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How to Get That Glow Down Below, aka Minding Your Lady Business
What would you do to get that glow down below? I mean, we obsess over the delicate skin on our faces, and we invest in sunglasses and eye creams like they’re 401(k)s. We work out and try to eat right to keep everything on our bodies glowing and tight, but when it comes to self-care…
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The Parent Trap: Is Being Nude in Front of Your Kids Free Expression or Overexposure?
Every mother does motherhood differently. There isn’t one way to do it right, but in the internet-run world in which we now live, apparently there are many ways to do it wrong. You know, because the internet is filled with judges and juries. Those ladies and gentlemen of the jury recently gathered in order to…
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(Do) Touch My Hair? 2 White Brits Specialize in Celebrating the Artistic Potential of Black Hair
A funny thing happened on our way to the royal wedding this weekend: We got waylaid by something else exciting on the other side of the pond. Namely, some of the most striking black-hair portraiture we’ve ever seen, courtesy of British photographer Luke Nugent and award-winning hairstylist Lisa Farrall. But there’s a twist: Nugent and…
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Estée Lauder Ambassador Aïssa Maïga to Lead Historic Forum Against Racism and Sexism at Cannes Film Festival
Actress Aïssa Maïga was the first black woman to be nominated for a Cesar, the French equivalent of an Oscar, for the film Bamako in 2006. My Profession Is Not Black is the title of a new book by the French Senegalese actress, who has fought an uphill battle for the last 20 years to…
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The Edge of 17: For Ahkeem Is a Coming-of-Age Story in the Age of Ferguson
Fun fact: I was expelled from preschool at age 4 during a brief stint when my mother and I had moved to Dallas. From the little I recall, I was one of very few black students at my private day school. My expulsion came after I defended myself against another little girl—not black—who’d been harassing…
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Whose Nude? Christian Louboutin Explains Why Inclusion Is Important—but We Still Have Questions
If you were an artistically inclined kid like me, chances are you grew up coveting crayons, colored pencils and art markers by the dozen. (Who am I kidding? I still have a vast collection of art supplies at the ready.) But if you were that kid in the 1980s or prior, you also likely remember…
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An Hour With Her: Debbie Allen Teams Up With Dove to Talk Mentorship
If you’re of a certain age, there’s a likelihood that you remember the iconic words spoken by the character of teacher Lydia Grant in the opening credits of the ’80s hit television series Fame: You’ve got big dreams. You want fame. Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying: in sweat. Multihyphenate…
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L’Oreal Brand Ambassador Fatou N’diaye Brings Her Brand of Africanism to Cannes
I am waiting for the the L’Oreal carriage to come get me to roll out the red carpet at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival Festival wearing a total look from my father’s Soninke tribe. Mali strong (indigo bazin). Fatou N’diaye posted these history-making words last week as she became the first-ever beauty ambassador to appear…
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Yes, We Cannes: The Lens Is on Equality at the World’s Most Fashionable Film Festival
Liberté, egalité, fraternité (“liberty, equality, fraternity”) is France’s motto, and equality has appropriately emerged as the theme of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, taking place May 8-19 on the French Riviera. This year’s nine-member Main Competition Jury boasts five women, including Ava DuVernay, Burundian singer-songwriter Khadja Nin and this year’s jury president, actress Cate Blanchett.…
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My Mother’s Daughter, a Multigenerational Talk About Motherhood, Part 5: Rasheedah
Editor’s note: This year, to celebrate Mother’s Day, The Glow Up interviewed four generations of mothers within a single Harlem family that recently welcomed its fifth generation. We’ve asked these mothers, ages 19 to 83, the same 12 questions about motherhood, daughterhood and matriarchy. This final installment is the conclusion—and also the beginning—of their stories. …