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Lupita Nyong’o ‘Disappointed’ That Magazine ‘Smoothed’ Her Hair in Cover Photo
One of these days, y’all will finally learn to leave black women’s hair alone. But today is apparently not that day, and Grazia UK is facing criticism from actress and all-around queen Lupita Nyong’o after, she says, the magazine edited out her hair “to fit their notion of what beautiful hair looks like.” Nyong’o shared…
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Solange Announces Hurricane Harvey Benefit Concerts
Solange is making sure she does her own part to help support Houston’s Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts. The Houston native announced a special benefit concert to raise money for victims of the disastrous storm. “I will be doing a special ‘Orion’s Rise’ show in Boston, and ALL proceeds will go towards Hurricane Harvey Relief,” she…
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Black Beauty Is a Real Crowd-Pleaser: Best Pics From Afropunk 2017
Melanin. Color. Texture. Funk. Freedom. Afropunk, the annual music and arts festival going since 2005, is not free anymore, but with all this gorgeousness and headliners like Raphael Saadiq and Solange, SZA and Soul II Soul, Anderson Paak and ThunderCat, any money paid is worth way more than two assholes in a ring. Back in…
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Solange, Pharrell and Friends Highlight Epic 10th Anniversary of the Roots Picnic
More than 10,000 music lovers flocked to Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia Saturday for the annual Roots Picnic. This year’s festival marked the 10th anniversary of the unofficial summer launch party and kicked off Black Music Month. Stars of the past and present came out to celebrate the historic event. Despite the absence of one its…
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Solange Pens a Letter to Her Teenage Self, Talks Being a Teen Mom
Solange is gracing the cover of this month’s issue of Teen Vogue and penned a letter to her teenage self, describing life’s ups and downs and how to survive them. In the letter, which was printed in all lowercase, Solange talked about becoming a mom at 17 and how people would count her out: seventeen…
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Solange Wins 1st Grammy and Shares Frank Ocean’s Grammy Diss
Solange won her first Grammy Sunday night, but unless you were tuned into the Recording Academy’s Twitter account or social media, you probably wouldn’t have known that because the win wasn’t aired. Solange won the Grammy for Best R&B Performance for her song “Cranes in the Sky” from her 2016 album A Seat at the…
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Solange’s A Seat at the Table Inspires Syllabus
Solange Knowles’ celebrated album A Seat at the Table was her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, and it is now being used as the foundation for a course syllabus. According to Solange’s Saint Heron website, Melissa Harris-Perry is one of the scholars at the helm of the project, but young women of…
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The Winners of 2016
Flatly, 2016 as a staff, record label and as a motherf—king crew has collectively sucked. Far too many people have died, and a spoiled, mango-colored racist man surrounded by a bunch of like-minded bigots and sycophants will soon make life hell for many who have survived. However, as draining as this year has felt for…
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You Can’t Touch Solange’s Hair, but You Can Ask to Touch Mine
If you have been natural for any length of time, you have more than likely had someone attempt to touch your hair. Strangers and friends of various races and ages seem to be intrigued by the texture, feel and all-around unexpectedness of black hair. Oftentimes this intrigue is expressed through a stray hand inching its…