Two weeks ago, Tennessee passed a six-week abortion ban—one of the strictest in the country—as constituents slept. But in addition to being unconstitutional, the ban specifically targets people of color, writes Tina Vasquez in Prism.

After a barrage of accusations and threats to publish incriminating evidence to support their claims, the group of current and former Essence staffers who comprise #BlackFemaleAnonymous say their conditions have been met. The announcement, made via a tweet on Thursday night, came a day ahead of the collective’s…

Vogue Portugal is getting backlash for its July/August cover, which features a woman curled up in a bathtub while two old timey nurses pour water over her. The theme is “madness” and it’s...not a good look!

Who’s the shadiest, most powerful, most spiteful of them all? These are Jezebel’s definitive power rankings for Real Housewives. Results are tallied, based purely on friendships, storylines, confrontations, confessional looks, and our very good instinct.

A Massachusetts city will become the first in the country to recognize polyamorous relationships, as part of a larger domestic partnership ordinance.

The Purge, a franchise that’s spawned four films over the past seven years and a television series, is one of those completely outrageous concepts that seems like it could happen in the real world. Before it was a cultural phenomenon, though, it all began with 2013's The Purge, starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey.

RuPaul has deleted his Twitter and Instagram accounts. Was he hacked? Or is he just fed up with squandering his life in the quagmire of social media? Maybe both?

The best books for long sticky days are the ones that unwind slowly, ideally over the backdrop of erotic tension and impending doom: This summer, while we’re all stuck more or less away from other people, I’d suggest Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History. And if you’ve already read it, try reading it again.

Unilever’s Indian subsidiary, Hindustan Unilever, has announced that its popular skin-lightening cream Fair & Lovely will be renamed Glow & Lovely. This rebrand isn’t shocking, as the company pledged a week ago to remove the words “white”, “light”, and “fair” from the packaging of their products after once again coming…

After recent protests at the Hampton homes of figures such as New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, real estate developer Stephen Ross, and CEO Steven Schwarzman, the New York Post reports that many wealthy Hampton residents are hiring security guards to “protect” themselves (and their homes). The co-founder of one…

Rapper Vanilla Ice has indefinitely postponed a concert that was scheduled to happen in Austin, Texas this Friday after receiving intense criticism online when he posted about the performance. Despite the fact that last week, the governor of Texas shut down bars and clubs in an effort to curb the spread of covid-19,…

Just a few short weeks ago, the entire city of Tulsa, Oklahoma banded together to tell the president that the middle of a pandemic is not the best time for a visit, to which the Trump administration unilaterally replied: “It’ll probably be fine.”

My mother is the reason I feel so strongly about aprons, mostly because I have no real memory of her cooking anything without one. Even though she is an impeccably clean woman who rarely drops food on her body when she cooks or eats, this immaculateness is due in part to the fact that before she begins cooking a meal,…

Whether you were willing to wait for it or not, you’ll no longer have to after today: On July 3, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s revolutionary, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical blockbuster Hamilton is coming to Disney+. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the Fourth of July weekend than by hosting a virtual Hamilton…

Netflix’s soft porn romance film 365 Days, is still sitting atop the streaming platform’s Top 10 list despite being just an NSFW version of Beauty and the Beast, a much better movie. The film focuses on Massimo, a gangster, and Laura, a woman he kidnaps for a year in an attempt to get her to fall in love with him,…