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Forever Fine: Angela Bassett Proves She's Eternally Bae on the Cover of Porter Magazine
Is there anyone more #AgeGoals than Angela Bassett? Twenty-five years after famously sculpting her body into super-toned shape to play music icon Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With It, Bassett’s face remains flawless and her 59-year-old body (she turns 60 in August) is still sleek, muscular, and shown off to perfection as…
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She Got That Glow: Anok Yai Is the Newest Face of Estée Lauder
Barely a week ago, we were applauding the stratospheric rise of model Anok Yai, whose career famously began when the then-college sophomore was photographed by a street-style photographer at Howard University’s 2017 Homecoming celebration. In the months since, Yai has signed with one of the biggest agencies in the world (Next Models), appeared in British…
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Grab Your Girls and Celebrate Your Curls: CurlFest Returns to Brooklyn This Saturday!
New York naturalistas, where you at? If you’re a devoted member of #TeamNatural, you’re hopefully already familiar with the experiential marketing group known as the Curly Girl Collective, and if you live in the New York City tri-state area, this is the weekend to take part in the largest celebration of natural hair in the…
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Level Up: The Latest Lyst Index Indicates That Black Influence Is Finally Being Recognized
Keep on risin’ to the top! Today, global fashion search platform Lyst released its second 2018 installment of The Lyst Index, its quarterly report ranking the fashion industry’s most in-demand labels and products. Analyzing the online shopping habits of over 5 million shoppers monthly spanning approximately 12,000 global retailers and labels, Lyst compiled their results…
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Burberry Burning? British Retailer Reportedly Torched Over $33 Million of Unsold Merchandise
Burberry, baby. What is you doing? Understandably, high-end brands want to keep their cache (and fashion plagiarism is a very real thing), but the British luxury retailer Burberry has taken protecting their brand to new extremes, reportedly burning over $33 million in unsold merchandise rather than sell it at discount or donate it. This is…
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New Jersey Wawa Mistakes Black Woman for Shoplifter Because of Her Big Afro
There is only one black woman in the whole of America walking around with a big ass afro. At least, that’s what one Williamstown, N.J., Wawa employee seems to think, after stepping into a heaping pile of shit for accusing a black woman of shoplifting, all because a suspect who had been previously thrown out…
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Whose Hand is This? Korean Company Gets Inclusivity Wrong with a Blackface Manicure
When keeping it inclusive goes wrong: popular Korean beauty and fashion company Stylenanda’s heart was likely in the right place when it attempted to show diversity in a nail polish ad by placing a brown hand next to a much paler one. But something was a little … off. If you’re still guessing what’s wrong…
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For the Kulture: Cardi B's Little Princess Has a Crib Fit for a Queen
Apparently, nothing’s too good for rap royalty’s newest little princess, including a custom-made crib topped with a crown, which Cardi B showed off to her Instagram fans on Thursday. The elaborately carved and gilded gold-and-white oval crib—with a whimsical gold and white polka-dotted mattress cover—was created by custom furniture and decor company Kapesh Designs and…
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Everything You Missed At The ESPYs
Like any award show, the ESPYs was filled with some amazing and some not so amazing looks. The award show, hosted by ESPN, took place in Los Angeles with Danica Patrick as host of the event’s 26th edition—the first women to serve the role. Many deserving athletes took home awards in various categories such as…
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Harlem Renaissance: Gucci-Dapper Dan Goes Live!
We’ve been buzzing about the renaissance of the Harlem-based designer known as Dapper Dan so long, it’s hard to believe that his much-anticipated collaboration with former nemesis Gucci only launched this week. After all, we’ve been seeing teases for months: in Beyoncé’s tour wardrobe, on any number of red carpets, and most recently, on both…