black girl magic
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: How Naomi Wadler Disrupted the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
Anyone who thinks children should be seen and not heard has clearly never heard of Naomi Wadler. The 11-year-old blew millions of minds when she appeared onstage at last month’s March for Our Lives “to acknowledge and represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper, whose stories don’t…
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Letitia Wright Gets It Right at Avengers: Infinity War Premiere
Letitia Wright was looking lovely, as usual, at the Avengers: Infinity War premiere in Hollywood on Monday night. Wright is leading the pack in film and fashion and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. The 24-year-old Guyanese-born Brit is poised to represent a generation of strong young women who are interested in STEM…
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Good Vibrations: Solange Writes About Jamaica, Grace Jones and Her New Album
It’s a marvel to grow up alongside an artist, and even more wonderful to see the ways in which she or he continues to evolve and shape—and be shaped by—the world in turn. Solange is very much one of those artists for me: a woman whose journey has been far from predictable, whose gifts are…
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It’s Handled: Farewell, Scandal!
Did I ever tell y’all about the time Kerry Washington retweeted me? I’m not going to dig through over 15,000 tweets to prove this, but trust me: It happened. The year was 2014, and I was still an avid live-tweeter of Scandal—which I then affectionately called ¡Escándalo! due to its over-the-top and ever-escalating telenovela-style shenanigans—and…
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She Ready! Tiffany Haddish Covers W Magazine
You know that feeling you get when one of your homegirls finally gets her shine? It could be a job promotion, an award or even a marriage proposal, but you’re simply thrilled that someone else has recognized the worth of this particularly fabulous woman. That’s how we felt upon learning that Tiffany Haddish had earned…
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Can We Get This Tracee Ellis Ross TED Talk, Already?
True-confession time: This spring has yet to get me sprung. It’s likely because I’ve based myself in Northern cities, but as of yet, I’ve been uninspired by this season’s offerings—both weatherwise and in the way of a much-needed pick-me-up. The truth is, I’ve been fairly pissed off as of late, and I think I could…
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RiRi’s Style Sizzles at Coachella
Yaaass! RiRi came through drippin’ at Coachella last weekend, and that was just the pool party she threw for the launch of Fenty x Puma at a private estate in Indio, Calif. Her new collection—which is a mashup of easy, beachy clothes and streetwear inspired by motocross cool—painted the desert in neon hues of yellow,…
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Soul on Ice: Beyoncé’s Ivy Park Honors Figure Skating of Harlem
Beautiful black baby girls on ice skates is a sight to behold. Perhaps that’s why Beyoncé just blessed Figure Skating of Harlem, the only organization in America that offers ice skating and academic mentoring to girls of color, with workout gear from her line, Ivy Park. On its website, Ivy Park stated, “We donated bc…
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Around-the-Way Girl: Meet Adut Akech, Italian Vogue’s Cover Girl Next Door
Fresh for spring! Adut Akech is one of the supermodels on the cover of Italian Vogue’s April “Girls Next Door” issue, shot by the photographer team Mert Atlas and Marcus Piggott. Barely 10 days after Akech’s star turn on the cover of British Vogue, here she is again, letting us know that she’s playing by…
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Tina Knowles-Lawson Was Worried That Coachella’s Predominantly White Audience Would Be ‘Confused’ by Beyoncé’s Performance
We all knew that Beyoncé’s Coachella performance, which was essentially her comeback to the stage since having twins Sir and Rumi, was going to be popping. Our queen is nothing if not a stellar performer and a perfectionist—no detail is too small. However, what we actually got Saturday night left many of us (aka Beyoncé’s…