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On the Run and On the Fly: Beyoncé Turns a Tour Stop Into an Impromptu Photo Shoot
How’s this for #MotivationMonday: Clearly, being on the seemingly nonstop On the Run II tour is no excuse for not keeping it fresh for the ‘gram, because Bey blessed the hive with a little on-the-go glamour this weekend, en route to her Warsaw, Poland tour stop. The queen set the scene, wearing the ruffled and…
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Virgil x Naomi: Fashion’s Biggest (and Still Blackest) Stars in Conversation for Vogue
“I’m going to see Virgil,” Naomi Campbell whispered in her famously husky British accent, en route to the Paris headquarters of Louis Vuitton for a conversation with fashion’s man of the moment, designer and disruptor Virgil Abloh. A meeting between the legendary supermodel/contributing editor of British Vogue and the innovator behind cult hit brand Off-White…
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Fighting Breast Cancer: Tuskegee University Researchers Add a 4th Marker in Breast-Cancer Detection
A research team at Tuskegee University has just made a major breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer—particularly the most aggressive and fatal form, which affects black women at a 42 percent-higher rate (pdf) than white women. As reported by Michigan Chronicle Online, the team discovered a new means of detecting early markers and prescribing…
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‘I Want You to Win’: How Pose Actress Angelica Ross Is Winning TV, Tech and Trans Activism
If, like me, you’ve become a fast devotee of the new Ryan Murphy-helmed series Pose, you’ve no doubt become familiar with the perfectly delivered one-liners of character Candy Abundance (member of the House of Abundance, of course). Episode 4, which aired last Sunday, gave us an opportunity to get to know Candy better as viewers…
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Enviable Assets: How Tracee Ellis Ross Builds the Boom
There is plenty to love about actress, director and activist Tracee Ellis Ross—she’s brilliant, hilarious, beautiful and, as previously noted, basically our best friend in our heads. But it’s impossible to ignore that Ross is also #BodyGoals. She may play a mom of five on Black-ish, but at 45, the former model is still sporting…
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Superwoman: Glow Actress Sydelle Noel Talks Black Love and Why She Should Be Our Next Action Star
Sydelle Noel has all the makings of a major female action star: She’s athletic, adventurous, has major charisma and is absolutely gorgeous. Oh, and she does all of her own stunts—as a recurring character on the television show Arrow, a Dora Milaje in Marvel’s blockbuster Black Panther and, most recognizably, as the formidable Cherry Bang…
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In Xcess: Savage x Fenty Just Released Their ‘Xccessories’
Tie me up, tie me down, but make it Savage x Fenty. After a hugely successful launch in May, Rihanna’s lingerie label is now encouraging us to “kink it up a notch” with the release of its “Xccessories” line, which includes eye masks ($18-$20), whips ($24), handcuffs ($24) and more. If this release has you…
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New Growth: Sally Beauty Wants to Help Develop the Next Big Female-Owned Hair-Care Brand
Are you a female hair-care entrepreneur? Professional beauty-supply juggernaut Sally Beauty recently launched a business-accelerator program specifically designed to help female beauty entrepreneurs grow their businesses. Sally Beauty Cultivate—For Women by Women is actively seeking out the next line of innovative hair-care products, offering one phenomenal female-owned brand entrepreneurial mentorship, $25,000 in financial support and…
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#TBT: Allure Gives Us the Tea on Cardi B’s Ever-Changing Array of Looks
Few contemporary stars switch up their looks more dramatically or with more regularity than Cardi B, who, in her very brief time in the limelight, has given us more transformations than we can count. Thankfully, we don’t have to, since Allure got Cardi’s makeup artist Erika La’Pearl to give us a retrospective rundown of many…
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‘A Bronx Fairytale’: The Bardi Baby Shower Was a Pretty-in-Pink Tribute to the Boogie Down
Leave it to Cardi B to give us an over-the-top baby shower to offset (see what I did there?) our dismay over missing her secret wedding last year. Not that we didn’t see it coming; after all, the star teased the big event in the couple’s recent interview with Rolling Stone: I want a lit…
