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Halle Berry talks playing Storm in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" (2014) at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

How Halle Berry became my “celebrity beard” as a repressed gay Black kid in the early 2000s | Pop Queen Journal

June 19 commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., but for many, it’s also a celebration of Black history, culture, and joy. Photo courtesy of Everyday Health; Getty Images; iStock.

What Is Black Joy, and How Is It Connected to Juneteenth? | Everyday Health

Joymakers encourage others to embrace joy as both resistance and self-care. Photo courtesy of Everyday Health; iStock.

7 Black Joymakers You Need to Know | Everyday Health

Floyd Stokes is the founder and executive director of the American Literacy Corporation (ALC) established in August of 2000, and wrote all the books on the top shelf at the East Shore Library in Lower Paxton Township, Pa., Feb. 16, 2021. Mark Pynes | mpynes@pennlive.com

Pa. community leader turned reading to children into a growing movement | PennLive

How ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ reshaped drag culture | The Tylt

How ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ reshaped drag culture | The Tylt

Season 11’s Miss Congeniality, Nina West, 42, auditioned nine times to be on the show before she made it on and slayed the 2019 season. On this episode of Fiercely Fandom with Deron., host Deron Dalton has a kiki with West about the ins and outs of "RuPaul's Drag Race," how the popular show changes the lives of the queens on it and nevertheless, the challenges drag queens are facing. Photo courtesy of The Tylt.

Nina West shares her rise to ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ superstardom | The Tylt’s Fiercely Fandom with Deron.

Tylt Recs: Best Netflix geek shows

Tylt Recs: Best Netflix geek shows | The Tylt

Why are the Oscars still so darn white in 2020? | The Tylt

Why are the Oscars still so darn white in 2020? | The Tylt

The power of fan armies | The Tylt

The power of fan armies sets Tylt records | The Tylt

Which groups won the decade? | The Tylt

Which groups won the decade? | The Tylt

Who’s the Pop Icon of the Decade? | The Tylt

Favorite K-pop boy group: BTS or EXO?

Favorite K-pop boy group: BTS or EXO? | The Tylt

Who would win in an all-out brawl: Justice League or the Avengers? | The Tylt

Who would win in an all- out brawl: Justice League or the Avengers? | The Tylt

Meet Kleaver Cruz, the 27-year-old writer behind #TheBlackJoyProject on Instagram. Photos via Black Joy Project/Instagram | Remix by Jason Reed, The Daily Dot.

How the Black Joy Project is helping activists deal | The Daily Dot

How BLM’s female leadership dreams the future of the global network. Illustration by Max Fleishman, The Daily Dot.

The women of Black Lives Matter outline their path forward | The Daily Dot

An Inside look at how Black Lives Matter centers queer and trans issues. Illustration by Max Fleishman, The Daily Dot.

How 4 Black Lives Matter activists handle queerness and trans issues | The Daily Dot

About 100 people attended Rekia Boyd’s rally on Wednesday, April 22 in New York City’s Union Square. The number of those in support of the young unarmed Black woman who died at the hands of police officer Dante Servin was much lower compared to those protesting for unarmed black men like Freddie Gray, Michael Brown and Eric Garner. PHOTO BY DERON DALTON

Remember the Black women who died from police brutality | MadameNoire

Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi co-founded the Black Lives Matter Movement when George Zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. They created the hashtag, which spread like wildfire. Photo credit: Black Lives Matter.

The Three Women Behind The Black Lives Matter Movement | MadameNoire

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