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About a Boy, a Bey and a Devil Who Wears Prada: What's Really Good With Vogue's September Issue?
They can’t let us have anything. In tandem with the debut of Beyoncé’s historic September 2018 Vogue cover, an expected flurry of scrutinizing think-pieces have ensued—along with a very uncomfortable debate over the relevance of Beyoncé’s cover story, and who’s entitled to claim credit for Vogue booking their first black photographer to shoot the cover…
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Money Moves: Cardi B and Offset Are Already Planning Kulture Kiari's Possible Retail Empire
Looks like rap royalty Cardi B and husband Offset are already planning for their little princess to be a future mogul; according to documents obtained by The Blast, the new parents recently filed to trademark their 1-month-old daughter’s name. Submitting the paperwork on August 2 under one of Offset’s companies, Sallie Smith, LLC, the couple…
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#WCW: Serena Williams Just Got Real—and Relatable—About Postpartum Emotional Fallout
She may be the greatest athlete of all time (fight me), but Serena Williams recently admitted that despite daughter Alexis Olympia being the center of her universe, she’s not always confident that she’s the greatest mom. In a confessional post on Tuesday, Williams got real about the effects of postpartum hormones, telling her followers: Last week…
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Lyft x Black Girls Code: How a Strategic Alliance Is Driving the Conversation on Equal Pay Forward
As we focus on the disturbing disparities that make it necessary to recognize Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, there’s an especially sobering statistic that stands out: in addition to the fact that a black woman currently has to work seven months and seven days more than a white man to earn the same salary, that…
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Having Our Say and Reclaiming Our Time: What Social Media Has to Say About Black Women's Equal Pay Day
As part of the recognition of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 2018, a social media storm is planned for 2 p.m. EDT today, August 7. But in advance of us breaking the internet raising our voices in protest of this deeply intersectional inequality, The Glow Up—which is for, by and about black women—thought we’d take…
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#38PercentCounts: It's Black Women's Equal Pay Day—and What You Don't Know Might Hurt Us
Do you know what today is? It’s Tuesday, August 7; 219 days from the start of 2018. Today is also Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, the date that signifies how much longer black women had to work into 2018 to equal what white men earned in 2017. And in case you’re wondering, it’s been a…
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This Might Just Be the Blackest Season in Fashion. Do You Want It to Be the Beginning, or the Trend?
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a black face on the cover of almost every Fall Fashion issue this year? It is only the sixth day of August, and already, I’ve counted eight—no, nine—major fashion magazine covers featuring black talent, including Vogue, British Vogue, W, British and Canadian Elle, Harper’s Bazaar…
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She Ain't Sorry: Beyoncé Gets Revealing and Reflective for Vogue's September Issue
Stop debating who wore the flower crown first—or best—and focus, y’all: Beyoncé just made having a FUPA fashionable. Okay, maybe not fashionable, but entirely normal and acceptable—especially post-baby (or three). It’s just one of many revelations the star makes in Vogue’s September issue, which was famously shot by 23-year-old black photographer Tyler Mitchell—the first in…
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Birthday Bargain? Meghan Markle Wore Something (Semi) Affordable for Her 1st Birthday as Duchess
Saturday, August 4 was a great day to have a birthday; just ask our former forever president Barack Obama, The Root’s deputy editor Yesha Callahan, or the newly crowned Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, who celebrated her 37th birthday at the wedding of one of her new husband’s besties, Charlie van Straubenzee, in Surrey, England.…
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'Got You Sis': Why Rihanna Is Basically the Best Boss Ever
There’s a lot to love about Rihanna: model and muse Slick Woods says she reminds her of her mother, while Drake famously claimed to have been in love with her since age 22 (and still can’t seem to stop referencing her). But one of Rih’s most lovable qualities is that she’s an unabashed boss, which…
