Kel & Mel Reviews

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Lupita Nyong’o graces the cover of ELLE for ‘THE ODYSSEY.’

tell em that it’s human nature 🌹💐🌸☀️🌷🌳✨

Janet Jackson tells Billboard Japan that she plans to release NEW MUSIC by the end of the year!!

The music that moved everybody. #EarthWindandFireHBO premieres June 7 on @HBOMax.

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”. This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group. What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact. Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility. This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

Fun Fact: I started my ig as a food blog when I was broke so I could eat for free but then my music blew up 🤪

Now they mad Betty Boop will be Black in a movie even though the animated character was based on a Black woman, Esther Jones

Faith Evans. I Love You

Five days 5 verses you probably never heard from Kendrick Lamar Day 1: Dom Kennedy — “We Ball”

Now ask his assistants

Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles. A move that could make it significantly harder for independent websites to gain organic traffic starting next Tuesday.

Hollywood finally getting casting right. That’s Betty Boop right there.

BREAKING: Barney Frank, a longtime Democratic congressman who crafted financial reforms and brought visibility to gay rights, dies. apnews.com/article/barney…

People forgetting Janet tore her father up on a disstrack 🫣

Happy 80th birthday to the legendary Cher.

She really pressed record on her phone, said "nggas give me heebie jeebies", ended the recording & pressed post 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

All That Matters ft. @leonthomas & @AzChike album this friday 🩵

Happy 78th birthday to Grace Jones!

2026/5/19 sm_actist IG Jung Yunho (@yunho2154) has won the Best New Male Actor award at the 24th Director's Cut Awards 🏆 "I will become actor Jung Yunho who acts sincerely and moves people's hearts." #JungYunho #lowlife #Beolgu instagram.com/reel/DYhTK0EBn…

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