Us Weekly Wants the World to Know Hoop Earrings Are Back, and Black Women Are Like, ‘They Never Left’

Attention, ladies and gentlemen: Hoop earrings are back! Sure, you may be sitting in your cubicle at work, rocking the same pair you’ve worn since 1994, but never mind all that. Suggested Reading The Best, Black TV Shows, Movies to Stream on AppleTV+ Why NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Tried To Play The Black Card…Literally…

Attention, ladies and gentlemen: Hoop earrings are back! Sure, you may be sitting in your cubicle at work, rocking the same pair you’ve worn since 1994, but never mind all that.

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It doesn’t matter, because we have celebrities like these rocking them:

Kendall Jenner

Adriana Lima

And of course, nothing says a resurgence of fashion more than Bella and Gigi Hadid wearing something.

It doesn’t matter that we have icons like Jody Watley, who proves that they never left:

https://twitter.com/TeeJaines/status/872920259585507329
https://twitter.com/jodywatley/status/872922820698750976

Now, Us Weekly may have done a little Columbusing, but it did add Joan Smalls to its tweet—I’m assuming to buffer the pushback from social media. But it still got called out:

https://twitter.com/YearOfDaBoss/status/873023751159414784
https://twitter.com/jazsayzso/status/873036242564206593
https://twitter.com/KaylaSoBoojie/status/873091853934968832
https://twitter.com/mrsnasirjones/status/873163545600458755

I’m sure there’s someone out there who’d call these women ghetto or hood rats, while they sing the praises of the Hadid sisters for being so fashion forward.

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