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Don’t (re)Touch My Hair: Photographer Apologizes for Photoshopping Lupita Nyong’o’s Hair on Magazine Cover
The photographer who “smoothed” actress Lupita Nyong’o’s hair for the cover of Grazia magazine has apologized, saying he made an “incredibly monumental mistake.” Photographer An Le, who was born in Saigon, Vietnam, but now lives in and runs a studio in New York City, added that changing Nyong’o’s hair was an “unbelievably damaging and hurtful…
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LeBron James and His Cleveland Cavaliers Teammates Rode a NYC Subway Train ‘Like Real Citizens’ Monday Morning
LeBron James took his first-ever ride on a New York City subway train with his teammates from the Cleveland Cavaliers, and he filmed it so that all his fans could enjoy his trip right along with him. The Cavaliers were in New York to face off against the Knickerbockers (hahaha, I’m going to keep doing…
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Barbie Shero Doll, Inspired by Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad, Becomes 1st Barbie to Wear a Hijab
Ibtihaj Muhammad at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics became the first American athlete to ever wear a hijab while competing. Muhammad secured a bronze medal fencing with Team USA at the 2016 Games. Now the first-class athlete can tick off another “first” on her bucket list, since she has become the inspiration for Barbie’s newest…
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Philly Residents Plan March for Meek Mill
If you saw the hashtag #FreeMeek while browsing Black Twitter and thought someone was giving away Meek Mill’s albums, you are incorrect. Residents of Philadelphia will take to the streets Monday afternoon to protest the imprisonment of the rapper and notorious collector of L’s after the hip-hop star was imprisoned on parole violations. Born Robert…
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Colin Kaepernick Is GQ’s Citizen of the Year Without Having to Say a Damn Thing
It’s long been clear that Colin Kaepernick has become a bigger hero off the football field than he ever was on it. In a year that has seen the ripple effects of the quarterback’s 2016 national anthem protests against racial injustice (protests that effectively barred him from playing the sport again but that have become…
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Catch ’Em if You Can: Pics of Sir and Rumi Carter Hit the Nets but Are Taken Down Almost as Fast
You may have wept over sweet baby Jesus this Sunday, but there have also been some tears shed over two other babies, Sir and Rumi Carter, twins of Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who were caught by paparazzi in Miami. There have been no official photos of the twins since their mother posted one shortly after their…
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J.Crew Doesn’t Believe in Hairstylists for Its Black Models
Many are up in arms about a photo making the rounds in social media, showing a black model in a recent J.Crew ad campaign who looks as if she ain’t seen nary a brush or some grease in days. Now, there’s nothing wrong with our beautiful, natural, grows-out-of-my-head-like-dis coils, but the photo apparently shows an…
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Tiffany Haddish Kills Louis C.K. on SNL: Keep Your ‘Thang-Thang’ in Your Pants Until She Takes Her Clothes Off, Mkay?
Wow. Before we get into Tiffany Haddish’s epic takedown of Louis C.K., the comedian who loved to whip his dick out on women through the years, let’s talk about the fact that after more than 40 seasons on the air, Saturday Night Live had, in Haddish, its first black female comedian to host the show.…
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RuPaul Is the Queen, Naomi a Beheader: Pirelli’s 2018 Calendar Envisions an All-Black Alice in Wonderland
Pirelli, the Milan-based tire company, has taken an enduring, mystical story of Alice in Wonderland and blackened it up for its annual calendar. The results? Stunning. In its 45th iteration, the Pirelli annual calendar features an all-black cast to represent photographer Tim Walker’s vision of the Lewis Carroll classic. Styled by British Vogue Editor Edward…