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This Black Model May Have Broken Cannes’ Strict No-Nudity Dress Code, But Her Outfit is Turning Every Head…
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Hat Tricks: Looks Like We’re Still in ‘Formation’
Two years after the fact, the flamenco-style chapeau Beyoncé rocked in her iconic 2016 “Formation” video is still turning some famous heads. Last week, Melania Trump made us wonder if she keeps mayo in her bag (probably) when she donned a wide-brimmed white hat designed by French stylist Hervé Pierre to greet the French President…
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NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray Is Disrupting Domestic Violence With a New Initiative
Chirlane McCray, the first lady of New York City, is working to close the gap in support for the majority of domestic violence victims in the city whose abuse goes unreported to law enforcement. On Wednesday McCray, who is also co-chair of the city’s Domestic Violence Task Force and the Commission on Gender Equity, announced…
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Slick With It: Model Slick Woods Talks Money Moves in May’s Glamour Magazine
I’m personally convinced that quiet as it’s kept, the baddest of the baddies must hail from Minneapolis. After all, it’s the birthplace of the Purple One, Yara Shahidi, history-making state Rep. Ilhan Omar, yours truly and the face of Fenty Beauty—no, the other one—model Slick Woods (I mean, that moniker alone sounds like the title…
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Must-See TV: A Day in the Life of Naomi Campbell Is As Glamorous as You Think
We will never not love Naomi Campbell. She can throw a phone or a fantastic party, and we’ll just laugh it off and love her just the same. By turns, she’s a black Barbie come to life and also our fabulous play-cousin-in-our-head from across the pond whose impossibly glamorous life is the stuff fashion-obsessed dreams…
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We Got the Golden Ticket! Glowing Up at Studio Museum in Harlem’s Spring Luncheon
The Studio Museum in Harlem Spring Luncheon is the hot ticket event of the social season for Manhattan’s most powerful and influential black women. I know it’s spring when the #BlackGirlMagic telegraph starts buzzing in celebration of who’s going, who’s sitting with whom and, of course, what everyone’s wearing. Like Chirlane McCray, New York City’s…
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Dressed for Success? This Charter School’s Policies Are Humiliating Its Female Students
As if puberty isn’t humiliating enough, the award-winning Noble Charter Schools network of Chicago was recently accused of instituting what several former teachers call “dehumanizing” policies to monitor their high school students. In addition to boasting high test scores and graduation rates, the schools, which are located in predominantly black and brown neighborhoods, go above…
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Azealia Banks Hates Bath Bombs but Clearly Loves Glitter Bombs, and We Have Questions
Just when we thought Kanye West was going to cause the most confusion this week, Azealia Banks popped up to give us another dose of her special brand of “Huh?” with an “Over/Under” video for Pitchfork as part of the promotional rounds for her new single and bona fide bop, “Anna Wintour.” Banks, who, like…
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Ahead of the Curve: Curvsi Wants You to Love Your Closet
Fun fact: I’m a former eBay addict. Between my late 20s and early 30s, I was an avid shopper and seller on the auction site, scouring it daily for designer deals and vintage gems alike, and garnering a 100 percent rating and any number of useless pieces of clothing in the process. Another fun fact?…
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Comic Relief: Wash Day Captures the Radical Self-Love in a Hair-Care Ritual
When is your “wash day”? Saturday mornings? Sunday afternoons after church? However a black woman wears her hair, the wash-day ritual is one she undoubtedly knows well, with techniques sometimes preserved since childhood, or honed to perfection after starting her natural-hair journey. A group of young female creatives are paying “tribute to the beauty and…