Issa Rae
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Power to the People! By Popular Demand, CoverGirl Brings 40 More Shades to the Drugstore Aisle
At this point, we’re basically writing one of these posts once a week, but suffice to say the 40-shade Fenty effect has entirely changed the makeup game. Now, meeting your perfect foundation match has gotten even more frugal; last month, CoverGirl released their TruBlend Matte Made liquid foundation ($8.44–$11.49) in the now-requisite 40 shades—but rather…
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Greatest American Shero: Tarana Burke Takes on Cannes and the Ad Industry Alongside Gloria Steinem
#MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke never ceases to amaze, and last week, she amazed the advertising crowd gathered for the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, appearing alongside fellow feminist icon Gloria Steinem for global marketing organization Interpublic Group’s (IPG) eighth annual Women’s Breakfast. IPG Chairman and CEO announced the event via press release,…
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Is the Mainstream Ready for 4c? Mane Traces the Evolution of Natural Hair On-Screen
Online media company NowThis turned heads at the top of 2018 with the launch of Mane, a web series focusing on the intersection between hair and culture. On Tuesday, Mane kicked off its second season with a closer look at how the presentation of naturally textured black hair has evolved on-screen, tracing the current impact…
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Now Switch! Insecure Will Cover Masculinity, Atlanta Will Focus on Women, in Upcoming Seasons
Regardless of our dating or even sexual preferences, black men and black women are inextricably tied—by history, by culture, by blood, even by disdain and death at the hands of law enforcement. And so, in what is an interesting twist of fate, it looks like the upcoming seasons of two remarkable shows, one created by…
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Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Issa Rae: How the CFDA Awards Host Rocked a Flawless Red-Carpet Face
Call us obsessed, but we can never seem to get enough of Issa Rae’s seemingly endless array of stunning red-carpet looks. The star’s hosting gig at Monday night’s CFDA Awards provided yet another opportunity for us to gawk at her flawlessly executed face and fashion sense, which is now almost in another stratosphere from the…
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No 2018 CFDA Award Wins for Black Designers (but We Still Slayed the ‘Oscars of Fashion’)
We love fashion, but like most great love affairs, it occasionally disappoints. Monday night at the 2018 CFDA Fashion Awards was one such occasion, when, despite an unusually high number of nominations for black designers—four designers in three of the four categories—none were awarded what is widely considered to be an “Oscar of Fashion.” The…
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We’re Rooting for Everybody Black: Who Will Win on Fashion’s Biggest Night?
On Monday, fashion’s best and brightest will gather at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City to celebrate the 37th annual Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards. Dubbed the “Oscars of Fashion,” the CFDAs are the highest honors awarded in the American fashion industry, recognizing outstanding achievements in design, journalism, personal style and positive…
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Did I Do That? Issa Rae Dresses Up as Our ’90s Faves for GQ—and It’s Pure Comedy
Urkel. Moesha. The Fresh Prince. If you were a kid in the 1990s, at least one or all of the above were likely among your faves. We’re not sure if Issa Rae, who was born in 1985, grew up on these classic characters, but it sure gave us a laugh to see her dress up…
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Met Gala 2018: Did Vogue Catch Your Fave Live on Camera?
Go down a wormhole, but make it fashion. This was pretty much how I spent Tuesday night, watching video after video on Vogue’s YouTube channel, where all of our Met Gala faves were featured talking fashion, true confessions, and their takes on the night’s theme, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Let’s start with…
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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…