halloween
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Like Whiteness for Chocolate: Teacher Suspended for Dressing Up as Rapper Common, Complete With Blackface
Just when you thought blackface had been relegated to old college yearbooks, a California teacher provided the latest proof of white superiority—at least in the field of “trying it”—after he wore blackface in the classroom to buttress the bona fides of his Halloween costume. On Oct. 31, Milpitas High School teacher David Carter decided to…
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Yes, We're Stalking Celebrities on Social This Halloween (So You Don’t Have To)
Is Halloween The Glow Up’s favorite holiday? Well, we do love to play dress-up, so we’ll let you deduce that for yourselves. But we also love watching other people play dress-up, which is why we spend an ample amount of our time each Halloween week checking out how celebrities celebrate the holiday. This year, they…
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Comparing the 2020 Presidential ‘Candydates’ to Halloween Treats
It’s Halloween so we thought we’d do something fun. But then, Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton strictly forbade me from dressing as Megan Thee Stallion and having a twerk-off against Monique Judge who, of course, dressed as Cardi B. Once that was out of the question, we decided to compare each one of the presidential candidates to…
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Hell Houses Have No Place in Christianity
When I was 10, I was forced to give my life to Christ. As a kid, my mother was a devoutly religious woman (she would not even let me dress up for Halloween), so I was shocked when she told me I was going to go to what she called a “Hell House.” I was…
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All We Want This Halloween Is to Age Like Missy Elliott
Yeah, yeah…we know there’s no such thing as Halloween wishes (or the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown), but if we could cash in all the fun-sized candy for one wish this spooky holiday, it’d be to age as effortlessly as Missy Elliott seems to be doing (or Gabrielle Union, but we digress). The legendary rapper and…
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California Love: Gabrielle Union's Costumed Birthday Bash Took Us to Our Happy Place
California knows how to party—and when your birthday falls two days before Halloween, it’s bound to be a costume party. In celebration of her family’s recent relocation of their primary residence to Los Angeles, Gabrielle Union jumped in the way-back machine to bring us back to a happier time and place, California-style. Yes, we know…
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Yeah, I Think I Hate Halloween
On the “Things I Happen To Hate” spectrum—which, unfortunately, seems to be lengthening as I age—Halloween is nowhere near the pinnacle. In fact, it is a basement/replacement-level hate, down there with beets and “black Republican male haircuts”—acceptably hateable things that aren’t worth the bandwidth necessary for an active antipathy. My Halloween hate exists at the…
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The Johnsons, Untethered: Black-ish Is Putting a Terrifying Twist on Halloween 2019
No, we don’t mean a reprisal of their genius Jackson 5 family costume (above). This year, the fictional family we know and love as the Johnsons are taking an eerily familiar approach to the group costume, revisiting perhaps the most terrifying film of the year—and one of the blackest. That’s right: the Black-ish clan is…
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‘Black Children Hung By A Rope’: White Artist Who Put Up Racially Offensive Artwork Resigns From Brooklyn Art Studio
I’m all for works of art being subjective but this so-called artist maybe should’ve re-thunk this particular creation. And most definitely its location. Daniela “Dany” Rose, who posted cutouts of brown paper dolls that appeared to be hanging by their necks and feet from strings, has resigned from the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based art studio she co-founded.…
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Halloween, but Make It Igor: Tyler, The Creator Gets Into the Costume Game
It’s no secret that Tyler, The Creator likes to play dress-up; after all, the musician is also a designer, as evidenced by his subversively preppy GOLF label. And earlier this year, Tyler took it to the next level with the introduction of alter ego Igor, the platinum-bobbed crooner he debuted in May’s “Earfquake” video. Since…