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Grammy-winning artist Lizzo enjoyed a major breakthrough in 2019 with her album Cuz I Love You. Now she's back with Special, which features one of the summer's most inescapable songs "About Damn Time." The album features songs about love, affirmation, friendship, empowerment, and confidence. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

In the premiere episode of the HBO Max comedy Rap Sh!t, executive producer Issa Rae's first major project post-Insecure, Shawna (Aida Osman), a socially conscious rapper, fervently announces her retirement from the rap game. Never mind that she's a relatively unknown 20-something artist who's barely stepped foot in the game to begin with – after dropping out of college to work with a producer, she's found only fleeting, minor viral […]

(L-R): Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie and Natalie Portman as Mighty Thor in Marvel Studios’ THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER. Photo by Jasin Boland. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved. This story includes spoilers for Thor: Love & Thunder. Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in full swing, and fans of the superhero franchise are being treated to a slate of exciting stories that weaves new characters into the expansive […]

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 […]