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Idris Elba is Officially and Eternally Off the Market
Esteemed actor and sexual chocolate sometimes DJ, Idris Elba, proposed to businesswoman/model Sabrina Dhowre’s last year; the couple exchanged vows yesterday, April 26, at the Ksar Char Bagh hotel in Marrakesh. Guests wore black tie. According to British Vogue, on Friday Dhowre wore two custom dresses by Vera Wang. As she walked the aisle, Dhowre…
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Skin Deep: Appreciation for Dark Brown Flesh-Colored Bandage Goes Viral
“It’s taken me 45 trips around the sun, but for the first time in my life I know what it feels like to have a ‘band-aid’ in my own skin tone,” 45-year-old Apollon wrote last week about his Tru Colour bandage. “You can barely even spot it in the first image. For real I’m holding…
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It's a Beautiful Weekend to Be at the Essence Beauty Carnival!
Here at The Glow Up, we are firm believers in taking downtime when and wherever we can get it. But this weekend has presented us an opportunity to turn up that we simply couldn’t miss, as Essence kicks off its inaugural Beauty Carnival tour in New York City on April 27th & 28th! Making the…
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Reel Life: Model Slick Woods’ Feature Film Debut in Goldie Blurs Reality and Fiction
If there’s one thing that can be said about model-of-the-moment Slick Woods, it’s that she doesn’t hold back. The it-girl and new mom has long been transparent about her life—whether disclosing a childhood and adolescence impacted by the incarceration of her mother, Vonnya-Leah Mason, her own former addiction issues, her non-binary identity, or going into…
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Penitentiary Prada? Incarcerated Fashion Designer Debuts New Clothing Line From Behind Bars
Being black in America means learning to do the most with limited resources. In 2017, Jordan Peele transformed a $4.5 million budget into a $255 million phenomenon, our ancestors somehow survived the brutality of slavery on neckbones, and entrails and we’re still struggling to understand how Country Grammar ever became a thing. But when melanin…
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Color Her Conscious: Nathalie Emmanuel Is the Latest to Advocate for Accurately ‘Melanated’ Casting
She’s already won hearts as the endearing Missandei on Game of Thrones, but actress Nathalie Emmanuel may have won herself a few more since last Sunday’s episode, all due to a simple tweet. As Shadow & Act reported on Thursday, Emmanuel recently became the latest light-skinned actress to turn down a role for a darker-skinned…
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TGIF: Beyoncé Teases Her Ivy Park/Adidas Collab with Help from Grambling State (and Serena Williams Puts More ‘Love on Top’)
When we heard buzz that Beyoncé booked Grambling’s dance team and marching band for a private event during Coachella 2019 last weekend, it seemed like the appropriate second coming of Homecoming, the star’s triumphant Netflix special chronicling her history-making HBCU-inspired 2018 performance. As it turned out, Bey was once again looking forward, not back. On…
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It's a Boy! Tamron Hall Gives Birth to Son Moses
Tamron Hall is officially a mom! On Thursday, the 48-year-old journalist announced on social media the birth of son Moses, after surprising fans early last month with the announcement that she was both newly married to music executive Steven Greener and 32 weeks pregnant with their first child. Mother and son made it safely to…
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For Essence's Mother's Day Issue, Diddy and Family Pay Tribute to Kim Porter
“Puffy, take care of my babies.” Sean “Diddy” Combs tells Essence that longtime love Kim Porter said those words three days before her sudden death from pneumonia last November, after sending her children to Combs while she recovered from what all believed was the flu. In 2006, the then-couple romantically posed for Essence’s cover; now,…
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Respect or Respectability Politics? A Houston Principal Sparks Controversy With a Parental Dress Code [Updated]
Over the past year, The Root and The Glow Up have reported on any number of restrictive school dress codes. Recently in Houston, a local high school principal has sparked controversy with its new rules for parents. As the Houston Chronicle reported, in an April 9th letter to parents (pdf), Carlotta Outley Brown of James…