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Meghan Markle, Style Icon? The Duchess Is the 1st Royal Nominated for a Teen Choice Award
If there’s one thing we know about Meghan Markle, it’s that she’s #StyleGoals. Meghan is new to the royal game, but her style has been creating lots of buzz (including around our office, where reviews are mixed but optimistic). One would have thought that by now a royal would have been nominated for a Teen…
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Cardi B Is a Bartier Bride and Kept It a Secret: Update
Apparently, rap couple Cardi B and Offset were secretly married last year! After doing some digging, TMZ found a Sept. 20, 2017, marriage certificate (pdf) from Fulton County, Ga., for the rappers. At the 2018 BET Awards on Sunday, Offset and the other Migos came onstage to accept their award for Best Group. In the…
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Michelle Alexander Joins the New York Times Opinion Pages as Full-Time Columnist
Michelle Alexander, author of the best-selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, will become a columnist for the New York Times Opinion pages, the Times announced Thursday. The book has captured and still captures national attention, won the NAACP’s Image Award for Outstanding Nonfiction in 2011 and was a…
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For the Culture: Celebs Stepped Out to Support Virgil Abloh’s Debut at Louis Vuitton
In March, Virgil Abloh made headlines when he was announced as the new artistic director of menswear for Louis Vuitton, becoming the first African American to hold the position. (Might I add, we’re still shook and inspired by that.) Today, Thursday, Abloh debuted his first collection for Louis Vuitton Men. As he walked the runway…
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Black Panther Display Coming to National Museum of African American History and Culture
The blackest Marvel movie is making its way to America’s blackest museum. Objects from Marvel’s Black Panther will be coming to Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in a new exhibit celebrating the studio’s blockbuster movie. The objects that will be on display in the museum include “the…
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Hooray for Nollywood! Nigerian Celebrities Slayed the Ocean’s 8 Lagos Premiere
Naija! On Monday night in Lagos, Nigeria, “Nollywood” celebrities showed up and showed out for the Ocean’s 8 Nigerian premiere. The stars pulled up to the Filmhouse Imax Cinema in Met Gala-themed attire, correlating with the film’s plot, in which the all-female cast attempts to steal jewels while attending the gala. The annual event, dubbed…
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McKinney, Texas, Girl Who Was Slammed to the Ground by Police at a Pool Party in 2015 Wins Settlement
Remember the teenage girl who got dragged by police at a pool party? Well, she’s getting her money and her own pool party. Dajerria Becton, who was 15 years old at the time, back in 2015, was last seen in a viral video getting wrestled to the ground by then-McKinney, Texas, Police Officer Eric Casebolt.…
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Born This Way, Baby! Jackie Aina’s Too Faced Foundation Collaboration Has a Launch Date!
Beauty influencer and The Glow Up fave Jackie Aina has continually expressed the need for inclusiveness in the beauty community. With that in mind, at her 30th birthday celebration last year, Aina announced that she’d be working with cosmetics brand Too Faced to expand its popular Born This Way foundation range. Both the brand and…
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Charlamagne tha God to Have New Series on HBO
Charlamagne tha God is bringing his controversial questions and topics to HBO. According to Deadline, HBO has ordered The Gray Area With Charlamagne tha God. The series will include four interview specials to premiere later this year. Not much has been shared about the series, including the interviewees, but the hourlong specials will surely grab…
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Glamour Magazine’s College Women of Year Make It Clear: We Should All Be Fighting for Change
This generation is filled with young women willing to fight for change. (Because seriously, who else is going to fight for us?) Case in point: Ten women from Glamour Magazine’s 2018 College Women of the Year participated in a Q&A with Glamour on everything from “activism, #MeToo and calling b.s. on perfection.” Here are the…
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