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12 Sep

As Black Women, Our Brilliance Comes From Our Sisterhood

As Black Women, Our Brilliance Comes From Our Sisterhood
Takirra Winfield Dixon, Dr. Uché Blackstock, LaTosha Brown and Minda Harts with Nikki Porcher and Jo-Ná Williams speak onstage throughout the 2022 Essence Festival of Culture on the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 1, 2022 in Latest Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Essence) “How ya doing, sis?” That check-in is typically all we'd like as Black women to get through the day. It’s hardly that others genuinely ask us how we’re doing. The truth is, the loudest “how are yous” may be essentially the most disingenuous because they’re just empty salutations from individuals who don’t really know – or care to know – what we experience. Most persons are focused on what they will take from us...
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12 Sep

Our Honest Review of KVD Vegan Beauty’s Reformulated Liquid

Our Honest Review of KVD Vegan Beauty’s Reformulated Liquid
There are various ways to explain beauty products — decent, good, great, and amazing are only a couple of — but arguably the last word honor (besides being named an Allure Better of Beauty winner) is when a product is heralded as a cult classic. It is not a title bestowed on many beauty products, reserved just for those special ones that retain their popularity yr after yr after yr. They're the antithesis of the viral trend category that seems to dominate our screens increasingly often. However the ever-moving cycle and constant innovation of the sweetness industry signifies that a lot of these fan favorites will undergo reformulations or, even worse, be discontinued — to the frustration of many fans. It's...
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12 Sep

Bill Cunningham Recent York | Full Documentary Movie

Bill Cunningham Recent York | Full Documentary Movie
“All of us dress for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in query is 80+ Recent York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For many years, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear within the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everybody in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of labor is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham Recent York is a fragile, funny and infrequently poignant portrait of a...
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