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23 May

Brown Sugar Babe’s Maekaeda Gibbons Is Redefining Luxury Body

Brown Sugar Babe’s Maekaeda Gibbons Is Redefining Luxury Body
When you’ve spent any time on #PerfumeTok, then likelihood is you’ve come across one of the vital lauded body oil brands — Brown Sugar Babe.  The brand, which began as a hobby for making fragrances, has morphed into body scrubs and oils which have literally had the web in shambles — in the easiest way possible. We now have Maekaeda Gibbons to thank for that. She began concocting body care recipes out of her Atlanta home, and although Gibbons didn't comprehend it on the time, her fascination for creating recent (and inspired) scents and discovering her connection to fragrance would propel her to put the inspiration for a complete body care brand. Family and friends began asking for the formulas, and eventually,...
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19 Dec

OWN Sets Premiere Date For The Final Season Of

OWN Sets Premiere Date For The Final Season Of
Photo By: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic The seventh and final season for OWN’s critically-acclaimed series Queen Sugar will return on September 6. Based on Deadline, this season will feature direction from an all-woman team. Along with the the show’s creator and executive producer Ava DuVernay, season 7’s directors may also include Kat Candler, Stacey Muhammad, showrunner Shaz Bennett, Patricia Cardoso, Aurora Guerrero, and DeMane Davis. Queen Sugar tells the story of three siblings in rural Louisiana who must cope with the aftermath of their father’s death and their inheritance of his massive sugarcane farm. DuVernay’s series accommodates themes of racial profiling, slavery in America and its flawed criminal justice system, together with other struggles faced by Black people on this country. “To all the things, there...
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9 Dec

Sanaa Lathan Reflects On ‘Brown Sugar’ For The Film’s

Sanaa Lathan Reflects On ‘Brown Sugar’ For The Film’s
Sanaa Lathan almost didn’t do Brown Sugar. It was the summer of 2000 and she or he was poised to perform in Recent York’s Shakespeare within the Park, a free, annual theatrical production. The play was a dream of hers and she or he wasn’t sure that Sugar, a cult classic that turns 20 today, had a robust enough script. The film industry was also revving up for a strike that will follow the longest Hollywood work stoppage on record. So Lathan selected Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ and went on about her business.   Things modified when Sugar’s script was cleaned up, the strike didn’t occur and production was pushed back. Lathan solemnly recalls filming within the months following 9/11. “I remember...
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25 Nov

OWN Sets Premiere Date For The Final Season Of

OWN Sets Premiere Date For The Final Season Of
Queen Sugar Photo By: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Queen Sugar The seventh and final season for OWN’s critically-acclaimed series Queen Sugar will return on September 6. In response to Deadline, this season will feature direction from an all-woman team. Along with the the show’s creator and executive producer Ava DuVernay, season 7’s directors can even include Kat Candler, Stacey Muhammad, showrunner Shaz Bennett, Patricia Cardoso, Aurora Guerrero, and DeMane Davis. Queen Sugar tells the story of three siblings in rural Louisiana who must cope with the aftermath of their father’s death and their inheritance of his massive sugarcane farm. DuVernay’s series comprises themes of racial profiling, slavery in America and its flawed criminal justice system, together with other struggles faced by Black people on this country. “To...
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