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Flawless or Forgery? Did Bey and Jay’s Homage to the Louvre ‘Borrow’ From This Black-Owned Label?
Angelic iconography. The streets of Paris. Baroque architecture. The halls of the Louvre Museum, lined with French and Italian masterworks and iconic Greek and Egyptian sculptures that date well before Christ. The murals that adorn the ornately gilded ceilings of the museum’s Galerie d’Apollon (the Apollo gallery) … The first single and video from the…
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Get in the Spirit: Celebrating 60 Years of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Ailey Spirit Gala
Legends gathered at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday night to attend the 2018 Ailey Spirit Gala celebrating the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, now in its 60th year. Cicely Tyson, Carmen de Lavallade, honorary chair Jussie Smollett and more were in attendance as the company kicked off the spring season with…
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Chloe x Halle Cover Teen Vogue and Take Us through the Playlist of Their Lives (and Ours)
It’s fun proving people wrong. Even with our music, early on when we were even much younger, people sometimes said our music should be more simple, more digestible, but my sister and I, we just pushed through together and we’re like, “Bam. We’re gonna do what we want to do.” — Chloe Bailey Chloe and…
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A Little Piece of Light: With a New Memoir, Donna Hylton Proves There Is Life After Prison
Dear Kim Kardashian West, My name is Donna Hylton. I am a mother who served 27 years in prison, including years in solitary confinement. I am an author and leader for social justice and an advocate for women and criminal-justice reform. You clearly had a successful meeting with the president at the White House to…
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What’s Wrong With This Picture? Critics of Nicki Minaj’s Latest Elle Shoot Cry Colorism
When news broke that Nicki Minaj was covering July’s issue of Elle magazine, photographed by Chanel head of house Karl Lagerfeld, all fashion-loving (and Nicki-loving) eyes instantly turned to the internet to see what provocative imagery the rap star would be serving this time around. But as it turns out, the most-talked-about picture in the…
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Sink or Swim? A Former Miss America Contestant Weighs In on the End of the Swimsuit Competition
When we heard the announcement last Tuesday that, after years of criticism, the Miss America Organization had decided to abandon its controversial swimsuit competition, we wondered if it might be a case of “too little, too late” in the pageant’s attempt to appeal to a new era of feminism. “We are no longer a pageant,”…
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Royal Reveal: Racy Footage of Meghan Markle to Be Used to Dispute Kate Middleton Topless Lawsuit
When Meghan Markle stripped down while grilling hamburgers in a 2013 video for American magazine Men’s Health, she was a star on a new hit show who’d yet to meet the man who would invite her into the British royal family as his bride. However, that didn’t stop French tabloid Closer from using footage of…
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‘The Queen Reclaims Her Throne’? Nicki Minaj Covers July’s Elle Magazine
Let’s be real: All you bitches wanna look like meWanna be in demand, get booked like meWanna run up in the lab and cook like me Honestly? As flawless as Nicki Minaj looks on the cover of July’s Elle magazine, we think she’s answered her own lyrical question. The megastar rapper, returning from a four-year…
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Aaliyah for MAC: Is the New Collection ‘One in a Million,’ or Should They ‘Try Again’?
Curious about MAC’s new Aaliyah tribute collection? In the past few days, several previews have hit the YouTube-verse, giving us the real on what to expect from this highly anticipated launch. Created in collaboration with the late singer’s older brother, Rashad Haughton, Aaliyah for MAC will be available online June 20 and hit MAC stores…
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Beyoncé, Behind the Scenes: That Bridal Gown, #BodyGoals and Bootylicious New Pics of Queen Bey
Was it fact or fiction? Did Jay-Z and Beyoncé renew their vows, as filmed footage from their On the Run II Tour suggests? In a blink-and-you-might-miss-it clip, we see the Carters clearly in wedding mode, as their twins (or stand-ins for their twins) are nearby. Of course, all eyes were on the gown, which Glamour…