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Home Theater: One of the Most Anticipated Plays of the Chicago Theatrical Season Premieres Online
As the COVID-19 epidemic has derailed all of our lives, it has done unimaginable damage to the live entertainment industry, as festival season, concerts and theatrical productions have been unceremoniously postponed or canceled outright, leaving performers, directors, production crews and the venues themselves with gaping holes in their projected incomes. But as they say in…
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Because Indoors Doesn't Mean Invisible: Angelica Ross and Friends Give Us the #BrushItOffChallenge
If you know The Glow Up, you know we are huge fans of the hit FX series Pose and its incredible cast and crew. In fact, one of the show’s breakout stars, Angelica Ross, was a 2019 Root 100 honoree (where this writer may or may not have embarrassingly gushed over her while introducing her…
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'It Was Everything': Viola Davis' Favorite HTGAWM Memory? That Old-School Hair Moment With Cicely Tyson
Imagine being able to say that you got to sit betwixt the knees of the leading matriarch of black Hollywood while she does your hair, ever so tenderly. Well, Viola Davis has those bragging rights. A highly respected actor in her own right, Davis reminisced on her favorite moment throughout the six seasons of the…
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Wigging Out: How Ari Lennox, Snoop and an Unsolicited Opinion Became an Affirmative Moment
Folks, we have a lot of time on our hands these days—OK, too much—which means a lot us are spending way too much time on the interwebs, weighing in on shit that has zero to do with our own personal wellbeing. Case in point: singer/songwriter/social media regular and known naturalist Ari Lennox couldn’t even crowdsource…
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SheaMoisture Just Announced a $1 Million Fund to Support Women of Color Entrepreneurs Affected by the COVID-19 Crisis
Shea Moisture’s business model was built on the concept of “Community Commerce.” Now, in the wake of the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the personal care brand is once again making good on its promise to bring commerce to the community, announcing on Wednesday morning a one million dollar fund “to support women…
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It's a 'Du': Leave It to Rihanna to Epitomize Self-Isolation Style While Staging a Fashion First
As if we needed another excuse not to style our hair while self-isolating, Rihanna has provided the perfect one. With her most recent British Vogue cover, the 32-year-old fashion icon, entertainer and mogul reminded us she’s always one step ahead of a major cultural moment, sporting a durag (also fondly known as a “do-rag”) for…
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This Equal Pay Day, the Crisis May Be Widening the Chasm
In the midst of a global pandemic, discussions about gender wage equality have largely taken a backseat to broader concerns about widespread economic insecurity in the wake of this crisis. Nevertheless, March 31 marks Equal Pay Day, the day that symbolizes how long it would take American women to “catch up” to the average earnings…
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FiveXmore: Black British Mamas Campaign to Raise Awareness About Maternal Health Disparities
Black women’s ability to get adequate care during pregnancy and childbirth is an international issue. While the United Kingdom has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world, black Brits are still five times more likely to die during pregnancy and after childbirth than white women. In response, a group of black women started…
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These Therapist-Approved Tips Can Help Manage Your Anxiety Around the Coronavirus
“There is the temptation to kind of busy ourselves right now because we have all this free time, so to speak, which is not free time, you know. And so for people who are feeling pressure to kind of be extra creative right now or, you know, do some great work right now, I want…
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As COVID-19 Closures Continue, America's Biggest Retailers Furlough Employees
If I’m honest, I’ve had a longstanding love-hate relationship with the retail juggernaut known as Macy’s. Love, because I spent decades modeling for their catalogs and e-commerce site, working with some of the coolest, kindest people around. Hate, because growing up in the Midwest, shopping at much-beloved department stores like Chicago’s Marshall Field’s and the…