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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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Fenty Body Lava: Love It or Leave It?
So, have you tried it yet? We’re assuming someone has, since Fenty Beauty’s newest release, Body Lava Body Luminizer, was sold out in both shades at our local Sephoras. (Y’all greedy.) But since sundress season won’t wait (whenever it finally arrives), we had to turn to the ever reliable—and reliably entertaining—Jackie Aina to give us…
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It Must Be the Shoes: Super Heroic Can Bring Out the Hero in Every Kid
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a shoe! Rarely do the words “innovative” and “adorable” occupy the same space, but we just learned about something that is both: New children’s shoe line Super Heroic has arrived to save the day—or, in this case, save the play. Five years ago, Chicagoan Jason Mayden was a…
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We Got the ‘Pynk’: Janelle Monáe’s Got Girl Power on Lock
Just when Drake thought he’d written the #GirlPower anthem of the season, here comes Janelle Monáe to remind us of the power of the … pynk. With “Pynk,” the latest single from her upcoming release, Dirty Computer (due out April 27), Monáe builds on the momentum of February’s “Make Me Feel” with another Prince-tinged melody…
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Cardi B Keeps It Refreshingly Real (as Always) for GQ
We may well be living in the “Cult of Cardi B.” Is there any other way to explain the meteoric rise of Belcalis Almanzar? With her self-professed “broken English,” shameless hustle and streetwise wit, she has continued to work her way into our hearts—while skyrocketing to the top of the charts. The reality-turned-rap star already…
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Spring Makeup? It’s Handled: Kerry Washington Curates New Palettes for Neutrogena
Here’s a not-so-Scandal-ous approach to easy spring makeup: Longtime Neutrogena campaign star Kerry Washington has applied her ever tasteful eye to a pair of spring palettes for the dermatologist-recommended brand. Offering five neutral, smudge-proof shades for eyes with a promise to last up to 12 hours (thanks to built-in primer) and three shades for freshly flushed…
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Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive Is Making Fashion More Accessible
When you got dressed this morning, how much thought did you put into it? No, I don’t mean picking an outfit; I mean, how much thought and effort did you have to exert actually putting on your clothes? For 1 in 5 Americans living with a disability, getting dressed each day is just another challenge…
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The Power of a Woman: Tarana Burke Covers Variety Magazine
It seems like only yesterday we were talking about the incredible Tarana Burke. Oh, wait; it was just yesterday: And wasn’t it just a couple of weeks ago that The Glow Up was raving about the #MeToo movement founder’s first magazine cover for Hannah Magazine? Yeah, that rings a bell … So when news broke…
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Equal Pay Day: Will Women Ever Catch Up?
Well, that only took about 100 days. That’s right, kids: It’s Equal Pay Day 2018, otherwise known as the day women’s collective earnings catch up with men’s earnings from the previous year. Despite being signed 55 years ago, the Equal Pay Act is still wholly unenforced throughout the U.S., with women only making 80 cents…
