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) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CANTON − A documentary film following a group of Black teen girls in Canton as they prepare to make their entrance into society is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Debutante balls have traditionally been associated with a particular kind of coming of age: that of teen girls who are well-to-do ...

*Now streaming on Comcast’s Black Experience on Xfinity, “The Debutantes,” executive produced by Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph of “Abbott Elementary,” tells the story of an ...

Miranda Barnes' "Social Season" is drawing renewed attention to the beauty, elegance, and cultural legacy of Black debutante balls.

Award-winning filmmaker and Emmy-nominated producer Contessa Gayles has built her career telling stories about identity, movement and Black liberation. Her latest documentary, “The Debutantes,” ...

The film’s debutantes didn’t accept every tradition without question. Dedra and Taylor, in particular, challenged some of the patriarchal structures baked into the cotillion process. One of the film’s ...

IF SHE GETS ELECTED. WE’RE BACK NOW AT 1124. RIGHT NOW YOU JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF WEEKS LEFT TO NOMINATE SOMEONE FOR THE 51ST ANNUAL DEBUTANTE COTILLION IN MILWAUKEE. JOINING ME NOW ARE EKEOMA BOOZER, ...

CANTON − A documentary film following a group of Black teen girls in Canton as they prepare to make their entrance into society is available for viewing via streaming services. "The Debutantes" — ...

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 ...