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Hair Apparent: The Look You Didn't See in Laverne Cox's Latest Cover Story Was Braid-to-Order
Laverne Cox is already well-known to body an over-the-top look—it doesn’t hurt that the statuesque actress has the stage presence to match. Accordingly, it’s no surprise that the Emmy-nominated breakout star of Orange Is the New Black donned a series of dramatic looks for Paper magazine’s “America” issue, released in tandem with Hulu’s Black star-studded…
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The 'Costumes' We Wear
It’s the time of year where I try to decipher whether I’d prefer to channel my inner pumpkin or Catwoman. It’s always one of the two. I’ve never tried to dress up as anything else for Halloween. Though I’m in complete awe of people who get really creative and can make costumes, I’ve never been…
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How Two Black Women Sidestepped Corporate America to Build a Fierce, All-Star Literary Agency
On the social media surface, the country is engaged in a big embrace of Blackness. Companies vowing to hire and advance more Black staff. Philanthropists pledging hefty donations to Black organizations. Editors making space for Black stories in mainstream, notoriously vanilla publications. After years under indictment for its willful whiteness and undermotivated diversification, the publishing…
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COVID Claims a Black Female-Owned Brand: Carly Cushnie Announces the End of Her Eponymous Label
It’s already a well-documented fact that the outbreak of the novel coronavirus has disproportionately affected Black communities in almost every way imaginable—including Black-owned businesses, 41 percent of which have closed permanently since the initial lockdown in April, compared to only 17 percent of white businesses. On Thursday, one of the few luxury labels helmed by…
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Check on It: Ivy Park 'Drip 2' Is More Accessible All Around
One of the best qualities a creator can have is to listen to (constructive) feedback and adjust accordingly—and it appears Beyoncé and Adidas have done exactly that with their second collaborative drop of Ivy Park. Following criticisms that the relaunch of the brand was both cost-prohibitive to most and lacking inclusivity, “Drip 2″ not only…
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About Face: After a Years-Long Impasse, André Leon Talley Praises Anna Wintour Amid Accusations of Racism
Have we entered the season of forgiveness? In his 2020 bestselling memoir, The Chiffon Trenches fashion legend André Leon Talley referred to his former boss, Condé Nast Artistic Director Anna Wintour, as “ruthless” and “not capable” of human kindness.” Following Wintour’s much-publicized apology for “mistakes” made with regard to Vogue’s treatment of Black talent and…
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An American Family: Ilhan Omar and Daughter Isra Star on Teen Vogue's November Cover
As a Black girl born in Minneapolis, you’d think I’d have closely tracked the ascension of Somali refugee turned American political firebrand Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). But as I graduated high school just outside the Twin Cities and made a new life as a college student in New York City, Omar was a new arrival in…
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She Can Cook, Too: Black Female Chefs Find a Sweet Spot in OWN's First-Ever Food Programming
If you’re anything like The Root crew, month upon month of quarantine has deepened your relationship with your kitchen—or, perhaps gotten you newly acquainted. Whether it’s perfecting your sourdough starter (we’re looking at you, Managing Editor Genetta Adams), starting an entire Insta-feed for your culinary creations (a la our Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton), or becoming unusually…
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Tommy Hilfiger Joins Harlem's Fashion Row's First Designer Tech Summit
One of the bright spots in these dark times is that all this extra downtime has provided new opportunities to educate ourselves, often via creative new ways of engaging with tech. Designers of color advocacy platform Harlem’s Fashion Row (HFR) has been leveraging both throughout this year, producing summits and a highly successful Fashion Week…
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'Y’all Don’t Do This to These White Celebrities' Cardi Calls Out the Racism in Criticism of Her Birkin Collection
At some point, folks are gonna stop worrying about how Cardi B spends her money, and Cardi is going to stop rising to take the bait. But today is not that day, and what y’all not about to do is project your racism onto her retail therapy—namely, her extensive and much–written–about collection of Birkins. Anyone…