Ebony LaDelle (Love Radio), and Akwaeke Emezi (You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty). For these authors — who are getting ready to release a romance novel or have just released one (Emezi’s hit bookshelves this week) — this summer is all about Black love. To tap […]