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Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Hit With $10 Million Suit Over Use of Islamic Hadith
The use of the sacred text prompted backlash from the Muslim community after the 2020 broadcast. Now, an affiliated artist claims she received death threats.
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The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Revisits In Search of The Color Purple
Nearly 40 years after Alice Walker’s seminal work sparked controversy, we revisit our conversation about the pivotal novel with scholar Salamishah Tillet.
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Megan Thee Stallion Wants You to Wear White After Labor Day
The platinum-selling artist goes platinum blonde as alter ego ‘Tina Snow’ for the September/October cover of Essence magazine.
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Ivy Park Comes for the Children’s Market—With Cameos From the Carter Kids
The Bey-Yee-Haw Agenda continues as Blue, Sir and Rumi all appear in the first campaign for Ivy Park Rodeo Kids.
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BRB, I’m About to Go Live Vicariously Through the Women Who Will Be Making $10K a Month to Work in Wine
Murphy-Goode Winery’s ‘A Really Goode Job’ contest reportedly started as a stunt. 7,000 entries later, two women have wine lovers buzzing about the opportunity.
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Watch: How Gwen Jimmere Made a Naturalicious a Mud-Based Movement
The beauty entrepreneur has taken an unconventional approach to hair and skincare by convincing a cult following to play in the mud.
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How Beyzaar: Beyoncé Covers the 2021 Harper’s Bazaar Icons Issue
Ahead of her 40th birthday, the icon grants a rare and retrospective interview for Bazaar’s September issue.
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What Should a Woman Smell Like? According to Rihanna, ‘However TF They Want to Feel’
As Rih’s first fragrance for Fenty hits shelves, the ever-provocative star claps back at gender norms.
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Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Allegations Cause Turmoil for Leadership of Time’s Up and the Human Rights Campaign [Updated]
Board co-chair Roberta Kaplan steps down after advising Cuomo’s staff; HRC President Alphonso David now under internal investigation for similar involvement.
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Barbie Released a Line Celebrating Global COVID-19 Heroes—but We Feel Like Someone’s Missing
The line of six one-of-a-kind dolls honors women working in all aspects of the fight against the coronavirus, but Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett wasn’t among them.
