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Welcome to your new Saturday morning ritual. The Knowing newsletter takes readers to the frontlines of culture. Each issue presents a weekly collection of stories that help readers make sense of the world right now.

Anticipate distilled analysis of urgent global news, profiles, and authoritative criticism across the worlds of music and Hollywood, along with expert insights and product curation in best-in-class beauty and wellness.

Cover stories are published on the first Saturday of each month. Feature stories meet readers every Saturday.

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News, culture & beauty coverage that builds a world. 100% human intelligence.

News

Coverage on issues with consequence. A news methodology that draws a clear line between reporting with hard facts and analysis that takes a side.

Culture

We bring readers to the frontlines of global Black culture. Criticism that bites and opines the world of popular culture, on Hollywood, on music, and the arts.

Sovereignty

The full range of power, choice and rest live here. The Knowing’s beauty edit is concierge. A brave new world where ease and pace is the look. And the living. Expert analysis and features on the product and players in skin, the body, mane, nails, and the beat.

Inside the Issue

Preview the edit subscribers receive every Saturday morning. Reported by the culture’s most authoritative and trusted voices.
Culture Brief

Culture Brief

What if news felt like concierge and not interruption? Come here for the unhurried POV. A thoughtfully paced news briefing with fact-based reporting, and analysis that takes a side.

Softly

Softly

The culture's beauty edit combines insights with the industry's most discerning curation to shop with trust on the ingredient and players behind the product.

Chords

Chords

Music news, criticism and playlist selections. We'll take you inside the chords and the concerts.

The Screener

The Screener

The home of Black film and TV news and criticism. First looks and deep reporting on stories in front of the lens, and creators who move Hollywood forward.

The Ballot

The Ballot

In the most consequential political era in recent memory, come here for news and insights on Washington and every corner of electoral power counting on Black America's vote.

Sanctuary

Sanctuary

Testimony and first-person narrative on women between worlds. What power and survival means for Black women today in the office and the bedroom.

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The newsletter of record on culture and beauty. Issues deliver Saturdays 7 AM ET.