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15 Black Folklore Stories to Know Ahead of Spooky Season

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If you’re Black, you’ve been told by someone in your family about some haint, a reappearing phantom or a folktale that left you with chills. In honor of spooky season coming, it’s only right for us to recount some of our Black favorites. Read more…

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Light-Eyed and Dangerous: Michael Ealy’s Best Bad-Guy Roles

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Michael Ealy is opening up about one of his most difficult roles over the course of his career. Despite being one of Hollywood’s most handsome actors, the “Reasonable Doubt” star recently told “Bel-Air” star Jabari Banks in an interview for Springhill that some of his uglier characters have caused him to deal with… Read more…

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The Essential James Baldwin Reading List

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James Baldwin was a brilliant writer and a steadfast civil rights activist. His collection of novels, essays and poems touch on themes of sexuality and race and describe all that is painful and beautiful about being Black in America. Religion is central in almost all of his work, inspired by his life growing up as

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