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Calling Professional Black Girls Everywhere! Ready for a Road Trip?
“Professional Black Girl is, like, my favorite thing that I didn’t plan to do.” Dr. Yaba Blay is talking about her self-produced sleeper-hit video series, Professional Black Girl, which quietly rocked our worlds when it debuted in fall 2016. The 14-episode first season was an exploration of what Blay calls “black-girl culture”—in all its regular,…
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#RedCarpetRoundup: The Stars Came Out to Shine at the 2018 NAACP Awards
Don’t you just love us? On Monday night, #BlackExcellence was out in full force at the 49th annual NAACP Image Awards, and our best and brightest stars did not come to play. They came to werk. We don’t know if you watched, but we do know that our Glow Up gang loves a good red-carpet…
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From Anecdote to Endorsement: Tiffany Haddish Is Playing the Super Bowl With Groupon
She ready! In addition to her star turn in last summer’s runaway hit Girls Trip, comedian Tiffany Haddish won the adoration of millions with her now viral appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in July. During her visit, she hilariously recounted taking Will and Jada Pinkett Smith on a swamp tour in New Orleans, using tickets…
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Grown Women, This Young Queen Is Here to Remind Us We Can Do Whatever We Want
If you’ve ever caught an episode of Spike TV’s Lip Sync Battle, you know it can be addictive. Based on a recurring segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, it premieres its fourth season Jan. 18. There’s something about watching celebrities get silly for the sake of a song that makes for irresistible entertainment.…
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Dressing Coretta: We Honor the Woman Who Helped Mold a Movement as Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Revisits Selma
In the 50th year since his assassination in 1968, much has and will be said about Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader and icon whose legacy of nonviolent resistance inspired the world—while compelling some to distort and dilute his message of activism. But Coretta Scott King, the great woman consistently behind and beside…
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Remembering a Pioneer: Civil Rights Attorney and Activist Frankie Muse Freeman Dies at 101
She was a fearless fighter for our freedom, and one of the first of her kind: She was Frankie Muse Freeman, a brilliant civil rights attorney, activist and icon. She died Friday, Jan. 12, at the age of 101. Born in segregated Virginia in 1916, Freeman was raised in a college-educated family, ultimately attending Hampton…
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#RedCarpetRoundup: Color Made a Comeback at the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards
Spring is coming! We know, we know … we’re still a long way off, but with the dark and gray days outside, we could use use a little pick-me-up. Cue the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards on Thursday night in Santa Monica, Calif., fresh on the heels of Sunday’s Golden Globes, which kicked off awards season.…
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Just Fine: Mary J. Blige Looks Like She’s Living Her Best Life, and We Love It
She may consider herself “just Mary,” but liberation is looking really good on Mary J. Blige. Riding high on a wave of supporting actress nominations for Mudbound—including two Golden Globe nods and one from the Screen Actors Guild (with the Oscar nominations still pending)—the songstress and actress also celebrated her birthday Jan. 11 at the…
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#BlackGirlMagic on Ice: Black Girls Rock on Skates, Too
Each day I live, I want to beA day to give the best of me.I’m only one, but not aloneMy finest day is yet unknown … “One Moment in Time” was the official theme song of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics in South Korea, memorably sung by the incredible Whitney Houston. At last week’s 2018…
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How to Get Away With Murdering the Red Carpet: We Still Haven’t Gotten Over Viola Davis at the Golden Globes
We seriously thought the 2018 Golden Globes would be no biggie; a whole gang of black outfits on not enough black people? Easy peasy. And then Viola Davis happened, and worlds were ROCKED. For years now, she’s been teasing us on the red carpet, occasionally giving us amazing natural-hair moments that make us wonder why…
