Flyest Moments At A$AP Rocky’s Fashion Show During Paris Men’s Fashion Week
Black Celebs Showed Out at Paris Fashion Week
Anna Wintour Exits Vogue While A Black Editor Awaits The Call
Supermodel Anok Yai Looked Stunning and Different at Paris Fashion Week
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White Woman Claims She Invented the Hair Bonnet, Black Twitter Tells Her to Go Back to Wypipostan
A white woman may have secured her spot in the Columbusing Hall of Fame after claiming that she invented an accessory used by black women ever since Earline Jackson delayed her escape to the Underground Railroad by informing Harriet Tubman: “Hold up. I forgot my hair bonnet.” In an article with Fashion Magazine, entrepreneur Sarah…
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'Brown Skin Girl' Was Bound to Be Our New Anti-Colorism Anthem…But It's Also Blue Ivy's 1st Writing Credit!
Bow down, Simba…because we already know who the real star of The Lion King reboot is. The CGI-fueled film opens in U.S. theaters today, but all week we’ve been ramping up, first falling for the fashion-fueled extravaganza that was the “Spirit” video release, and now getting our Afrobeats on with Thursday night’s release of The…
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Serena Williams Tops the 4th Annual Sports Illustrated Fashionable 50
Is it just us, or is Serena Williams everywhere as of late? Just last week, we were in awe of the tennis phenom in all her unretouched golden glory on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, and now she’s once again killing the game, covering Sports Illustrated’s fourth annual Fashionable 50 issue. The tagline for the…
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It's Official: Michelle Obama Is the Most Admired Woman in the World—and Keeps Paying It Forward
Confirming what most of us already know, a new poll places Michelle Obama atop its list of the most admired women in the world. As reported by the Hill, an annual study by global market research company YouGov places two black women in the top spots; Obama is followed by close friend Oprah Winfrey in…
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As Part of a $3 Million Investment, Serena Williams Adds Her Power to the Fight Against Maternal Mortality
What does it mean when the most recognizable female athlete in the world can’t get the attention she needs when suffering complications after giving birth? For Serena Williams, it meant becoming intimately familiar with the crisis currently facing so many black expectant mothers—the threat of a life-or-death outcome. Williams, who documented her own harrowing journey…
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The ‘Baby-Faced Assassin’: Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Scores Allure’s August Cover
She may not have managed another Grand Slam at the French Open or Wimbledon (that Australian Open, though), but Naomi Osaka is still a tennis phenom on the rise—with a rising profile that now includes the cover of Allure’s August issue. It’s the Japanese-Haitian athlete’s first American fashion magazine cover, and while I personally wish…
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The Second City Turns Complex Community: ComplexCon Brings the ‘Cultural Super Bowl’ to Chicago This Weekend
Real talk? I’m not terribly prone to FOMO—I’m grown, respectably connected and have done my share of thangs, so to speak. Nevertheless, I must admit to feeling some significant event envy last fall when my press invite to ComplexCon once again got lost in the mail (and I may or may not have sent a…
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‘Barbie Dreams’…of Fendi: Is a Nicki Minaj Luxury Collab in the Works?
It’s no secret that Nicki Minaj and late luxury designer Karl Lagerfeld had a deep mutual admiration for each other, with the two joining forces on a cover shoot for Elle last year and Minaj frequently fawning over Lagerfeld’s designs for Chanel. But if suspicions are correct, it may be Fendi, another formerly Lagerfeld-designed label,…
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With a New Amendment, New York State Quietly Joins California in Fighting Hair Discrimination [Updated]
New York City passed amendments to ban hair discrimination in February, but now the state has followed suit, lending its legislative weight to the ongoing conversation around hair bias. Prompted by the CROWN Act (SB 188), proposed by Sen. Holly J. Mitchell (D-Calif.), California became the first state to pass anti-hair discrimination legislation on July…