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  • Lesson No. 001: Ask Him

    by Tolani

    Circling the jam-packed lots of malls, churches, and stadiums looking for parking, my mom would do this peculiar thing… We, the passengers, would scoff, laugh to ourselves, or think what is she doing? But nine times out of ten, not only would she immediately find a parking spot, it’d often be damn near VIP-type parking. So, whenever we’d pass up a good time because...

    February 5, 2018
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May 6, 2018

16 Brilliant Tweets on Childish Gambino’s This Is America

Sunday morning, I woke up to a frenzy of tweets hailing Childish Gambino as a genius. If you happened...

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April 18, 2018

Raiding Zoey Johnson’s Closet

Along with her A Different World-esque Black-ish spinoff, it’s only right that Zoey Johnson’s wardrobe rise to the standard set by its...

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April 6, 2018

25 Thoughts & Questions I Had While Watching That CRAZY LEGION Premiere

Marvel X-Men fans, if FX's LEGION has flown under your radar you need to get your life. Visually awe-inspiring, delightfully...

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April 2, 2018

8 Bookstagrammers You Need to Follow Right Now

At the end of  a Book Club Influencer panel, I approached Glory Edim—founder of the Well-Read Black Girl universe...

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25 Thoughts & Questions I Had While Watching That CRAZY LEGION Premiere

Published by Tolani

Marvel X-Men fans, if FX's LEGION has flown under your radar you need to get your life. Visually awe-inspiring, delightfully trippy, confusing AF, of all of the Marvel shows and...

April 6, 2018
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TV & Film

8 Bookstagrammers You Need to Follow Right Now

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At the end of  a Book Club Influencer panel, I approached Glory Edim—founder of the Well-Read Black Girl universe and—leaving all professional agenda behind—stuck out my hand and said,...

April 2, 2018
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Life Lessons from Gabrielle Union

Published by Tolani

Don’t side-eye me, book lovers and publishing folk, but I spent almost all of 2017 hoarding books and not really reading any of them. On one such book-hoarding occasion,...

March 5, 2018
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HWIL: Issue No. 002 — New Fiction from Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini Announces New Book omgomgomgomg   A post shared by Khaled Hosseini (@khosseini) on Feb 21, 2018 at 7:57am PST 50 Beautiful Book Covers Featuring Black Women #RepresentationMatters...

February 23, 2018
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Lesson No. 001: Ask Him

by Tolani

Circling the jam-packed lots of malls, churches, and stadiums looking for parking, my mom would do this peculiar thing… We, the passengers, would scoff, laugh to ourselves, or think what is she doing? But nine times out of ten, not only would she immediately find a parking spot, it’d often be damn near VIP-type parking. So, whenever we’d pass up a good time because we predicted the parking prospects would be bleak, mom would pull us in close and let us in on her little secret...

February 5, 2018
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16 Brilliant Tweets on Childish Gambino’s This Is America

by Tolani

Sunday morning, I woke up to a frenzy of tweets hailing Childish Gambino as a genius. If you happened to have been watching SNL or catching up on Atlanta and witnessed the brilliance of his alter ego Donald Glover— this is not news. What many of us were not expecting was for Childish Gambino to enrich our lives and minds with new music. Embedded in a tweet, I...

May 6, 2018
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Culture

Raiding Zoey Johnson’s Closet

by Tolani

Along with her A Different World-esque Black-ish spinoff, it’s only right that Zoey Johnson’s wardrobe rise to the standard set by its predecessor. Not only did we look to Denise Huxtable for inspiration during her tenure on The Cosby Show but once on A Different World, we also got Whitley and her “bad and bougie” outfits, Dwayne’s African touches, and—let’s admit it—Ron’s bright silk shirts even captured our...

April 18, 2018
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25 Thoughts & Questions I Had While Watching That CRAZY LEGION Premiere

by Tolani

Marvel X-Men fans, if FX's LEGION has flown under your radar you need to get your life. Visually awe-inspiring, delightfully trippy, confusing AF, of all of the Marvel shows and films out there, LEGION is unlike any you have and ever will watch. In season 1, we meet the eccentric and catastrophe-prone, David Haller—AKA LEGION, an omega-level mutant with crazy-intense telekinetic abilities and a split mind...

April 6, 2018
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TV & Film

8 Bookstagrammers You Need to Follow Right Now

by Tolani

At the end of  a Book Club Influencer panel, I approached Glory Edim—founder of the Well-Read Black Girl universe and—leaving all professional agenda behind—stuck out my hand and said, “I’ve just always wanted to meet you.” Can you blame me? Glory’s busted the entire world of well-read black girls wide open, promoting black women writers and creating a community for girls like her (like...

April 2, 2018
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Books, Lists

HWIL: Issue No. 005 — Books Not Bullets

by Tolani

Black Students at Stoneman Douglas High Hold a Press Conference on Gun and Police Violence “I don’t think anybody’s intentionally excluding them, but nobody’s intentionally including them, either…”   A post shared by Eeni | Globetrotter (@eeni_edit) on Mar 14, 2018 at 9:58am PDT David Hogg Calls for a Boycott of Laura Ingraham’s Advertisers And um… wow, Hulu, Nutrish and more are pulling their...

March 30, 2018
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5 Simple Work Hacks for the Scatter-Brained

by Tolani

When projects get out of hand, when the team is short-staffed, when plans change—I have to admit, I haven’t always had the capacity to pick up the slack when called to do so. These periods end up highlighting how much I’m actually lacking the organizational skills needed to handle curve balls and, well, move up in my career. And when these...

March 25, 2018
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The Grind

HWIL: Issue No. 004 – More Dora Milaje Means More Black Girl Magic

by Tolani

The Dora Milaje Are Officially Getting Their Own Marvel Spinoff The Queens Live Life Lessons from the Financially-Driven Millennial The best articles on money—the advice may surprise you… Lena Waithe Changing the Game in Vanity Fair …while rocking a Well-Read Black Girl tee ✨I woke up to a ton of beautiful text messages telling me that @LenaWaithe wore a #WellReadBlackGirl t-shirt in @VanityFair! Lena...

March 23, 2018
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Life Lessons from Gabrielle Union

by Tolani

Don’t side-eye me, book lovers and publishing folk, but I spent almost all of 2017 hoarding books and not really reading any of them. On one such book-hoarding occasion, I got to hear Gabrielle Union speak about her memoir, We’re Going to Need More Wine, at an event sponsored by CBS University, the CBS Diversity Counsel, and the CBS Women’s Networking Group. I walked...

March 5, 2018
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Raiding Zoey Johnson’s Closet

Along with her A Different World-esque Black-ish spinoff, it’s only right that Zoey Johnson’s wardrobe rise to the standard set by its predecessor. Not only did we look to Denise Huxtable for...

April 18, 2018
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My Dresscapades

Can We Talk About Killmonger’s Museum Look?

Of the many movements our collective trip to Wakanda has inspired, a move toward a wardrobe full of African pride is one of the more exciting ones. There were...

February 27, 2018
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