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‘I Changed the Whole Game’: Billy Porter Calls Out the Double Standard in Praising Harry Styles’ Nonbinary Fashion
The Emmy, Grammy and Tony-winning actor called out the fashion industry and Vogue, referencing the magazine's history-making cover of Styles in a dress.
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We Have Just One Question for the 2021 MTV VMAs Red Carpet: Are You OK?
After over a year primarily spent in quarantine, the looks on many of the night's stars looked like a cry for help.
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Lindsay Peoples Wagner Is (Re)Making The Cut by Recognizing Fashion’s Racism
'Fast Fashion' has new meaning with Heron Preston’s latest; TGU co-founder Veronica Webb rightfully gets her flowers; Aaliyah's legacy gets new merch.
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It’s About To Be Real: Gabrielle Union’s New Show Sells to Amazon Studios—Billy Porter Slated to Direct
I’ll Have Another Productions signed a deal with Amazon to produce a queer teen comedy about Pride tentatively titled To Be Real.
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The Funk Boutique: Powerful Pairs and Poses
The stars of 'Pose,' the Knowles sisters and walking in the Elbas' shoes are among this week's fashion, beauty and culture drops.
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‘This Is for Me’: Billy Porter Reveals That He Is HIV-Positive
The Emmy-winning actor revealed he'd been diagnosed in 2007 and pushes back against stigma, saying 'it’s time to let all that go and tell a different story.'
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And the Category Is…Grand Closing: FX's Pose 3rd and Final Season Will Debut in May
Much like the song that became Candy’s (portrayed by The Root 100 honoree Angelica Ross) theme song, “Never Knew Love Like This Before” by Stephanie Mills, we never knew joy quite like Pose gave us. The breakout FX series is special. In a press release sent to The Root on Friday morning, FX announced that…
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There May Not Have Been a Red Carpet, but the 2020 Emmys Stayed Home in Style
Plunging necklines. Shimmering sequins. Tailored tuxes. They may not have made their way onto a red carpet this year, but there were nevertheless plenty of each at the reimagined 72nd Annual Emmy Awards, where Hollywood showed us that one pandemic don’t stop no show. In fact, the modified ceremony was both a happy distraction from…
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Exclusive: A Powerful New Video From the Human Rights Campaign and Billy Porter Reminds Us Our Votes Do Matter
There has been so much trauma, violence, inhumanity and depraved indifference splashed across our screens in recent months, it’s often difficult to process it all—let alone the brutality we’ve become almost inured to over the past decade and those prior. But what we have been witnessing as of late is not only not new, it…