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  • Can We Get This Tracee Ellis Ross TED Talk, Already?

    True-confession time: This spring has yet to get me sprung. It’s likely because I’ve based myself in Northern cities, but as of yet, I’ve been uninspired by this season’s offerings—both weatherwise and in the way of a much-needed pick-me-up. The truth is, I’ve been fairly pissed off as of late, and I think I could…

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  • The Mic Is Open: Poet Dabriel Fulton Is Giving Voice to All

    If the mic were open, what would you say? For the many underground poets, singers, rappers and comedians struggling to find spaces to showcase and workshop their talents, poet, performer and community activist Dabriel Fulton has created the Mic Is Open, an inclusive and inspiring forum for those who often go unheard. Says Fulton, via…

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  • This Invasion of Privacy Manicure Exists, and We Have Questions

    Yeah, yeah … we know, we know: Can we go five minutes without focusing on Cardi B? Ask the Russia-based manicurist who decided to go full Invasion of Privacy by reinterpreting the cover of the gold-selling album as 3D nail art, complete with a swiveling head. It was an ambitious undertaking, elaborate and impressively executed,…

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  • Crazy, Sexy, Cardi: What Was Cardi B Really Saying With Her TLC-Inspired ‘Boachella’ Look?

    Did you immediately catch the reference? The asymmetrical ponytails, sideswept bangs and all-white-everything trouser-and-duster ensemble—complete with the chiffon insets? Cardi B may have opted to keep her pregnant midriff under wraps, but did her Coachella look remind you of anyone in particular? The artist formerly known as Belcalis Almanzar is clearly a skilled shape-shifter. But…

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  • Beyoncé x Balmain = Best Coachella Homecoming Ever

    What happens when the reigning prince of fashion gets a request to dress Queen Bey for her takeover of one of the most famous music festivals in the world? You get some major fashion moments to go along with all of that amazing music. Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, turned heads during Paris Fashion…

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  • ‘Bodak Yellow’ on Your Back: Cardi B x Fashion Nova Drops in October

    “Money Bag,” indeed: Cardi B continues to make money moves, riding her wave of success into multiple streams of income like a true G. This week, it was announced that—aside from Cardi’s pregnancy—we can expect another bundle of joy from the entertainer; she’s teaming up with fast-fashion fave Fashion Nova to bring us regular, degular,…

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  • The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: Cardi B’s ‘Money Bag’

    If you’re tired of Cardi B, I suggest that you avert your eyes, cover your ears, back away from the computer, and retreat to a remote and abandoned island for the foreseeable future, because at this point, it’s Cardi’s world and we’re just living in it. Case in point: This was a week full of…

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  • Watch: Feeling Insecure or Grown-ish? Go Behind the Scenes With Issa and Yara

    Just when we thought we’d stopped swooning over the double fantasy of Issa Rae and Yara Shahidi simultaneously on Marie Claire covers, the magazine blessed us with a little behind-the-scenes confessional action, revealing some of the quirks, guilty pleasures and favorite things of two of the season’s freshest talents. For instance, did you know about…

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  • Fresh Faces: Issa Rae and Yara Shahidi Cover Marie Claire’s May Issue

    Come through, Marie Claire! To coincide with the blooming of the season, Marie Claire magazine has chosen not one, but five fresh beauties to grace a series of May covers, including our forever faves Issa Rae and Yara Shahidi! Looking fresh to death and ever so fly (we want Rae’s violet lipstick now), the two…

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  • Survivor’s Remorse: On Junot Díaz and the Collateral Damage of Trauma

    I began this week in tears. Early Monday morning, hot, torrential tears were flowing as if I were in the midst of my last heartbreak—or the one before that, or the one before that. I was reading Junot Díaz’s searingly confessional essay in the New Yorker about confronting and coping with his childhood rape. Like…

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Maiysha Kai is former managing editor of The Glow Up and host of The Root Presents: It’s Lit!, and your average Grammy-nominated goddess next door. May I borrow some sugar?


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