Kathleen Newman-Bremang
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deputy director, global | @r29unbothered | freelance producer | award-winning writer kathleen.newman-bremang @refinery29 .com 🍋
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#OscarNoms
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john boyega 🤝🏾 loving & appreciating dark skinned black women
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india amarteifio’s queen charlotte press tour hair >>>
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Y’all cute with your “a photo of you in January 2020, blissfully unaware” pics.
Me in January:
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“Beyoncé, you just made Grammy history!”
Beyoncé:
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Relieved that Harry Styles story didn’t happen to young me because I would have definitely gotten “PS. I FED THE FISH” tattooed on my body.
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“tomorrow’s picture day!!!” what makes this so great is the stakes are HIGH.
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Kelendria Brianne Clarkson has not been bodying covers for literally two decades for y’all to be acting brand new over this!!!
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all you need to know about that rom-com list is that not a single queen latifah movie made it and brown sugar isn’t on it. automatically discredited. no further discussion, your honour.
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waited to watch this clip until i saw the film and now that i have, this is it. this is the review.
At the film’s premiere, Osage language consultant Christopher Cote shares his complicated feelings about
#KillersOfTheFlowerMoon
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no celebrity is above reproach. period. and when it comes to liberation, artistry and action, critiquing beyoncé in this moment is necessary. this by angelica jade bastién, one of the greatest critics in the game, is essential reading.
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“visibility these days seems to somehow equate to success. do not be afraid to disappear. from it. from us. for awhile. and see what comes to you in the silence.” crying. thank you
@MichaelaCoel
#Emmys
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normalize romance leads actually having chemistry like this for the love of god!!!!
lana condor and noah centineo’s original chemistry read for ‘to all the boys i’ve loved before’ (2018)
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(there’s something to be said about her getting access to black artists that black media do not for sure, but this??? 10/10 red carpet interview)
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lololol Bieber said I have meticulously appropriated this genre and you WILL reward me for it dammit!
Justin Bieber reacts to being nominated in ‘pop’ categories at
#GRAMMYs
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“I am very meticulous & intentional about my music. With that being said I set out to make an R&B album. Changes is an R&B album. It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album which is very strange to me,”
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I usually save shit like this for the ‘gram but I’M ON A BILLBOARD and I refuse to be chill about it!!!
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we’re watching a white supremacist reframing of this narrative in real time — to “sacrifice” instead of murder, to “one bad cop” instead of a system that kills us, to “reform” instead of abolish. George Floyd was murdered. defund the fucking police.
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memorialize tina turner without mentioning that man challenge
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“Thank you to Tracee Ellis Ross for losing. Bad bitches don’t lose often but when they do, they don’t care.” -
@IssaRae
Comedy! Let Issa give all the speeches!
#NAACPImageAwards
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UNIQUE!!!! no but I am proud of her like she is my cousin 😭
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ok but it’s lowkey embarrassing to drop a surprise album the same day Beyoncé said we’re doing rollouts again beloveds
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#OprahMeghanHarry
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#Oscars
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I hope y’all understand the courage it took for
@LaineyGossip
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she prioritized us, which rarely ever happens. anyway, Black celebs hire Black people to be on your team!!!
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#GoldenGlobes
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Wait — I figured out why we can’t stop watching Emily In Paris.
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This has come up in my feed at least 15 times today and I tear up every time I see it. It’s the look she gives before she even speaks. Devastating.
Duchess Meghan also opens up in the documentary about dealing with negative press during her pregnancy:
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Jodie’s public thirst for her husband is the brightness our dark timelines deserve.
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ahead of tonight’s
#thisisus
finale, I spoke to my family the Black Pearsons and I swear I only cried like five times writing this. 😭
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What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
A personal reflection on Black women, media, and dream jobs:
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now that meghan markle is out of the palace she can really start dressin
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SHOULD HAVE CALLED THE WHOLE YEAR OFF RIGHT THEN.
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IT IS TOO EARLY FOR LARA JEAN COVEY AND HER MANS TO FUCK ME UP LIKE THIS. *faints*
Lara Jean + Peter 4 ever ... right??
To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You premieres February 12
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REGINA HALL, EVERYBODY. one of the best comedians of this generation. hands down. she was just off the cuff killing us all. a legend!
#goldenglobes
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A thing that makes me like Meghan Markle so much is how much the Karens hate her.
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everyone giving Venus her flowers right alongside Serena tonight is making me cry the hardest
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every new detail in Britney Spears’ testimony is more horrifying than the last. this is clearly a woman who wants to/ can take care of herself but has been forcibly denied that right because of power, greed & misogyny. 🗣 FREE BRITNEYYYY
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it’s so clear the “fans” who pushed zendaya to perform her grief in a way that they deemed acceptable have never actually experienced loss like this in real life. the last thing you are thinking about *the same day* of the news is posting to a fucking app for strangers.
Zendaya via IG 📸
“I am so grateful I got the chance to know him in this life, to call him a brother, to see his warm kind eyes and bright smile, or hear his infectious cackle of a laugh…”
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Oops - almost forgot to drop this here: celebrating my almost two-year anniversary at
@Refinery29
with some news: Your girl’s got a new role and title: SENIOR EDITOR (of R29 Unbothered)!!!! PITCH ME.
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“I prayed, I prayed” 😭😭😭 Lee Isaac Chung’s daughter and this Minari win broke me.
#GoldenGlobes
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Janelle is killing this but THE AUDACITY OF THE
#OSCARS
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Can I put "made Judy Greer cry" on my resume? I produced this segment on
@TheSocialCTV
yesterday and she was a DELIGHT.
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thought it was really *interesting* that barely anyone used their
#goldenglobes
platforms to stand for something (anything!). and the ones who did delivered the night’s best moments. wrote about the show’s missing backbone:
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has julianna margulies been dropped from anything yet?
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Nothing but respect for MY husband of Beyoncé, MY father of Blue Ivy, and MY president of Roc Nation.
via
@evanrosskatz
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“I don’t have to depend on anyone else for stability. I can provide stability for myself… I can be a solid house that doesn’t blow over in a storm.” just tweeting this as a reminder to ME.
#adele
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love & basketball is NOT a romcom
We compiled the best romcoms of all time—from ‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’ to ‘Moonstruck’ to three Nora Ephron classics.
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Macklemore, Adele and Billie Eilish have all done the “I won but a Black artist deserved this” speech and even when they right, it’s embarrassing for everyone involved!
#GRAMMYs
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CanCon is having a moment. We need to talk about the great white elephant in the room. My latest for
@Refinery29
🇨🇦:
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her stage presence. that swagger. the voice!!! inimitable. a true icon
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no that’s my emotional support kelendria brianne clarkson covering jazmine sullivan
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jonathan said “that’s your business” LOLOL listen that’s my man and imma stick beside him but this is embarrassing!!!
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give me 100000 more interviews where jonathan and michael just love on each other
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i braced myself for jamie’s win. she had the momentum after the SAGs & she’s beloved by her peers (and the oscars are gonna oscars) but the heartbreak in angela’s face is gonna stay with me. the clear hurt/ shock/ disappointment… *heavy sigh*
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not only is celine a legend that should be acknowledged on ANY day, she also hasn’t been to an event in awhile because she has a debilitating disease… like ????? show some respect
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this issa and molly scene is destroying me. they have always been the love story at the heart of this show. and they are the only ones I truly ever cared about getting their happily ever after. 😭
#insecurehbo
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still thinking about the time I interviewed Issa last year and she said she didn’t have a “public bae” and then she gave this iconic quote to Rolling Stone about relationships and privacy:
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