black girl magic
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Surreal Life: Zoë Kravitz Teams Up with Tiffany to Make this Holiday a Wonderland
Zoë Kravitz has been on a roll lately. She was the face of Saint Laurent’s fall campaign, paid homage to her famous mama on the cover of Rolling Stone, and has a major role in brand new box office hit, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Oh, and did we mention that she quietly got…
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A First Lady and a Final Farewell: The 2 Dope Queens Podcast Ends With Michelle Obama
How do you end a highly successful podcast (turned HBO special) in a major way? If you’re Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson of WNYC Studios’ 2 Dope Queens, you interview the dopest queen around, our forever first lady turned soon-to-be bestselling author Michelle Obama. For those who didn’t know the podcast was ending, you can…
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Design Flaw: Serena Williams' GQ Cover Deserved Better Than Virgil Abloh
Serena Williams looks stunning on GQ’s latest issue, one of four in its 2018 “Man of the Year” series. She is the sole woman honored. Equally stunning was the major miscalculation made by the magazine’s editors by inviting designer of the moment, Virgil Abloh, to customize the cover, which he did by crossing out the word…
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#AllTogetherNow: Gabrielle Union Introduces Us to Her Covetable—and Affordable—Holiday Collection for New York & Company
With a thriving life as an in-demand actress, television and Broadway producer, bestselling author, beauty entrepreneur, wife and mother—with a newborn, no less—it’s hard to imagine that Gabrielle Union could possibly fit anything else on her already very full plate. But with the release of her latest collection with retailer New York & Company out…
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New Web Series Blacker Tackles Race With a Little Help From Some Actual #BlackGirlMagic
Wouldn’t it be amazing to turn the tables on the unseasoned for their ill-advised antics? Imagine getting reparations with a carefully worded incantation that gives a pompous bigot a taste of his own medicine. That’s what happens in Blacker, a new short web series about racism that was co-created by Rhett Owen and Eric Lockley,…
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Viola, Kamala, Janelle and More Are Glamour's 2018 Women of the Year
What do Viola Davis, Kamala Harris, Janelle Monae, Naomi Wadler and 97-year-old park ranger Betty Reid Soskin have in common? Well, aside from all being incredibly dynamic and inspirational black women, they’ve been named Glamour’s 2018 Women of Year—alongside Chrissy Teigen; the other young female activists of March for Our Lives; Saudi Arabian women’s right…
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Misty Copeland Is Our Favorite New Disney Princess
Misty Copeland just keeps making history. This time, she made it to Disney! We caught up with Copeland to chat about how the Ballerina Princess is helping to make black ballerinas the norm. Watch above. Catch Misty Copeland in Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms in theaters Friday.
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New and Next: Your Bimonthly Black Magazine Cover Roundup Is Here!
What’s this, you ask? Oh, just another crop of black girl magical magazine covers for fall. In fact, there have been so many since September’s record-breaking number that we’ve decided it’s best to just round them up twice monthly, to keep you up to date on who’s covering us. Our last check-in was a mere…
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Umm … Did North West Just Inspire Us to Try a Beauty Trend?
Maybe it’s the falling leaves or the onslaught of Halloween and its attendant pumpkins and color scheme, but we’ve had orange on the brain lately—and apparently, so has one five-year-old famously-parented fashionista known as North West. However you feel about her parents, the eldest child of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West seems to be…