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2 Mar

James Charles, Tati Westbrook and the Chaos of Cancel

James Charles, Tati Westbrook and the Chaos of Cancel
It began with a video — or was it an Instagram Story promoting vitamins? James Charles and Tati Westbrook — and Jeffree Star, who inserted himself into the fray somewhere along the way in which — have publicly put an end to the virtual maelstrom that moved thousands and thousands. The highly publicized back-and-forth between 20-year-old Charles, who shot to Web stardom in 2016 when CoverGirl named him its first male spokesmodel, and 37-year-old Westbrook, Charles’ mentor who's credited as one in all the primary beauty influencers, centered around a social media post promoting vitamins and mushroomed over allegations of sexual harassment. The exchange took off on May 10 with Westbrook’s “Bye Sister” video and snowballed online for a full nine days...
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19 May

Why Some Dermatologists Wish to Cancel Neosporin

Why Some Dermatologists Wish to Cancel Neosporin
"Put some Windex on it."It is the only line I remember from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Actually, I'm not even entirely sure I've even seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding so, more accurately, it’s the one line I — and anyone who has a lot as an osmotic awareness of My Big Fat Greek Wedding — can say with any confidence definitely comes from that movie. If I recall appropriately (either from the trailer or from just existing in society within the early 2000s), certainly one of the characters had the amusingly misguided belief that a spritz of Windex could cure skin ailments — an assertion so obviously incorrect that you just don’t need a dermatologist to let you...
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20 Dec

Cancel It Joe! Older Americans Are Standing Up And

Cancel It Joe! Older Americans Are Standing Up And
Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images The Debt Collective launched a latest campaign today: “Fifty Over Fifty.” The group’s latest crusade is “a coordinated student debt strike by older Americans to pressure President Biden to broadly cancel student debt,” in line with a press statement shared with ESSENCE. The campaign is strategically timed after their recent debt strike victory against ITT Tech, which resulted within the Department of Education providing 200,000 plus borrowers with almost $4 billion in relief. In accordance with Investopedia, the vast majority of student debt is held by adults over the age of 35. While borrowers under 34 held over $500 billion, their counterparts aged 35-49 and 50-61 owe balances of $622 billion and $281 billion of debt, respectively....
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