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Clippers tightened fades. Oils nourished tresses. And conversations about life, liberty and justice filled the air. Barbershops and hair salons have always been spaces where Black entrepreneurship boomed, offering services that cultivated looks and fostered community. Barbershops and beauty parlors became a natural gathering place to stay connected to culture and ideas. The Southampton African […]
She is powerful, majestic and iconic. In the comics, her white hair, contrasted with her dark skin and royal features, symbolizes her connection to her mother country, her heritage and her legacy. Fans have waited patiently to see someone in the role who embodies all the traits they’ve come to love as depicted in comic […]
For Black Business Month, EBONY is highlighting the Black-owned businesses creating, preserving and investing in their communities. For Janae D. Green, that work happens through A Great Day in South LA, a cultural immersion tour celebrating the history, art and culture of Los Angeles’ Black communities. Founded in December 2023, the business is an extension […]
The celebrity scene is always packed, with stars out in full force. Here’s where they walk the carpet, light up the scene, and keep the energy on an all-time high. Laverne Cox Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival On August 9 at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Laverne Cox joined host and cultural […]
Summer is winding down, but nobody seems particularly interested in dressing like it. With a few good weekends left before September arrives and Fashion Month takes over our collective consciousness, Black creatives are still outside and, more importantly, still getting dressed. This week’s best looks feel like a reminder that late-summer style doesn’t need a […]
Another week, another reason to make a little more room on the top shelf. This week’s beauty drops are less about reinventing your entire routine and more about making the one you already have work a little harder, from smarter hydration and lash-and-brow growth to a blush that sticks around long after you wash your […]
Halle Berry has been that girl since she was named Miss Ohio 1986 and first runner-up in that year’s national Miss USA competition. Now, 40 years later, on August 14, the Oscar-winning star, producer, director and activist is celebrating her 60th birthday. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Halle Berry (@halleberry) It’s […]
When Chef Kristen Ashley, the founder of Chicago’s Cleo’s Southern Cuisine, received a text from her cousin on a Monday morning, she didn’t realize her business would never be the same. A link. Keith Lee had posted his review. She had heard that he had come by, but there was no way that she could […]
In the year of the American semiquincentennial, Philadelphia situates itself as an origin site, lending itself to the national imagination through the arts spaces that define the city. In this context, there was a kindredness in encountering the Barnes Foundation’s Freedom Dreams the same weekend as the fifteenth BlackStar Film Festival, comprising four days devoted […]
There is something deeply satisfying about a drugstore beauty run. You walk in for toothpaste and somehow emerge 45 minutes later with a new lip product, body scrub, mascara and enough skincare to convince yourself you have entered a new era. This month, that particular form of retail therapy comes with a little financial justification. […]