In June, the harrowing documentary series Surviving R. Kelly took home a prestigious Peabody Award for exposing the decades of abuse perpetrated by the singer against underage girls and young women, all with the complicity of the music industry and his fans.
Santa Barbara is a lovely coastal town filled with wealthy people in ostentatious designer clothes, wealthy people camouflaged in surf wear, and lots and lots of tourists. Its laid back vibe belies the astronomical cost of living there, and yet, it’s still hilarious to picture Meghan Markle and Prince Harry cruising…
President Trump has already gleefully taken to calling Sen. Kamala Harris—Joe Biden’s official 2020 running mate— “nasty” and “mean,” but he must not have thought she was so bad when he donated $6,000 to her re-election campaign.
It was always going to be Kamala Harris. Wasn’t it obvious? Joe Biden, hardly a man who has inspired excitement, needed a jolt of relatively youthful energy. The resurgent Black Lives Matter movement meant that it mattered to him and to activists, if not to most voters, that his choice possess what he deemed the…
Sometimes I wish I couldn’t read, because it would allow me to spend what little time I have not perusing news of recently disgraced men. But, you know what they say about wishes: they’re like pennies. And I have far fewer pennies than former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who used space in his boutique newsletter…
The world can be utterly bleak nowadays. A government that seems to actively hate health and science, an economy ruled by a handful of lying billionaires, and continued state-sanctioned violence against Black people have ushered in a modern dystopia. But as I finished Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland’s stellar follow…
Town & Country, the favored magazine of the American aristocracy, is among the oldest general-interest publications in the country: Founded in 1846 by a writer who coined the term “upper ten thousand” to describe the highest echelons of New York City society in which he moved, it’s been serving the ruling class the…
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s ode to good pussy hasn’t even been out in the world for a week, thrilling countless women who have spent their entire lives searching for an empowerment anthem about a natural biological fact. As is the case whenever a woman deigns to express agency over her body and what it does,…
Who is the shadiest, most powerful, and most spiteful of them all? This is Jezebel’s definitive power ranking for Season 1o of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Results are tallied throughout the season, based purely on friendships, storylines, confrontations, confessional looks, and our very good instinct.
The first women’s amateur boxing match sanctioned by USA Boxing was held in 1993, on the campus of Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, Washington. The two fighters, Dallas Malloy and Heather Poyner, made history in front of a crowd of 1189 people. But took 16 more years for the International Olympic Committee to…
Donald Trump has a new personal mascot he’s parading around in a desperate attempt to fuel his re-election campaign: the suburban housewife. “The ‘suburban housewife’ will be voting for me,” he Tweeted on Tuesday, shortly after the Biden campaign announced Kamala Harris as VP. “They want safety & are thrilled that I…
Imagine it: You’re born into the most powerful family in the U.K. From birth, you’ve been afforded wealth, vacations, fashion, paparazzi, job opportunities, charity board seats, live television appearances. Your cousin is the soon-to-be king, and you will live and die as a permanent princess, an heiress to the spoils…
On Tuesday, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vocal QAnon supporter who has posted racist videos and threatened to hunt down antifa, won the Republican runoff in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, all but securing her eventual Congressional seat in a district that has historically run red.
Bill Cosby has filed a new appeal in Pennsylvania Supreme Court, arguing that the trial that netted him a sexual assault conviction was “fundamentally unfair.”
Despite a well-funded opponent and some rumblings that her Congressional seat was at risk, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar won her Minnesota primary election on Tuesday.
Beauty influencer and activist Jackie Aina will executive produce and star in a documentary on Black women in the beauty space, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
You know how I know America is inherently racist? There are multiple schools named after Confederate generals and KKK leaders, and it took the deaths of multiple Black people and months of protests for school boards to finally go, “You know, we might have a problem here.”
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