Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The play, “The Cotillion,” sketches the dichotomy of being a Black woman—possessing Black pride and a sense of self, while battling branches of white ...

Debutante balls have traditionally been associated with a particular kind of coming of age: that of teen girls who are well-to-do and, for the most part, white. A newly revived Black debutante ball in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian and founder of the Shorefront Legacy Center Dino Robinson gathered a group of Black cotillion debutantes for an event at ...

The movie premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. A new documentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, celebrates the beauty of Black girlhood through the age-old cotillion experience. The ...

A powerful new documentary, “The Debutantes,” premiered today, May 1, on Comcast’s Black Experience on Xfinity and Xumo Play. Directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Contessa Gayles (Songs from the Hole) ...

Historian and founder of the Shorefront Legacy Center Dino Robinson gathered a group of Black cotillion debutantes for an event at the Evanston Main Library on Jan. 27 to celebrate the history of the ...