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The Grammys Is Hosting a Live Tribute Concert for Prince—The Question Is, Would He Have Shaded Some of the Artists?
This April will mark four years since we lost the unmatched legend known as Prince, and the Recording Academy is holding a live tribute concert to honor The Purple One. A couple of days following the Grammy Awards telecast (Jan. 26), Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince will take place in LA to…
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No One, No One, No Onnnnnnnne Other Than Alicia Keys Will Be Hosting the 2020 Grammy Awards
It’s that time again—the biggest night in music will be kicking off the new decade with a familiar host! In a press release, the Recording Academy announced that multi-Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys will be returning to host the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony. Keys took to Twitter on Thursday to excitedly announce the news, as…
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15 Years After Its Birth, AfroPunk Brooklyn Remains a Source of Eternal Inspiration
AfroPunk Festival descended onto Commodore Barry Park for yet another year, and damn was it fun—beautiful, and in case you were worried, yes, it’s still black as hell. Year after year, white media and the rest of the world get a gift. That gift is inspiration and forecasted trends in everything from fabrics, hairstyles, upcoming…
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Go for the Glow: Alicia Keys Covers Essence's June Issue—and More Famous Faces Get Some Shine!
June is Black Music Month, so it’s fitting that 15-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys is covering Essence’s June issue (with Lizzo starring on the digital version)—though it’s actually themed “The Escape Issue.” In keeping with the theme, Keys, who has famously already broken free of entertainment industry expectations by taking a cleaner approach to beauty,…
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Living History: The 61st Annual Grammy Awards Were a Celebration of Iconic Women
Cinderella could never. In the history of iconic glow ups, reality proved far more fantastical than fiction Sunday night at the 61st Grammy Awards ceremony, where the accomplishments of the many queens in attendance put fairytale princesses to shame. There was bestselling author and forever First Lady Michelle Obama, who wowed the Grammys audience with…
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Music, Fashion and Black Girl Magic: Join The Glow Up for the Grammy Awards Red Carpet
The performance lineup for the 2019 Grammys may be “in flux,” but we know there will be plenty of showing out (and likely, plenty showing, in general) on the ceremony’s red carpet this Sunday. From meat dresses to all-sequined everything, as always, we’ll be there watching. As you may know, The Glow Up is The…
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This Girl Is On Firrrrrre: Alicia Keys to Host the 2019 Grammys
Hey, Oscars. The Grammys has a host. Alicia Keys has been named the host of the 61st Grammy Awards ceremony. Keys is in the elite class of multi-winning Grammy artists, having 15 gramophone-shaped statuettes to her name. “A dynamic artist with the rare combination of groundbreaking talent and passion for her craft, Alicia Keys is…
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‘Know Your Girls’ Encourages Black Women to Get Intimate With Breast Health
Despite a few outliers who say they “can’t trust women,” if there’s one thing black women have, it’s their “girls.” Knowing that, a group of black women—including actress Vanessa Bell Calloway, who herself has battled breast cancer, and Alicia Keys, whose mother is a breast-cancer survivor—have partnered with the Susan G. Komen foundation, the Ad…
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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz on Cover of Cultured Magazine as a Black Panther Power Couple
Alicia Keys-Dean and her producer hubby Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean look like a true power couple on the cover of Cultured Magazine. Black Power, that is. The cover is a re-creation of a 1970 photograph of Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and then-wife Kathleen Neal Cleaver taken by photographer Gordon Parks. The accompanying spread is…