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As Awards Season Wraps Up, the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards Honor Our Magic
The competition may be fierce for Hollywood’s top honors on Oscars Sunday, but at the annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards luncheon on Wednesday, it was all love … with fierceness of a different sort. This year’s honorees Regina Hall, KiKi Layne, Amandla Stenberg and the “Mother of Black Hollywood” Jenifer Lewis were all…
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Black-Owned Beauty Month, Day 21: Hair Can Be a Tangled Web
Black History Month has been loaded this year—for a number of reasons. But here at The Glow Up, we ran into an unexpected snag as we attempted to delve into the hair histories of our team as a special feature this month. Namely, for all the momentum of the natural hair movement and a general…
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Tamera Mowry Says Tia Mowry’s Breast Milk Is the ‘Best She’s Ever Tried in Her Life’ and We Wish We Didn’t Know That
For those of you who don’t know, I have a sister. She’s one of my best friends, all-around favorite people in the world (no shade to my brother), and has gifted me with arguably the most adorable niece and nephew in the world. (Fight me.) Seriously, she’s in my top three; we’ve shared meals, clothes,…
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#TBT: So, About That Time Spike Lee and Angela Bassett Teamed Up for the Best Black History Month Tribute of 2019 …
Black History Month 2019 has been one for the garbage books, amirite? Amongst our crew here at The Root, we’ve been wondering if we should ask for an exchange or just cancel the remainder of this year’s subscription. Even the always erudite Michael Harriot, who loves spinning gold out of absolute trash asked, “Can we…
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With HFR x Google's 1st Fashion Summit, Harlem's Fashion Row Pays It Forward
On Friday, February 15, in a room full of some of fashion’s most influential and aspirational people, Harlem’s Fashion Row founder Brandice Daniel delivered a bleak statistic: Less than 1% of designers sold in major department stores are of color. However, even in that moment, change was already afoot, thanks in large part to Google,…
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Retro, Fitted: We Just Peeped the Upcoming Zendaya x Tommy Hilfiger Collab—and Feel Broke Already
Damn it, just take our money, already. When news broke that Zendaya would be the next celeb to create a capsule line with American style icon Tommy Hilfiger, we were admittedly more interested in the label than we’d been in years. Choosing the ingenue and burgeoning fashion icon was an inspired choice—though we weren’t exactly…
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She's Your Queen to Be: Beyoncé Just Made a Portrait of Meghan Markle a Must-Have
Yeah, yeah… we know Meghan Markle isn’t ever going to be Queen of England. But that hasn’t stopped the most-watched member of the British royal family from getting the royal treatment—most recently, from Queen Bey, as part of Wednesday night’s Brit Awards. Posing in front of a traditional portrait of the Duchess of Sussex posed…
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Black-Owned Beauty Month, Days 19 & 20: Anyone Else Feeling Jaded?
Are we ready to call a do-over on Black History Month yet? Because honestly, I can’t remember a month more plagued with shenanigans, false starts, bait-and-switches and outright WTF-ery since about … November of 2016. Case-in-point: Yesterday, I was all excited to brief you on my progress with Black-Owned Beauty Month, but technology wouldn’t let…
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This Is Not a Drill: Serena Williams Just Teamed Up With Poshmark
Love Serena? Love Poshmark? Well, consignment lovers, your day just got made, because the fashion-loving Serena Williams just joined the social commerce marketplace’s board of directors—and has placed some of her designer goods up for sale! “The more I learned about the company, the more I learned, like, ‘Wow, this is literally me,’” Williams says…
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Meghan Takes Manhattan: The Royal Baby Shower Comes Stateside
She may be a British royal now, but Meghan Markle still loves a good, old-fashioned girls’ trip. Ahead of the birth of her first child, the Duchess wasn’t going to miss out on a chance to celebrate with her American girl squad. Markle chose New York City as the site of her stateside baby shower…