Black Beauty With Photographer Adrienne Raquel

Sometimes a Cigar Is a Just a Cigar In the first column of our new Philosophy of Pleasure series, New York Times best-selling author Mychal Denzel Smith writes on the complexity and simplicity one can find in a long drag of a cigar

20Q: Kehlani In the lead-up to her new release, the soul-baring singer opens up to Playboy about playing with gender, finding new joy in songwriting, and how “being a mom is the sexiest thing ever.”

A World Without Police Is a Safer One The Democratic backlash against “defund the police” rhetoric shows the power of white anxiety