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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Gift, or Gimmick? What's the Deal with Pür’s 100-Shade Foundation Debut?
Does size really matter? When it comes to which cosmetic company has the most diverse foundation range, apparently so. Since 2017’s 40-shade Fenty Beauty launch, we’ve watched company after company attempt to match or exceed their all-inclusive ethos (thanks, Rihanna), with occasionally deeply disappointing results (see: Morphe and Beautyblender). The moral? Quantity is nothing without quality.…
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Billy Porter Does It Again: The Pose Star Wears Upcycled, Gender Fluid Glamour to the 2019 Peabody Awards
If you’re anything like me, you are counting down the days until Pose returns for its second season on FX. But until that happy day arrives, the cast has been giving us no shortage of red carpet drama (see: the Met Gala), most recently at Saturday night’s 78th annual Peabody Awards. We’ve become well-accustomed to…
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The Newest Face of Fenty: Amandla Stenberg Lends Their Beauty to Rihanna’s All-Inclusive Brand
“BEAUTY FOR ALL … and more to come,” Amandla Stenberg (who uses the pronouns “they/them/their”) captioned a mysterious Instagram post last week, featuring their luminous face reflected in a rearview mirror. The image presumably teases an upcoming campaign for Fenty Beauty, which also got a “thank u” from The Hate U Give star for enlisting…
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Mystery Surrounding #BabySussex’s Birthplace Is Finally Put to Rest
Was the newest British royal, baby Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, born in a birthing pool? Or, perhaps he entered the world as Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, labored in her bed at Frogmore Cottage at Windsor Castle, assisted by a midwife or doula? Ehh … no. Turns out #BabySussex was born in a place common to us…
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Tarana Burke to Sit Down With Reporter Jim DeRogatis About New R. Kelly Book, Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly
For nearly 20 years, no one in media knew more about R. Kelly’s trail of alleged abuse then journalist Jim DeRogatis. Now, with his forthcoming book, Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly, DeRogatis tells the story behind his explosive reporting—and why, for nearly 20 years, few people seemed to listen to black women and girls…
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Better Than Ever: Actress Halle Berry Kicks Ageism in the Face
Halle Berry’s BEEN Hollywood. At 50-something years old, the woman is still #Goals. Halle is acting goals. She was introduced to the world in the early 1990s with Jungle Fever—fast forward to 2019, and she is drawing crowds for John Wick 3. Not to mention that Berry has won dozens of awards (including an Academy…
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Lookin' Good as Hell: Lizzo Leads the Charge on June Magazine Covers!
Is summer here yet? As I find myself shopping for a lightweight-but-substantial spring coat (it’s currently 52 degrees in Chicago on this here May the 17th), clearly not. But our constant girl crush Lizzo is bringing the heat on not one, but two covers ripe for the season, starring on both Essence’s digital June issue…
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A Year in the Life: Meghan and Harry Celebrate Their 1st Anniversary—With Help from Gayle King
*Sung in Tony! Toni! Toné! harmony* Do you know what today Sunday is? It’s their anniversary… That’s right, it’s been almost a full year since Meghan Markle became the Duchess of Sussex—and what a year it’s been! For a highlights reel: let’s start with a celebrity-studded and surprisingly black royal wedding; rumored family feuds (mostly…
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Oh, Polly! Fashion Brand Apologizes for ‘Segregating’ Plus-Size and Black and Brown Models
Fashion brand Oh Polly is saying “So sorry” after it was forced to issue apologies when social media users pointed out its placement of plus-size and black and brown models on an Instagram account separate from that of its “main” line. As the BBC reports, folks on social media called out the brand, with people…
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Rihanna Wants You to Remember the Pasty, Lipless Idiots Responsible for Alabama's Terrible Abortion Law
Bad Gal RiRi knows the power of an image. The perennial cover girl, beauty mogul and newly-minted head of her own fashion label chose to focus her Instagram followers’ sights on one particularly compelling image: the blindingly beige visage of all the white men responsible for passing America’s most restrictive abortion bill to date. In…