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All About Eve, Part 2: We’ve Got the Goods on Her Gorgeous Grammys Look!
Glow Up gang, you asked, and we’ve got answers! Some great moments deserve a sequel, and we’ve therefore done some deep investigative journalism to get the details on our favorite look of Grammy night 2018. As previously posted, Eve was our hands-down winner of this year’s awards ceremony, despite not being nominated this year (sorry,…
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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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3rd Time’s the Charm: Designer Brandon Maxwell Believes in #BlackGirlMagic
How about three delicious scoops of #BlackGirlMagic to sweeten your day? Designer Brandon Maxwell’s newly launched Spring/Summer 2018 advertising campaign, starring British model Jourdan Dunn and her surprise date, is a follow-up to his two previous and equally stunning campaign videos featuring models Riley Montana and Joan Smalls. Gorgeous clothes, perfect bodies and pretty faces…
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Yara Shahidi Performing Assata Shakur Is More #BlackGirlMagic Than Our Hearts Can Stand
As media partners for the Blackout for Human Rights-produced MLK Now event at New York City’s Riverside Church on Monday, The Root found a lot to be inspired by this Martin Luther King Day. But at The Glow Up, we were pleasantly surprised to also find #BlackGirlMagic in full effect. From actress Lupita Nyong’o reciting…
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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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Calling Professional Black Girls Everywhere! Ready for a Road Trip?
“Professional Black Girl is, like, my favorite thing that I didn’t plan to do.” Dr. Yaba Blay is talking about her self-produced sleeper-hit video series, Professional Black Girl, which quietly rocked our worlds when it debuted in fall 2016. The 14-episode first season was an exploration of what Blay calls “black-girl culture”—in all its regular,…
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Wait Till I Get My Money Right: The Budgetnista’s Anti-Broke Cure for 2018
Tiffany Aliche, aka “the Budgetnista,” lives an all-cash life: Houses, cars, vacations—all paid for in cash. This preschool teacher-turned-women’s financial educator knows that everything you need to know about how to manage your money, you did not learn in kindergarten. She is the author of the Amazon No. 1 best-selling book The One Week Budget:…
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How to Get Away With Murdering the Red Carpet: We Still Haven’t Gotten Over Viola Davis at the Golden Globes
We seriously thought the 2018 Golden Globes would be no biggie; a whole gang of black outfits on not enough black people? Easy peasy. And then Viola Davis happened, and worlds were ROCKED. For years now, she’s been teasing us on the red carpet, occasionally giving us amazing natural-hair moments that make us wonder why…
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It’s All Love! We’re in Love With Serena Williams’ Slamming February Vogue Cover (With Beautiful Baby Alexis Olympia!)
Power. For me, that word defines Serena Williams. I love her body—it’s invincible. I also love that none of her seemingly superhuman attributes were given to her or easily attained. Everything she has, she earned, one drop of sweat at a time. She and big sister Venus were their own mini-civil-rights movement as they fought…
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Black, Bookish and Beautiful: This All-Black, All-Female Publishing Team Is Ensuring That Authors of Color Get Their Shine
Publishing is notoriously rough terrain for authors of color. Jack Jones Literary Arts—an all-black, all-female firm—is seeking to change that, committing to publishing and promoting books by writers who have traditionally been pushed to the margins of a historically white and male-dominated industry. Founded by Kima Jones in 2015, Jack Jones Literary Arts boasts an…