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Thrilling x Black Owned Everything: Stylist Zerina Akers Gives Black Friday a Sustainable Remix
You may have first become familiar with Zerina Akers through her long and very successful working relationship with an up-and-coming artist named Beyoncé (or something like that). But the stylist, designer and influencer is a force of fashion in her own right, both forecasting trends and consistently sharing her growing independent platform with Black designers,…
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Rihanna, Aurora James and Cardi B Step Into Honors at Star-Studded Footwear News Achievement Awards
This year may have not been one of our most winning, but there are still achievements to celebrate; particularly the handful of designers who harnessed the energy and activism of the moment to compel substantive structural changes in the fashion industry and beyond. As The Glow Up has previously reported, Aurora James, founder of the…
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'We Need to Be Unified': LL Cool J Drops a New 'Rock The Bells' Collab With a Focus on Bridging the Divide
Just last week, we revisited the culture-shifting moment in 1999 when LL Cool J subverted retail juggernaut Gap by sporting a FUBU cap while appearing in a commercial for the brand. The moment was a gamechanger, both for the independent Black brand founded by Daymond John and for the culture, at large; a subconscious reminder…
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Serena Williams Keeps It 100 on the Challenges of Being a Black Woman in Tennis: 'There's a Double Standard in Everything We Do'
Being one of the greatest athletes in the history of professional sports comes with a tremendous degree of privilege. But at the end of the day, Serena Williams is a Black woman first. And as she explained during a recent sit down on The Kelly Clarkson Show, she hasn’t always felt like herself on the…
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'We Have to Ensure Accountability': Anita Hill to Launch an App Identifying Serial Abusers in Entertainment
Prior to being portrayed by Kerry Washington in 2016’s Confirmation (HBO), few people would’ve associated esteemed attorney and academic Anita Hill with Hollywood. Understandably, the longtime professor of women’s studies and social policy and law in Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management had largely stayed out of the spotlight after reluctantly entering…
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Wrapping Paper Roll Call: Everything's Better Together
True Confession Time: I am deeply missing my partner this holiday season. Having committed to a long-distance relationship well before the pandemic hit, the events of 2020—which have necessitated us spending far more time apart than together—presented a whole new set of challenges. So, suffice to say that those of you griping about the abundance…
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Rashida Jones Is the Next President of MSNBC News—and First Black Woman to Helm a Cable News Network
If you’ve been impressed with the amount of Black talent making it onto MSNBC’s roster as of late, prepare to be amazed. On Monday, NBC Universal announced that the news channel’s current president, Phil Griffin, will be leaving on February 1, 2021, after a 25-year tenure with the company and 12 as its president. Ascending…
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Black Doll With Braided Hair Described as 'Colored Dirty Braid Fashion' Pulled by Amazon
So… Amazon sure seems to have a difficult time making sure it isn’t used to sell products from vendors that use racist descriptions to advertise their merchandise. Recently, the company had to remove a children’s doll from its digital marketplace because some overseas company thought it was a good idea to describe a Black doll’s…
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Why Was 'Childbirth' Trending on Twitter? Because It’s Kind of a Big Deal
If you’re reading this, at some point you were born—and whether naturally, with an epidural or via cesarean section, it was indisputably a major physical event for the woman who carried you, no matter how much she may have wanted to welcome you into the world. In fact, it may have been so traumatic she…
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Valentino Must Be Euphoric: Zendaya Is the Luxury Label's Newest Ambassador
Is there a power on Earth greater than Zendaya? The obvious answer is, of course, yes. But if you watched her return to HBO’s Euphoria for the first of its two-part holiday special this weekend (shout out to Colman Domingo’s brilliant performance opposite her), you likely got the reference above. While this year hasn’t had…