Editorials
Bossip editorials and guest essays on issues of the day.
Detroit’s finest, Kash Doll, made it clear that she’s “Rich Off Rap” and here to stay as she lit up Center Stage Atlanta. On Saturday as part of her “The Last Doll Tour,” Kash Doll did her thing, performing filled with high energy, audience interaction, and a string of hits from her The Last Doll […]
When it comes to holiday movies, we’ve seen it all—clichés, snowstorms, and conveniently timed Christmas miracles, but BET+’s’ newest film, Too Many Christmases, brings a fresh take that’s hilariously chaotic and deeply relatable. Directed by Kenny Young, this movie isn’t just about the laughs—it’s about family, love, and the art of balancing the unbalanceable. Characters […]
The latest stars to grace the digital cover of EBONY Magazine are causing heart-eye hysteria and we’re totally here for it! It’s giving “We go together, real bad”–even if the two are clearly just acting. Our favorite chocolate beau, Kofi Siriboe, and his leading lady in Own’s Queen Sugar, Bianca Lawson, are depicting Black love […]
MTV Entertainment Studios and Smithsonian Channel announced the launching of its new project with Bassett Vance Productions. One Thousand Years of Slavery explores the history of slavery across the globe and its impact on the past, present and future.
GETTY Kim Kardashian West is on the official schedule of one President Donald Trump, as she is visiting to lobby to free an imprisoned black person she’s chosen in some Hunger Games-like one-by-one lottery. This time she’s lobbying to free Chris Young, who is serving life in Tennessee for cocaine and marijuana possession. These grandiose […]
Bossip Be Trippin: Essence Fest 2018 Before I tell you everything about my White Diamonds-splashed Essence Fest adventure in the auntie-flooded streets of NOLA, I’d like to introduce myself and our new Bossip Be Trippin series where we give you an exclusive glimpse into our wanderlusty travels to events around the world. I’m Alejandro, Associate Editor […]
Desus & Mero Talk To BOSSIP After Their First Live Show In Atlanta Desus Nice and The Kid Mero were welcomed with open arms for their first ever live performance in The Dirty South. The room erupted with equal parts cheers and “YEERRRRRs” as the Bronx’s best exports came to the stage parading their Dominican […]
In case you haven’t heard, XXXTentacion is a vile, unrepentant abuser of women. Yesterday, The Miami New Times detailed, once again, the horrifying ways he abused his ex, Geneva Ayala. Including threatening to stick a fork in her vagina, hold her head under water until she nearly drowned and beat her senseless while she was […]
In case you haven’t heard, the NFL’s 32 (plantation) owners got together to decide what they would do about those pesky anthem protests – you know the ones where players take a knee during the national anthem to raise awareness for injustices people of color face in America. The owners came to a solution that […]
Kanye West is a black man. He is not a free thinker. Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and banned from boxing for four year after refusing to fight in a war that only served to kill innocent people. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in cold blood after a lifetime of […]
Just two weeks ago, two young black men were arrested after a Starbucks barista called police on them for simply sitting down in the coffeehouse. Video captured the arrests and the clip went viral immediately. The reaction was swift and unrelenting. The young black men were clearly racially profiled and treated like they were because […]
Goodbye Mr. West, I could first wax poetic about the genius of your work or the rebellion in your actions, namely calling out George W. Bush for Katrina more than a decade ago, or being early on calling out Taylor Swift’s white privilege, but we’ll cut right straight to the point. You went too far […]