clothing
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28 Days of Black Joy: The Art of Chuck Styles
It all started over the past year when like many of us, I made a very hard turn into damn near exclusively buying clothing pieces by and for Black people. While I’ve always been very much into F.U.B.U. as a philosophy (while oddly never buying an actual FUBU apparel) my Buy Black meter hit an…
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Fall Into the 15 Percent Pledge: Gap Inc. Commits to Increasing Equity and Inclusion With a $200,000 Donation
The ask may be 15 percent, but the number of retailers joining Aurora James’ 15 Percent Pledge keeps growing, with names like Sephora, West Elm and Macy’s agreeing to allocate a minimum of 15 percent of their offerings and efforts to Black-owned brands, designers and staff members—a move that has prompted more than a few…
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To Washington, D.C. With Love: The Commes Des Garcons x Nike Foamposite 1 Collaboration Might As Well Come With Mambo Sauce
My first experience with the Nike Air Foamposite One, released in 1997—we called them Penny Hardaways or Penny’s, for short—was on the campus of Spelman College during the summer before my freshman year of college. I watched a dude in one of the summer programs we had running (I was in a program for science,…
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Joe and Kamala, I’m Gon’ Let You Finish, But Nikolas Ajagu Rocking Jordan 1 Diors to Inauguration Brought a Joyous Tear to My Eye
The husband of Meena Harris, Kamala’s niece, had social media buzzing after he was seen wearing some of the most sought after kicks at the inauguration.
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Katt Williams Calls Out Trump, Supports Black Lives Matter in New Supreme Ad
It’s been a chaotic year, and now more than ever, we need someone to come and make us feel a bit better. Thankfully, comedian Katt Williams stepped up to the plate and provided his signature bluntness in a new, six-minute Supreme stand-up style advertisement, where he berates Donald Trump, discusses the importance of Black Lives…
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H&M Group Apologizes Again for Racial Insensitivity, This Time Involving The N-Word and a Beanie
Corporations just can’t seem to stop doing racist things, despite all the flowery statements and promises of change that have come from them this year and other times before. The H&M Group is now apologizing to its employees and the public for a photo it recently discovered in the internal systems of one of its…
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Trump Retweets Photoshopped Image of Nancy Pelosi in a Hijab Because a Muslim Is Obviously More Dangerous Than a Degenerate Wannabe Dictator
There is one joke that never seems to get old with Republican voters; maybe you’ve heard it: It’s the one where everyone pokes fun at people wearing crosses. Wait, you haven’t heard this joke? That’s because people don’t make them. You’d be a douche if you made fun of Christianity but you know what hasn’t…
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Dressed in Dreams: Tanisha C. Ford Writes a Love Letter to Fashion—and Black Womanhood
Somebody/anybody sing a black girl’s song/bring her out to know herself…she doesn’t know the sound of her own voice/her infinite beauty… —Ntozake Shange text If you ask me to share my earliest memory of clothing, in spite of the bevy of beautiful dresses my mother delighted in buying for me as a child (which I…
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Apparently, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Look Poor Enough for Republicans
I’m not sure what conservatives want from Congressmember-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who had the audacity to mention that gentrified D.C. rent was too goddamn high and as such, and because her congressional salary hasn’t kicked in, she and her partner were squirreling away funds to make it work. The story for Ocasio-Cortez became a narrative device…
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'Sadly, It Did Not Make the Mark': André Leon Talley Critiques Paul Manafort's 'Wearable Art'
Real talk: When I grow up, I want to be the type of grande dame fashion editor who wears caftans while holding court on a chaise on some impossibly elegant veranda somewhere, tossing off witty observations and pithy quips. (Who am I kidding? I’m doing that right now—minus the veranda and chaise. Okay, so just…