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'I Am What I Am': In Concert and Conversation, Audra McDonald Pulls Back the Curtain on a Brilliant Career
When you get an opportunity to see Audra McDonald perform, you take it. The record-breaking six-time Tony Award winner, Grammy and Emmy winner and 2015 National Medal of Arts recipient has conquered both stage and screen with her acting and singing and is lauded across the globe as one of the brightest lights of Broadway.…
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Memoir of NYFW: The Best Moments of NYFW Were the Blackest—but Unfortunately, Our Invites Got Lost in the Mail
As the most recent New York Fashion Week wound down last week, several members of our team here at The Root found ourselves at perhaps the hottest party of the week. In fact, it was figuratively and literally the hottest, as legendary burlesque venue The Box was surprisingly short on air conditioning as it hosted…
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Who Won NYFW? Well, Rihanna, Obviously
Is she or isn’t she? That was the question consuming Black Twitter after images and video from Rihanna’s 5th annual Diamond Ball surfaced, raising speculation that her delayed ninth album might be due to another, far more important project currently in production… Read into her cryptic, yet on-point statement—or the conspicuously clingy black velvet cocktail…
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The Hardest Working Woman in Hair: The Glow Up Joins Celebrity Stylist Ursula Stephen on Her NYFW Grind
If you think about some of the most innovative, gorgeous hair looks of your favorite celebrities, there’s a solid chance Ursula Stephen’s hands were involved. The star stylist is the talent behind any number of Rihanna’s most iconic and shape-shifting looks, and, in recent years, has helped create the same chameleon-like persona for Zendaya, in…
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Because She’s Worth It: Viola Davis Is the Newest Face of L'Oréal
Among the demographics celebrated by the beauty industry, darker-skinned and older women have historically been ignored. While the marginalization of darker skin has been dramatically shifting in recent years (thanks to Fenty Beauty, among others), the industry has been significantly slower to embrace aging as a facet of beauty. But as both the fashion and…
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'Wherever You Came From, Don’t Fear It': Pyer Moss Had a Full Circle Moment at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre
“I thought you had to be a rapper to make clothes,” Kerby Jean-Raymond told Business of Fashion Sunday night after his latest runway presentation, staged at the Kings Theatre in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The designer went on to share that he used to work across the street from the historic theater, renovated and reopened in…
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Never Forget: During Fashion’s Biggest Week, Pose’s Indya Moore and Angelica Ross Urge Us to Remember Trans Lives
Seventeen women accompanied Indya Moore to the stage of the Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards last Thursday night. As reported by the Cut, the activist, model and co-star of FX’s Pose (who prefers they/them pronouns) was being honored with the evening’s Cover of the Year award for Elle magazine’s June 2019 cover—the first transgender…
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'It Should Cost You Something': Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Sets the Record Straight on Slave Play as It Debuts on Broadway
Black art rarely emerges without controversy. Our creations are inherently political, specifically because this country never intended for them to exist in the first place. In fact, 400 years after the start of the transatlantic slave trade, our trauma is still so present, many of us would prefer to distance ourselves from that history altogether.…
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Dream Come True: The Knot and Kleinfeld Teamed Up at The CurvyCon 2019 to Ensure All Brides Feel the Love
Here’s a fact that threatens the fairytale wedding: Of the multitude of brides who shop for a wedding dress, 50 percent will feel self-conscious doing so, as bridal shops often neglect to stock dresses above a size 8. That was the grim experience of CurvyCon co-founder Chastity Garner-Valentine, which she shared with attendees at this…
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Showtime at the Apollo: Tommy Hilfiger x Zendaya Took Over Harlem for New York Fashion Week
The mood? Swag. The clothes? Swank. The location? Uptown, baby, as Zendaya and Tommy Hilfiger transformed Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater into their own personal block party for their second collection together since the star became the brand’s global ambassador last fall. Building on the disco fever the collaboration’s debut set off in Paris this spring,…
