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One Lucky BIPOC Designer Will Design a Banana Republic Collection, Thanks to Harlem's Fashion Row
“Black is the new black” announced Harlem’s Fashion Row (HFR) founder Brandice Daniel as the theme for this year’s annual runway event—gone virtual for 2020 on September 9. With major sponsors like Nike (among others), an ongoing partnership (and $1 million grant) from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and an upcoming collaboration set…
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Destiny's Child: Kelly Rowland Announces Her Second Pregnancy on the Cover of Women's Health
“SURPRISE!!,” Kelly Rowland posted on Instagram Wednesday morning, captioning one of her two November covers for Women’s Health—the magazine’s first-ever Music Issue—in which Rowland also proudly displays a baby bump. The now 39-year-old Rowland is already mother to son Titan, who turns six in November. As she tells the magazine, her pandemic pregnancy was at…
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She Is Legend: Style Icon June Ambrose Launches a Collaboration With Puma
There is no conversation about the intersection of hip hop, R&B and streetwear that doesn’t include legendary “style architect” June Ambrose. While the image-maker, who has counted Jay-Z, Mariah Carey and countless other celebs among her clientele, is equally well-versed in haute couture, her now decades-long mark upon street styles is indelible and always incredibly…
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American Beauties: A New Crop of Fall Cover Stars Are Young, Gifted—and Maybe Our Next Vice President?
“All-American” has long inferred a certain type of (Caucasian) citizen, but a trio of covers debuting this October and November encourage us to think far more colorfully, Serena Williams, Normani, and vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris all grace covers dropping in the next month, giving new meaning to the phrase. Here, a few highlights: On Wednesday,…
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Angelica Ross Embodies the Power of Transformation for October's Self Magazine
The concept of a “makeover” gets new meaning this October, as Pose and American Horror Story star (and member of the 2019 and 2020 classes of The Root 100) Angelica Ross gives Self magazine the ultimate “before and after,” buzzing and bleaching her hair during their October cover shoot. Followers of the actress/entrepreneur/advocate got a…
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'It Feels as if Impurities are Being Lifted Out of Your Face': A Product Review of ILERA Apothecary
I love anything from Detroit. If it’s made there, it is simply better than everything else. If you want your hair did have it styled by a Detroiter at least once. A pair of gators? Detroit’s got you. Even Biggie, may he rest in peace, knew that. But because Detroit is the biggest Black city…
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Yashica Olden Will Be Condé Nast's First-Ever Global Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Says 'It’s Everybody’s Job'
With a 111-year history and over two dozen print and digital imprints worldwide, it’s somewhat shocking that Conde Nast hadn’t placed a global emphasis on diversity and inclusion before this year. But like so many media and luxury conglomerates—and amid its own fairly public reckonings at Bon Appetit and Vogue editor-in-chief and Condé Nast Global…
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Rihanna's Savage X Fenty Show Under Fire for Including Islamic Hadith in Soundtrack [Updated]
Rihanna’s Oct. 2 Savage X Fenty show won raves for its diversity and inclusion (including from us), but several Muslim viewers maintain one aspect shouldn’t have been included. A segment of the hourlong production was set to a musical track that reportedly included an Islamic Hadith—otherwise known as a “record of the traditions or sayings…
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Misty Copeland’s Bunheads Is for Children, but There’s a Message for Everyone at the Barre
Last Tuesday, there were several ways you could have spent your 7 pm hour in the Eastern Standard Time Zone—including, but not limited to, witnessing an embattled president categorically lower a standard he’d set in public tantrum-throwing. But in a kinder, gentler section of the internet that evening, positivity and light abounded as Misty Copeland…
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'I Refuse to Be Complicit in My Silence': Gabrielle Union Brings It On in Marie Claire's October Digital Issue
“The more you are transparent and the more you speak truth to power, it creates more space for other people to claim their reality, to claim their pain, to claim their healing, and, if you want, to claim your justice.” So says Gabrielle Union in her cover story for Marie Claire’s October digital issue, which…