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Cardi Literally Secures the Bags as Offset’s Comeback Campaign Continues
Can you place a dollar amount on trust? If so, Offset may be well on his way to winning Cardi B back with his holiday spending spree, which reportedly included jewelry, Christian Louboutins, multiple items from Chanel and several of Hermès’ coveted Birkin bags. The items were cataloged in a now-deleted Instagram post by Cardi, in…
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She Slayed: The Glow Up’s Best Dressed Women of 2018
To say this last year has been a challenging one would be an understatement, but there were some significant bright spots—namely, on the bodies of some of our most famous women. From awards season to the Met Gala and beyond, there were plenty of memorable moments. As is our custom, we have to applaud those…
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Celebrating, Celebrity-Style: What Did the Famous Do This Christmas?
So…assuming you celebrate, what did you do for Christmas? Was it filled with family and food, celebrated with your chosen “framily,” or spent binge-watching and bingeing on Chinese food *raises hand*? Whatever your holiday looked like this year, we hope it was everything you wished it to be, because ‘tis the season to do whatever…
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Local Color: Your Museum-Worthy Guide to Getting Cultured Over the Holidays
So, maybe you’re back home for the holidays—or maybe you’re hosting this year. Maybe you’re spending the break blessedly solo. No matter the specifics, you’ve hopefully got some long overdue downtime coming your way over the final days of 2018. But how many rounds of leftovers, good-natured (we hope) family feuds, epic sleep-ins and Hallmark…
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Y'all Haters Corny with That Colorism Mess: The Bria Myles Debate Proves Some Are Stuck in the Dark Ages
Real talk? The Glow Up doesn’t really make a habit of keeping up with the Instagram model brigade. This isn’t because they’re not beautiful or worthy of big thangs, but simply because there are too many of them for our meager staff (read: me) to keep track of, in addition to celebs, supermodels and beauty…
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Start Stretching, Fenty Fans… 10 New Mattemoiselle Singles Drop December 26!
Fenty lovers, I hope you saved a little room (and budget) for post-Christmas shopping, because Rihanna is once again coming for your coins! Fenty Beauty announced last week that it would be dropping not one, not two, but 10 new shades of its Mattesmoiselle lipstick on December 26, just in time for you to pick…
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Lookin' Like 'Money': Cardi B's New Visuals Cement Her Status as a Style Icon
2019, your “bad bitch” anthem has arrived early—with fashion forecasting, to boot. The bevy of bad bitches here at The Root all asked to start our holiday weekends early after Cardi B (finally!) dropped the video for “Money” on Friday, because we needed as much time as possible to watch it on a loop. (Seriously,…
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One Less ‘Hidden Figure’: Dr. Gladys Mae West Inducted Into the Air Force Space Hall of Fame
She wasn’t one of the “Hidden Figures” immortalized in the award-winning 2016 film, but mathematician Dr. Gladys West was nonetheless a pioneer in her field and an innovator in all our lives due to her contributions to the invention of what we now know as global positioning systems or GPS. And now, the trailblazer has…
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African, American: Danai Gurira Hits Home with Her Latest Play, Familiar
An elegantly appointed middle class living room in Minnesota, punctuated with poinsettias and a wreath to celebrate the holidays—plus the rare (and oft-disappearing) piece of African art. Frankly, it could’ve been my childhood home in the same Midwestern state, but instead, it is the setting of Danai Gurira’s Familiar, an emotional family dramedy that explores…
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About Damned Time: At 48, Naomi Campbell Scores Her 1st Beauty Campaign
She’s one of the best-known models in the world—and certainly the best-known black model. But 30 years after Naomi Campbell broke ground as the first black woman to grace the cover of French Vogue (and nearly 30 years after she became the first to cover American Vogue’s September issue in 1989) Naomi Campbell has just…
