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  • Tired of Guessing Games? Asos Is Making Online Shopping Even Easier

    Global online fashion and beauty retailer Asos has long been a fast-fashion favorite for people of all body types, reaching beyond standard sizing to offer petite, tall and plus options for both women and men (yes, even plus-sized men). As a curvier shopper, I can vouch firsthand for the appeal of a retailer that offers…

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  • Upholding the Dream: MLK’s Granddaughter Continues Her Family’s Legacy

    Yolanda Renee King, the grandchild of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, made a surprise appearance Saturday at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. The 9-year-old roused the crowd with a passionate speech that would no doubt have made her activist grandparents proud, evoking the “I Have a Dream” speech…

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  • Sunday Sermon: Jennifer Hudson Assures Us That ‘the Times They Are a-Changin’’

    It’s a powerful thing to channel your pain into positive change. On Saturday, Jennifer Hudson did just that when she took to the stage at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., to sing a soul-stirring rendition of Bob Dylan’s protest anthem “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” Backed by a multicultural local choir,…

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  • The Children Are Our Future: 11-Year-Old Naomi Wadler Asks Us to #SayHerName 

    I am here today to represent Courtlin Arrington. I am here today to represent Hadiya Pendleton. I am here today to represent Taiyania Thompson, who at just 16 was shot dead at her home in Washington, D.C. I am here to acknowledge and represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of…

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  • #SisterhoodSaturday: Yes, Chloe x Halle, The Kids Are Alright

    It’s #SisterhoodSaturday here at The Glow Up, so it’s only natural to feature one of our favorite sister-acts, Chloe x Halle (aka Chloe and Halle Bailey), whose premier album, The Kids Are Alright, debuted Friday. Frankly, it seems like just yesterday that we were watching these two as preteens, performing lushly harmonic YouTube covers of…

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  • Inclusion Is Easier Than It Looks—Just Ask Revlon  

    In 1992, our own Veronica Webb made history by becoming the first black model to land a major cosmetics contract. The brand? Revlon, which at the time was also launching ColorStyle (ColorStay’s predecessor), a line formulated for the then-neglected black consumer (I was one such consumer). Of course, these days, there’d likely be an outcry…

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  • Chanté to Shanté: Chanté Adams Channels Hip-Hop Pioneer Roxanne Shanté in Netflix’s Roxanne, Roxanne

    Chanté Adams is living a dream—one she envisioned not too long ago as a 2016 graduate of the School of Drama at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Less than two years later, the young actress is enjoying the premiere of her first film, starring as female rap prodigy and pioneer Roxanne Shanté in…

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  • A Legend’s Legacy: Jenny Lumet Remembers Life With Lena Horne

    We know that talent tends to run in families, but screenwriter Jenny Lumet’s family is pretty extraordinary, even by Hollywood standards. Her father was legendary director, screenwriter and producer Sidney Lumet, who gave us such incredible films as Dog Day Afternoon, Network and my personal all-time fave, The Wiz. Of course, one of The Wiz’s…

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  • The Breakthrough: Vanity Fair Breathes New Life with Lena Waithe on the Cover

    If you’re a follower of Hollywood, politics and society—or a journalist who covers all three—you’re likely familiar with Vanity Fair. Though first published from 1913 to 1936, the magazine as we know it today has been in print since 1983 and until recently was under the editorial direction of Graydon Carter, who took the helm…

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  • All Hail the Homegirl Intervention: Brittney Cooper Praises the Power of Black Female Friendships in Eloquent Rage

    Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part interview about Brittney Cooper’s book Eloquent Rage. Most of my best friendships have started with good conversations—I’d hazard a guess that most of yours have, too. So when I found myself in a genuinely good conversation with author and feminist scholar Brittney Cooper about her incredible…

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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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