black girl magic
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The Edge of 17: For Ahkeem Is a Coming-of-Age Story in the Age of Ferguson
Fun fact: I was expelled from preschool at age 4 during a brief stint when my mother and I had moved to Dallas. From the little I recall, I was one of very few black students at my private day school. My expulsion came after I defended myself against another little girl—not black—who’d been harassing…
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Debra Shaw Gets Her 1st Vogue Cover at 41
We’ve seen her. We know her. We love her. We just don’t know her name—it’s Debra Shaw. We don’t know why it’s taken so long for her to land the cover of Vogue, but what we do know is that we love Debra Shaw’s May cover of Vogue Portugal. Why? Because at 41 years old,…
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Met Gala 2018: Issa Rae Gets Regal and Red-Carpet Ready
Last night, all the sexy people strutted their red-carpet stuff at fashion’s biggest night out: the Met Gala, the annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. Issa Rae was ready to shine as usual, giving the evening’s theme, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” her own spin…
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‘I Was Joan of Arc in a Former Life’: How Zendaya Was Transformed for the 2018 Met Gala
“What do you think Zendaya will wear?” As of late, that’s the question we’ve become accustomed to asking before red-carpet events. In the past few years, the ingenue has matured into a bona fide style star, frequently winning our “best dressed” votes at parties, film premieres and even this year’s Academy Awards. With her boundary-pushing…
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It Was a Glorious Night for #BlackGirlMagic at the Ms. Foundation Gloria Awards
If the future is female, what of the present? Former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and now Black-ish writer and Ms. Foundation Gloria Awards honoree, Elaine Welteroth says, “As millennial women, we exist in this interesting intersection between the past and the future and we bridge generations. On one side, you have Gloria [Steinem] who has…
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The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: ‘Anna Wintour’ by Azealia Banks
She’s messy; she’s brilliant; she’s talented. At times insecure; has frequently been problematic; and at some point made a very illogical endorsement of Donald Trump. And if she sounds like someone else who made major headlines this week, it’s because both have their sanity questioned on the regular. But try as we might, we’re not…
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3 Black Girls Competing to Win Trip to NASA Reportedly Hacked by Racists
Although it has been reported that NASA shut down voting after a team of three black girls was handily winning a contest it sponsored, it appears that what happened was that someone hacked the system to take votes away from the girls, and that’s why the contest was shut down before the stated official voting…
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Comic Relief: Wash Day Captures the Radical Self-Love in a Hair-Care Ritual
When is your “wash day”? Saturday mornings? Sunday afternoons after church? However a black woman wears her hair, the wash-day ritual is one she undoubtedly knows well, with techniques sometimes preserved since childhood, or honed to perfection after starting her natural-hair journey. A group of young female creatives are paying “tribute to the beauty and…
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: First-Time Feature Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Wins for Little Woods
There were dozens of incredible films, events, awards and celebrity sightings at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, but here’s one to really watch: On Thursday, writer and director Nia DaCosta took home the Nora Ephron Award at the festival’s juried awards ceremony for her first feature film, Little Woods. Starring Tessa Thompson and Lily…
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She’s a Savage: There’s Even More to Love About Rihanna’s New Lingerie Line
At this point, we may as well just add Rihanna as a co-signer on our bank accounts, because she’s clearly intent on draining them. Ever since we heard that our favorite bad girl had a lingerie line in the works, we’ve been excited, to say the least (we hear Rihanna has that effect on people).…