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This Is How You Use Your Privilege: How Jessica Chastain Helped Octavia Spencer Earn Her Worth
Golden Globe-winning actress Jessica Chastain is well-known as one of the most vocal women in Hollywood when it comes to demanding equity, insisting that she be paid on par with her male co-stars. As she told Newsweek in 2017: What I do now, when I’m taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness…
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Love Without a (Price) Limit: Love Mary J.’s Look at the SAG Awards? Get It With Black Opal!
It’s no secret that we’re all about Mary J. Blige’s glow up this awards season; in fact, we’re not sure we’ve stanned this hard for her since What’s the 411? The singer and actress has been nominated for Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild awards, and now a history-making two Oscar nods for…
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Acting at the Intersection: Lupita Nyong’o Speaks to The Glow Up
If you’ve followed Lupita Nyong’o’s career since her breakthrough Oscar-winning role in 12 Years a Slave, you know she’s more than an ingenue—or four-time Vogue cover model. The Yale-educated actress, writer, producer and director is the product of a highly artistic, academic and political upbringing, and has long been outspoken about issues affecting black women,…
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Join The Glow Up for the SAG Awards Tonight!
Glow Up gang, we’re back! Tonight we’ll be hosting a thread for the 2018 SAG Awards ceremony, starting with the red carpet at at 6:15 p.m. EST. You can join us by joining our Facebook group, where we’ll be dishing on our faves and hopefuls! (We’re personally pulling for a first-time win for supporting actress…
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Black Gold: Stars Auction Their Golden Globes Gowns for #TimesUp
Everyone’s betting on black in the fight against sexual harassment. On Tuesday morning, Conde Nast Publications—home to Vogue and Vanity Fair—announced that it will partner with eBay to auction off some of the gowns and tuxedos the stars wore to the 2018 Golden Globes. This year’s ceremony will go down in history for the celebrities who…
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Ladies First: Black Lightning Is a Superhero Story That Doesn’t Strike Us Down
(Warning: Spoilers abound below.) “Strange Fruit” echoing in the background of the show’s opening minutes. A young black woman narrating. References to Fannie Lou Hamer and Harriet Tubman. Mentions of SZA and Solange. Testosterone might power Black Lightning, the superhero, but a healthy dose of estrogen helps drive Black Lightning, the series. In the series,…
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#RedCarpetRoundup: The Stars Came Out to Shine at the 2018 NAACP Awards
Don’t you just love us? On Monday night, #BlackExcellence was out in full force at the 49th annual NAACP Image Awards, and our best and brightest stars did not come to play. They came to werk. We don’t know if you watched, but we do know that our Glow Up gang loves a good red-carpet…
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#RedCarpetRoundup: Color Made a Comeback at the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards
Spring is coming! We know, we know … we’re still a long way off, but with the dark and gray days outside, we could use use a little pick-me-up. Cue the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards on Thursday night in Santa Monica, Calif., fresh on the heels of Sunday’s Golden Globes, which kicked off awards season.…
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Making Proud Mary: Stylist Tym Wallace Shares His Behind-the-Scenes Secrets for Taraji’s Killer Hair
How dope would your hair look if you had a $10,000 wig budget? And how about an über-talented hairdresser like Tym Wallace scrutinizing your every move via a super-closeup iPhone app for moviemakers? You would be flawless, that’s what. Don’t take my word for it, though; see for yourself when Proud Mary, Taraji P. Henson’s latest…
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Brown Beauty Alert! This Is the Melanated Moment We Didn’t Know We Were Missing This Week
Updated Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, 6:20 p.m. EST: As if we weren’t already jelly enough, Erivo’s team reached out to let us know everyone we missed at the soiree, organized by legendary celebrity event planner Kathy Romero (who has spearheaded high-profile events such as Asahd Khaled’s birthday, Gucci Mane’s wedding and more), along with celebrity…