A record number of African American women graduated from the prestigious West Point military academy on Saturday: Of the 200 female cadets graduating, 34 were black—and they’re part of making the class of 2019 the most diverse class in the mostly white, mostly male, military academy’s 217-year history. “I just showed myself and those who…
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Can you think of anyone you’d rather talk to about friendship than the cast of The Bold Type? Me neither, which is why I spoke with the holy trinity of BFFs themselves—Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee and Meghann Fahy—about just that during a recent visit to the set of the Freeform show, which returns tonight. The…
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The female hero is evolving rapidly, or maybe she just can’t be pigeonholed anymore. Whatever the case, it took long enough. Action movies with female leads, especially in the superhero subgenre, have certainly been few and far between compared with the slew of male-fronted films. Despite that, movies like Kill Bill, Foxy Brown, and Lara…
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The trailer for Olivia Wilde‘s directorial debut is here, and it will give you major Superbad vibes. Don’t get it twisted, though. It’s a hilarious, wildly original movie all its own. Titled Booksmart, the flick centers on two high school seniors, Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein, who played Julie in Lady Bird), who…
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Serena Williams—and the U.S. women’s soccer team—isn’t here for the pay gap. On Friday, the tennis icon called the pay gap in sports “ludicrous” while sharing her support for the team and its lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. “The pay discrepancy is ludicrous,” Williams, a 23-time grand slam singles champion, told reporters during a…
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Virginia Woolf. Toni Morrison. Judy Blume. Maya Angelou. Harper Lee. The influence women writers have had on our culture is immeasurable. They’ve brought us The Handmaid’s Tale, Big Little Lies, even Harry Potter. So to whittle down to just one all-time favorite book written by a female author is nearly an impossible task. But in…
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