The Internet is Losing Its Mind Over Oprah’s Crop Top and Fly Looks
All The Fabulous Black Style Seen At Paris Fashion Week
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Because Nobody Asked for It, Erykah Badu Is Giving Us Incense That Smells Like Her…Badussy
Have you ever wondered what the black version of Goop’s infamous (but nevertheless sold-out) “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle would be? No? Well, too bad for you, because the artistic and ethereal entity known as Erykah Badu is making her own entry into the growing market of undercarriage-inspired scents. In a recent cover story…
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Where Misplaced Loyalty and Misogynoir Collide: On Snoop, Cosby, and Why Protecting Black Women Always Seems the Last Priority
It was another ritualistic dragging on social media this week, as Black Twitter read Gayle King for filth for daring to ask WNBA veteran Lisa Leslie about the darker side of Kobe Bryant’s legacy (his 2003 sexual assault charge, which was subsequently dismissed and settled out of court) during an interview on CBS This Morning.…
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An Artist Ahead of Her Time: Remembering Makeup Artist Vanessa Evelyn
On Wednesday, Jan. 22, the world lost a phenomenal creative mind. Legendary British makeup artist Vanessa Evelyn Watt succumbed to a battle with cancer. She was 55. For many, the name Vanessa Evelyn may be unfamiliar, which is part of what makes this loss especially tragic. There is a strange and hard truth about many…
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Sorry to Those Brands: Keke Palmer Is the New Face of Olay, Okay?
Real talk? While I’m a longtime lover of Olay, it’s not a brand I automatically associate with the younger set. My Gen-X self inherited a love for the brand (then more commonly known as Oil of Olay) from my mother, who was taught by her mother and…well, you get it. But while it’s an enduring…
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Game, ‘Scarfs’: Our Favorite NBA Face-Off of the Season Might Be Serge Ibaka and OG Anunoby’s Fashion Feud
“I put you on how to dress,” OG Anunoby told fellow Toronto Raptor and avowed fashion-lover Serge Ibaka in a recent episode of Canadian retailer Holt Renfrew’s Avec Classe—a fashion web series hosted by Ibaka. “You put me on?” Ibaka asked, with an incredulous laugh. After all, we’ve been checking Ibaka’s style game (and cheekbones,…
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An Immigrant’s Story: Acclaimed Author Edwidge Danticat Wins $100,000 Prize for Her ‘Genre-Spanning Work’
Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Farming of Bones; Brother, I’m Dying, etc.) has long been considered one of the most gifted voices in the diaspora, garnering a National Book Critics Circle Award, an American Book Award, and a MacArthur Genius grant, among her many honors. This week, the writer and activist can…
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A Year After Its Blackface Scandal, Prada Agrees to Longterm Structural Changes
“When I spoke out about Prada’s blackface line one year ago, I feared that racism in fashion was a just bitter pill we collectively had to swallow,” said Chinyere Ezie, a civil rights attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, on Wednesday. “Now I know that speaking truth to power can lead to meaningful change.”…
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A Rose for a Racist? Bachelor Contestant Outed as Former ‘White Lives Matter’ Model, Loses Cosmo Cover
In the immortal words of André 3000, sometimes “roses really smell like boo-boo”—and, such is the case of Victoria Fuller, one of the 30 women vying for roses on this season of ABC’s long-running franchise The Bachelor. Fuller (not to be confused with the former Playmate of the same name) is a 26-year-old medical sales…
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At the 2020 State of the Union Address, Democratic Congresswomen Once Again Made a Statement With Style
As Trump continued his whitewashing of America on Tuesday night’s State of the Union, many of the Democratic women of the House of Representatives (including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi) once again donned white in protest. While many of our most famous congressional faces—including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Frederica Wilson (Fla.),…