Maiysha Kai's posts

The opening lines of one of Lucille Clifton’s best-known poems read: “Won’t you celebrate with me, what I have…

Triumph amid tragedy is always bittersweet—a unique type of survivor’s guilt many of us have become all too familiar…

If you thought the recent surge in support for Black talent in the fashion industry was a result of the black boxes…

She was a member of the 2018 class of The Root 100, and now, photographer Deana Lawson is the winner of the Hugo…

If, like me, you are currently gazing out of the window listlessly, trying to soak up whatever gray, rainy daylight…

In the lexicon of “boy-meets-girl” romances, there is one love rarely explored: our love of shoes (foot fetishes…

Valerie Jarrett was one of the most trusted advisers in President Obama’s administration, and in the years since,…

Should Kamala Devi Harris be elected vice president in two weeks, she will have achieved several simultaneous…

They were the breakout star of FX’s much-beloved (and now, much-missed) Pose, and now Indya Moore is breaking even…

The widely beloved Tracee Ellis Ross has many identities: award-winning actress, director and producer, activist, bea…

You hear that? That’s the pitter-patter of Ivy Park-loving feet rushing to line up for the next drop of merch from…

Fashion may be fueled by trends, but Naomi Campbell has never gone out of style. The supermodel shifted the paradigm…

There is the multiverse, and then, there are the multi-versed; award-winning poet, playwright, author, editor, and…

Is it just me, or is Converse having a moment? Just last month, we were waxing poetic about the brand’s back-to-back…

It’s been two years since we first caught wind of Qai Qai—the “granddaughter” of Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian…

It’s October, right? Frankly, we’re not entirely sure, at this point; the days are shorter, the darkness both…

A mayor, a legal titan and Hollywood royalty—Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, NAACP Legal Defense Fund president…

It seems like just yesterday that Ms. Tina Knowles Lawson was giving us details on how she’d been staying productive…

My dad emailed me about a week ago, with a barrage of questions: “Did you watch Saturday Night Live? Did you see the…

She may have come into our consciousness as the costume and fashion-designing, hairstyling matriarch of the…