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22 Days of Eating Like Beyoncé, Day 16: Yes, I Can Cook, Too
You know, I saw this whole thing going differently in my mind. I had visions of puttering around my kitchen every weekend, spatula in hand, hair wrapped and apron around my waist, whipping up savory vegan dishes the way I have many a Sunday roast chicken dinner or Thanksgiving feast, and turning out plates and…
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Are Forever 21's Days Numbered? The Fast-Fashion Retailer Becomes the Latest to Eye Bankruptcy
I have a justifiable dread about the state of retail stores in America, perhaps spurred on by the abandoned mall of my youth, a one-time mecca of teenage frisson overgrown with weeds and decay before finally being demolished. One of the inevitable caveats of Al Gore’s internet has been the demise of the brick-and-mortar location,…
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Post-VMAs, Rihanna and Lizzo’s Girl Crush Continues (So, We Gonna Get a Duet or Nah?)
When Lizzo managed to recruit her idol, Missy Elliott, to join her for a remix and video of her hit single “Tempo,” we thought we’d reached peak collaborative nirvana (at least, for the summer of 2019). But now, the “Truth Hurts” singer is engaged in another mutual admiration society that has us musing about what…
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22 Days of Eating Like Beyoncé, Days 14 & 15: Is This Mission Impossible?
Well, I’ve figured out why it’s been so difficult to take off the weight. Over a decade ago, when I was a freewheeling and high-earning New York City girl (with a much higher metabolism) living off of takeout four to five days a week (and leftovers the other two to three), my mother blessed me…
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Hear That? That's the Sound of Savage x Fenty Making That Coin—and Becoming an Amazon Original
How do you top a model going into labor during your first runway presentation? If you’re Rihanna, you make your intimate apparel line even more intimate, bringing the Savage x Fenty runway experience home for her fans with a new deal with Amazon, which will stream the show on Prime Video on Friday, September 20.…
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That Validation Felt Good as Hell: Lizzo Bodied the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards for All of Us
“Lemme talk to y’all for a second. I’m tired of the bullshit, and I don’t have to know your story to know that you’re tired of the bullshit, too,” Lizzo told the MTV VMAs audience on Monday night, during a blazing mashup of her hits “Truth Hurts” and “Good as Hell.” “It’s so hard trying…
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22 Days of Eating Like Beyoncé, Day 13: The Devil Must Be Dairy-Free
I want pizza. I don’t care what kind: New York-style, Chicago-style, flatbread, french bread, personal, pan, I don’t care. I just want pizza. No, let me be absolutely clear: I want pizza that doesn’t taste like cardboard slathered with tomato sauce and topped with school paste. If there is one reason my venture into veganism…
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We’re Doing the Work; Why Aren’t We Seeing the Equity? For Women’s Equality Day, Experts Weigh In
Women’s Equality Day remains a bittersweet anniversary for those of us still on the losing end of too many equality battles—including pay equity, workplace bias and even hair discrimination. And as last Thursday’s Black Women’s Equal Pay Day sadly demonstrated, increased awareness isn’t moving the needle on progress; this year’s date, which indicates the amount…
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'This Would’ve Not Happened to a White Model': Australian Magazine Messily Misidentifies Model Adut Akech
She has opened and closed runway shows for Chanel and Valentino, is on the cover of three global editions of Vogue this September alone and is considered one of the faces pushing black beauty ever forward, but Adut Akech Bior (best known in the fashion world as Adut Akech) recently suffered a major indignity on…
