These kids cannot say shit to me 🎤 ⬇️

Great idea! But also, we can't leave this up to kids. What's the plan for us? We probably should also encourage signed artists to take a sabbatical right now too. Take a strike or only share the music/content in black owned or explicitly supportive platforms.

They need to create a fund that folks can donate to and these athletes can access instead of asking them to bear the brunt of the action alone.

Find your polling place at IWillVote.com and get out to vote for Democrats up and down the ballot. Polls are open until 7pm.

Samantha! 🥹 #BeyondTheGates

I appreciate June treating Ms. Anita as the diva she is #BeyondTheGates

These headlines illustrate the state of our media in a nutshell. The NYT continues to disappoint.

Why is Smitty covering the plasma ring story again? Have their been plasma shortages? ##BeyondTheGates

What accent is this Rashad? You didn't have this when the undercover job started? ##BeyondTheGates

Sigh. Of course we get Eva and her stank face #BeyondTheGates

It's Cotillion week! #BeyondTheGates

Is this the news that fried the servers?

Can we talk now about how Abby Phillips is a puppet on her own show?

Academy winning director and jury member Chloe Zhao, wears Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2026 on the red carpet of 'Paper Tiger' directed movie, at #Cannes

My favorite look of hers during the festival.

Aretha Franklin released 'Yeah!!!' 61 years ago on May 17, 1965 | Discover where it ranks in our Queen of Soul readers' poll here: album.ink/ArethaPoll

Britney Spears released ‘Oops!… I Did It Again’ 26 years ago on May 16, 2000 album.ink/BSoops

Prince and The Revolution released "When Doves Cry" as the lead single from 'Purple Rain' 42 years ago on May 16, 1984 | Watch the official video, listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/PrincePR

Washington did EVERYTHING it possibly could to give away that game against the Fever. They still win it (survive?) 104-102 in OT. Sonia Citron 30-ball to boot. She gets the GIF treatment.

This bit of skin gives she just broke up a fight in the hallway.

2. Is 'the Dems' short for SCOTUS now? See last post.

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Durand is right. More people should sing background for others. Even Whitney and MJ did it!

RESPECT ARTISTS.

Mariah Carey released "Vision of Love" as the first single from her eponymous debut album 'Mariah Carey' 36 years ago on May 15, 1990 | Watch the official video, listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/mariahcareyMC

I thought Joey had a kid he was estranged from? #BeyondTheGates

Where's Kat? Where's Chelsea? I would take "Aunt Eva" - someone needs to take Franchesa down #BeyondTheGates

Sigh. Mona is a bird. #BeyondTheGates

Clarence Carter, a Southern soul hitmaker in the '60s and '70s, has passed away at 90

my super spicy hot take is that i do not care about the wealthy being at the met gala. i would rather they be at the met gala and doing their "philanthropy" things than dabbling in elections, defense contracts, international affairs, right wing indoctrination, and monopolizing media. that's just me.

NBC News’ Tom Costello saw someone speed past him on the Beltway at about 100 mph and slam into a barrier. He, an orthopedic surgeon and a nurse helped rescue the teen inside the car before it burst into flames.

New Orleans, Philly, Chicago, and DC

Okay so we did the “which city do you have beef with.” So I want to know, which city do you feel a KINSHIP with, even if there’s no reason? I have 3: Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia.

Can Ms. Darlene come back and cuss out Leslie? #BeyondTheGates

This is when they should have deployed Naomi and Jacob's pregnancy scare. #BeyondTheGates

Demi Moore has arrived to the at 79th #Cannes Film festival.

Just let us type it in!

PCOS is being renamed to PMOS. (Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome) The change comes from experts that say the old name was misleading, stating that it inaccurately suggested ovarian cysts as a defining feature.

PLEASE GO SEE THE LADY!

They would have to create new words describing how intolerable I would be in sports conversations after this.

1) What about the MNBA stars who attended? 2) The MET Gala is an established fundraiser for the arts. To call it the "Bezos ball" gives them more weight than they deserve.

Pizza Hut is doing their bookit program again. They can get a free personal pizza (max 5 in a month) during the summer. So if you need help pushing your kids to read you can't go wrong with pizza www.bookitprogram.com

Off the Wall The Lady in My Life Another Part of Me

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IndyCar stopped selling a T-shirt promoting this summer’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix in D.C. after facing online backlash. The shirt said “one nation" and one race."

Come on, grown folks on the cover!

there are sooooo many

Per @destinationdc.bsky.social, 27.2 million people visited D.C. in 2025, about 20,000 more than in 2024. The number of international visitors, though, dropped by four percent. Generally speaking, international visitors spend more money when they come to D.C.

Just In: Ted Turner, the media tycoon, entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded CNN and revolutionized cable TV, died at 87.

Family Heritage Experience “Patriots of Color” exhibition🫶🏾