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Black Hair Matters: The Affirmative Power of Politicians Like Ayanna Pressley and Stacey Abrams
When Ayanna Pressley got her Senegalese twists done for the first time about three years ago, it was a moment of affirmation and recognition. “I just really loved it,” she told The Glow Up. “I felt my most authentic and powerful self.” Speaking over the phone this past September, Pressley explained that when she was…
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'I Am Numb': Tarana Burke Gets Real About the Cost of Leading—and Living—#MeToo
“This movement is constantly being called a ‘watershed moment’ or even a reckoning,” Tarana Burke told the audience at TED Women 2018. “But I wake up some days feeling like all evidence points to the contrary. … It’s hard not to feel numb.” It was an unexpected admission from the founder of the Me Too…
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Stephen Curry Continues to Address Gender Disparity—This Time, With a Sneaker
Steph Curry has gone on record in support of gender equality (though we’ve yet to see any of that translate to equal or even higher pay for the WNBA). In fact, in an essay timed to coincide with Women’s Equality Day 2018, he wrote about the impact his mother, wife, and daughters have had upon…
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The Glow Up Grows Up: It’s Our 1st Birthday!
What a difference a year makes! Only 365 days ago, we were celebrating the birth of The Root’s newest baby, a beauty, fashion and women’s empowerment blog coyly titled The Glow Up. A year, one awards season, two Fashion Months (and a Cruise Collection Week) and well over 1,000 posts later, we’re slightly older, hopefully…
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Being Naomi: A Fashion Legend Launches Her 1st-Ever YouTube Channel
She’s best known as a supermodel, but Naomi Campbell is so much more than a runway legend or infamously short-tempered diva. She’s also a humanitarian, socialite, editor, activist, actress, mentor, trailblazer, muse—and now she’s on YouTube, giving a more intimate view into her glamorous life with a new web series, Being Naomi. Obviously, we’ve been…
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Luxury for Less? Payless Transforms Into ‘Palessi’ for a Seriously Funny Fake-Out
You remember those vintage bait-and-switch coffee commercials, where patrons of a fine dining restaurant would be astounded to discover that the delicious coffee they were drinking was actually Folgers? Okay, maybe you don’t (because maybe I’m showing my age), but Payless ShoeSource recently employed a similar tactic when they faked a luxury boutique environment to…
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Brown Girls and Beyond: Sam Bailey Is Adding New and Needed Voices to Our Narrative
Has there ever been a better time to be a black female content creator? Conventional logic would say no; after all, filmmaker Ava DuVernay just inked a $100 million dollar deal with Warner Bros., while Shonda Rhimes has moved her evolving empire of successful series to Netflix in a deal reportedly worth $150 million. And…
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The Spice Girls' Mel B Just Gave New Meaning to 'Cutting Off' Your Ex
We’ve never been fans of the nickname “Scary Spice,” given to The Spice Girls’ Mel B. But the entertainer and judge of America’s Got Talent recently disclosed a detail about how she dealt with her purportedly “abusive” relationship and divorce from ex-husband Stephen Belafonte (no relation to Harry Belafonte) that definitely gave us…pause. The former…
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Fried, Dyed and Laid to the Side: Hazardous Hair Products Are Being Marketed to Black Women
From deep conditioners, to relaxers and gels, on any given day black women put tons of products in our hair. We don’t just wake up like this. Well, sometimes we do, but. Wait. OK. Back to the story. African Americans have tremendous spending power. In fact, according to Nielsen we spend about $1.2 trillion a…