beyoncé
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Just in Case You Want to See Some Black Folks Actually Recognized This Awards Season, the NAACP Image Awards Announced Their 2020 Noms
Guess who just ordered some Lawry’s for this white-ass awards season? That’s right—the NAACP! On Thursday morning, the nominations were announced for the 51st NAACP Image Awards. The ceremony airs after the “official” end of awards season (i.e. after the Oscars), which is fitting due to the concept of Colored People Time (CPT). Kasi Lemmons’…
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Prince’s Estate Only Wants to See the Trump Campaign Refraining From Playing ‘Purple Rain’… Again
Orange Colt 45—President Donald Trump—held a political circle jerk in the form of a rally once again on Thursday evening and, as per usual, suffered a bout of convenient memory loss when he decided to play Prince’s “Purple Rain” as MAGA hype music without the estate’s permission. As such, the estate of the late Purple…
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Pretty in Pink: Beyoncé Gives Us a Peek Into Blue Ivy’s Rose Gold Birthday Extravaganza
When we grow up, we want to be just like Blue Ivy Carter. Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s firstborn is clearly living the best life we can imagine, and racking up credits on Billboard-charting hits in the process. And when Blue Ivy celebrated her seventh run around the sun this January, she did it in pop princess…
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Flawless: Beyoncé Finally Gets the Wax Figure She Deserves—and Miss Tina Approves!
Madame Tussauds hasn’t always been on the mark when it comes to paying tribute to perhaps the most famous figure in music. When a figure of Beyoncé was unveiled in 2017, immediate backlash forced the famed wax emporium to “adjust” the poorly rendered likeness before ultimately opting to remove it altogether. It was just that…
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Jidenna's Slow Whine Will Change Your Life
Somewhere on Beyoncé’s internet, it is written that your life will never be the same after Jidenna dances with you. With the release of his sophomore album, 85 to Africa, he has taken his jollof rice-fueled hips on a tour to bless the lives of many. We caught up with the Classic Man to find…
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Sweet Dream or Beautiful Nightmare? In 22 Days, I'm Going to Find Out That Beyoncé's Diet Is No Joke
I was kidding, I swear. At least, I was mostly kidding when I DM’d The Root’s Editor-in-Chief, Danielle Belton, and asked if the company would pay if I tried the new, Beyoncé-endorsed 22 Days Nutrition program. I even ended my message with the laughing/crying emoji—a clear tip-off that I was joking, right? Right? Customarily, that…
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It's Official: Beyoncé Belongs in the Smithsonian
Last year, Beyoncé helped make history when she approved Tyler Mitchell to photograph her for the cover of the September 2018 issue of American Vogue, making the then-23-year-old the first black photographer—and one of the youngest—to shoot the cover of the world’s best-known fashion magazine in its 126-year history. In the year since, that barrier-breaking…
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Got 22 Days? Beyoncé and Her Trainer Have Your New Eating Plan
We all saw it—the grueling journey from postnatal (with twins!) ‘Yoncé to Homecoming cutoffs ‘Yoncé—and frankly, I, for one, instantly decided I didn’t have the stamina (seriously, the woman is damn near supernatural). But to hear it straight from the Queen’s mouth in the promo for her newest venture, 22 Days Nutrition, “getting the weight…
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'Brown Skin Girl' Was Bound to Be Our New Anti-Colorism Anthem…But It's Also Blue Ivy's 1st Writing Credit!
Bow down, Simba…because we already know who the real star of The Lion King reboot is. The CGI-fueled film opens in U.S. theaters today, but all week we’ve been ramping up, first falling for the fashion-fueled extravaganza that was the “Spirit” video release, and now getting our Afrobeats on with Thursday night’s release of The…
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A Twitter Thread Wants to Know If You Have What It Takes to be Beyoncé’s Assistant
Some lovely Twitter user by the name of Green Chyna gave me one of my most stressful hours on Sunday when they created a quiz titled, “Being Beyoncé’s assistant for the day: DONT GET FIRED THREAD.” Never in my life have I ever cared for a job I knew I wasn’t going to get. In…