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Why Juneteenth is a Celebration of Hope
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
For African Americans, June 19th has long been a day of
remembrance and affirmation. Now, more than 150 years later, there’s a
nation-wide movement for observance.
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 1:44 p.m. on June 17 to indicate that President Biden signed the law designating June 19 as the Juneteenth national holiday.
On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 1:44 p.m. on June 17 to indicate that President Biden signed the law designating June 19 as the Juneteenth national holiday.
On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
The reality though was that the Emancipation did not end slavery. Freedom for many would be won state by state in battles across the remnants of the Confederacy, with the help of nearly 200,000 Black soldiers who joined in the Union effort after Lincoln’s proclamation.
Juneteenth! How the Official Flag was Chosen
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Juneteenth! How the Official Flag was Chosen
The red, white, and blue Juneteenth flag commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., which came over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
fashion
Some white execs may find his work 'too black.' But Lee Daniels' empire is expanding
(LA Times) If you’ve had trouble tracking down Lee Daniels in the last week or so, there’s no need to worry. He’s fine.
Less than a year after the release of his film "The United States vs. Billie Holliday" which was a steady presence during awards season, the acclaimed filmmaker behind “Monster’s Ball,” “Precious,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butle
(LA Times) If you’ve had trouble tracking down Lee Daniels in the last week or so, there’s no need to worry. He’s fine.
Less than a year after the release of his film "The United States vs. Billie Holliday" which was a steady presence during awards season, the acclaimed filmmaker behind “Monster’s Ball,” “Precious,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” and the over-the-top musical drama "Empire" is taking a break. Or at least that was his plan. (Photo Kent Nishimura)
The Most Dramatic NYFW Venue? LaQuan Smith Just Booked the Empire State Building
(VOGUE) In-person fashion shows will start again in two weeks, with New York kicking off on September 7. Even with the excitement of seeing clothing in the round, some designers are scaling back, sizing down, and playing it safe. But not LaQuan Smith, who is going all the way up with a show at the Empire State Building. The first-ever sho
(VOGUE) In-person fashion shows will start again in two weeks, with New York kicking off on September 7. Even with the excitement of seeing clothing in the round, some designers are scaling back, sizing down, and playing it safe. But not LaQuan Smith, who is going all the way up with a show at the Empire State Building. The first-ever show to take place in the 90-year-old landmark, Smith’s presentation will shut down the famous skyscraper for the entire day, utilizing space from the ground level to the observation deck. (Photo Sean Gomes)
These Herbalist are Helping Black Women Heal - One TikTok At A Time
These Herbalist are Helping Black Women Heal - One TikTok At A Time
(Refinery29) According to the latest TikTok trends, herbalism is the new glow-up hack. For decades, herbalists have used plants for healing purposes and to study the impact of mixing different herbs on the body. Today, herbalism has gained traction as more and more people, especially Black herbalists on TikTok, share testimonies of herba
(Refinery29) According to the latest TikTok trends, herbalism is the new glow-up hack. For decades, herbalists have used plants for healing purposes and to study the impact of mixing different herbs on the body. Today, herbalism has gained traction as more and more people, especially Black herbalists on TikTok, share testimonies of herbalism’s non-toxic healing abilities. (Photo TikTok)
national hispanic history month 9/15 - 10/15
Why Hispanic Heritage Month Begins in the Middle of September
Photo Credit: Detail of Hispanic Heritage Select Photos David Valdez
(CNN) September 15, 2021 Rather than starting at the beginning of September, Hispanic Heritage Month takes place over 30 days starting on the 15th -- a nod to the anniversaries of national independence for a number of Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua all recognize September 15 as the date of their independence, while Mexico's independence is celebrated September 16 and Chile celebrates its independence September 18. Learn More
Trap Street (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)
Will Cordeiro's Trap Street travels a shifting landscape. Keenly observed deserts, woods, highways, seaside enclaves, mountainsides, and motels parade in an expansive sweep of the natural and the manmade, often returning to inhabited settings and navigating spirited-to-tense family and social situations. Read More
NATIONAL HISPANIC HISTORY MONTH 9/15 - 10/15
Why Hispanic Heritage Month Begins in the Middle of September
(CNN) September 15, 2021 Rather than starting at the beginning of September, Hispanic Heritage Month takes place over 30 days starting on the 15th -- a nod to the anniversaries of national independence for a number of Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua all recognize September 15 as the date of their independence, while Mexico's independence is celebrated September 16 and Chile celebrates its independence September 18. Learn More
the streets are always watching
Joan Smalls tells the Fashion Industry to "Do Better"
Joan Smalls made a passionate plea to the fashion industry.
Essence: Best Street Style
When Attending an Essence Event, There are no Fashion Rules Except to Come Being Authentically YOU.
What MUST Always Happen
What MUST Always Happen
Racial and Gender Diversity Increase, Size and Age Inclusivity Drop at New York Fashion Week Spring 2021
EXCLUSIVELY FROM WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY
Beyoncé's ivy PARK Capsule WITH Peloton
(Photo: Ivy Park) October 22, 2021
Beyoncé’s Adidas x Ivy Park collection has teamed with Peloton on their first capsule collection of apparel and footwear that will be released on Nov. 10th.
The two have been working together for a year.
(Variety) Taraji P. Henson
Talks Exclusively for Tribeca Film Festival and Chanel’s Women’s Filmmaker Program about Inclusion
‘You Don’t Know to Dream It if You Don’t See It’
October 12, 2021 Photo Credit: Getty Images The seventh annual Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program kicks off today with a hybrid edition featuring both virtual and in-person events.
The three-day event allows program finalists working on five films to participate in one-on-one mentorship and masterclasses focused on script-to-screen development, music composition, costume design, producing and directing. Read More and watch the video
Lifestyles & Culture
bell hooks' death is a call to action
The porn trauma Billie Eilish experienced shows preteens need better sexual literacy
Photo: Karjean Levine-GettyImages | Marcie Bianco-NBCNews
December 21, 2021
And why exposing the strictures of the dynamic and intersecting systems of domination was only the start of her vision, not the endgame.
“What is our lesson in this moment? What does bell hooks’ death enjoin us to do?”
These were the questions I asked myself as I walked circles around the Stanford University Bookstore on Wednesday, just hours after reading of hooks’ passing, at the age of 69, from end-stage renal failure. Read More
The porn trauma Billie Eilish experienced shows preteens need better sexual literacy
The porn trauma Billie Eilish experienced shows preteens need better sexual literacy
Photo: Theo Wargo -GettyImages | Patricia Grisafi-NBCNews
December 21, 2021
Porn literacy as part of sex education can help young people identify harmful situations and navigate topics like consent.
In college, I was a Cool Girl — for a bit. I wasn’t hot, but I was skinny. I wore low-rise Diesel jeans to art history lectures. I drank tequila from the bottle at late-night parties. When my male friends talked about porn, I laughed along. I was routinely praised for being “chill” and “fun.” Read More
New 'West Side Story' by Steven Spielberg lessens racism in the original, but not enough
Photo: GettyImages I Luisita Lopez Torregrosa -NBCNews
December 21, 2021
When I saw the depiction of Puerto Rico in the first version, I was embarrassed. Ignorance, banality and violence define the Puerto Rican characters this time, too.
Decades ago, on my first visit to New York City, we drove past multiple blocks of brown brick tenements where boys huddled in corners, smoking and whistling at girls walking by, while older men in undershirts and scuffed panama hats puffed on cigars and played dominoes. These were my paisanos, fellow Puerto Ricans, and this was East Harlem. Read More
The online dating beauty filter trap
Photo: Michelle Rohn-NBCNews | Hanna Kozlowska -NBCNews
December 21, 2021
These tools will make you look more like the widely admired beauty ideal. But if you use them, you could be disappointing everyone — including yourself.
Dating coach Eric Resnick recently had a client send him photos she wanted to use for her dating app profile. The pictures were labeled “FaceApp 1,” “FaceApp 2” and “FaceApp 3,” revealing the client treated them with a photo-editing app that lets you smooth out your wrinkles, fill in your hairline or chisel your cheekbones. Read More
In Conversation With Two Indigenous Women Fighting for the Future of the Amazon—And the Planet
Photo: Courtesy of Marie Jacquemin I Chantal James-Vogue December 20, 2021
“There is no way to separate the fight for Indigenous rights from the fight for environmental rights, because we see ourselves as being the land itself. We are part of the earth and everything that affects the earth directly affects us.” -Sônia Guajajara. Read More
The Irony of British-Inspired Tea Parlors in New York City
Photo: Bubi Canal-TheNewYorker I David Kortava-TheNewYorker December 20, 2021
It is an irony of history, if not an instance of cosmic feminist karma, that the best British-inspired tea parlors in New York City—among them Tea & Sympathy, Lady Mendl’s, and Brooklyn High Low—are women-owned establishments. From 1657, when tea first became available in London’... Read More
Thousands of Afghan refugees on U.S. bases wait for Americans to welcome them home
Photo: Spc. Froylan Grimaldo /7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment-NBCNews I Khaled Hosseini-NBCNews
December 21, 2021
An American host helped my family thrive after we escaped from Afghanistan. Now a new program lets the next generation of Americans do the same.
It began when I was 15, in Paris, on a cold December night in 1979. We were having dinner at our apartment with the family of a colleague of my father’s from the Afghan Embassy, where my father was finishing out the balance of his four-year diplomatic posting. A news break on the television interrupted dinner, and suddenly the table fell silent as we watched images of Soviet tanks rolling along dusty Afghan roads. Read More
Facebook Knows Instagram is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
Photo: Getty Images (WSJ) September 14, 2021
Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public.
About a year ago, teenager Anastasia Vlasova (not pictured above) started seeing a therapist. She had developed an eating disorder, and had a clear idea of what led to it: her time on Instagram.
She joined the platform at 13, and eventually was spending three hours a day entranced by the seemingly perfect lives and bodies of the fitness influencers who posted on the app.
“When I went on Instagram, all I saw were images of chiseled bodies, perfect abs and women doing 100 burpees in 10 minutes,” said Ms. Vlasova, now 18, who lives in Reston, Va. Read More
How 9/11 Changed Architecture
How 9/11 Changed Architecture
Photo: Getty Images (WSJ) September 9, 2021
The televised destruction of the World Trade Center gave the public a shock tutorial on the nature of a building: the deft structural legerdemain that holds it up, its essential place in the image of a city (which can be as essential as a nose to a face), its insolent strength and its heartbreaking fragility. One had naturally assumed that two 110-story towers were as solid and immutable as a cliff. And yet before our eyes they evaporated into a cloud of smoke and dust.
All this could not but help affect architecture, but exactly how?
photo: getty images
Michelle Wu is Boston's First Female, Asian-American Mayor
Vogue November 3, 2021 The city of Boston has had a somewhat dubious reputation when it comes to diversity, but on Tuesday, the election of Michelle Wu—a lawyer, City Council member, and the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants—as mayor sent a meaningful message about what kind of future the city hopes to create. “From every corner of our city, Boston has spoken. We are ready to meet this moment. We are ready to become a Boston for everyone,” said Wu on Tuesday night.
This mayoral election in Boston differed greatly from those of years past. Acting mayor Kim Janey, who took over from over from Marty Walsh when he was tapped to act as President Joe Biden’s Labor secretary in January, had vied for the elected position but in September failed to secure a final slot to compete against Wu. Although Janey, a Black woman, was briefly Boston’s first female mayor of color, Wu holds the distinction of being the first Asian-American woman elected to the position. Wu’s rival in Tuesday's mayoral race, Annissa Essaibi George conceded early yesterday. Read More
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WHY JUNETEENTH IS A CELEBRATION OF HOPE
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
For African Americans, June 19th has long been a day of remembrance and affirmation. Now, more than 150 years later, there’s a nation-wide movement for observance.
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 1:44 p.m. on June 17 to indicate that President Biden signed the law designating June 19 as the Juneteenth national holiday.
On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 1:44 p.m. on June 17 to indicate that President Biden signed the law designating June 19 as the Juneteenth national holiday.
On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
The reality though was that the Emancipation did not end slavery. Freedom for many would be won state by state in battles across the remnants of the Confederacy, with the help of nearly 200,000 Black soldiers who joined in the Union effort after Lincoln’s proclamation.
Juneteenth! How the Official Flag was Chosen
Why schools haven't taught about junteenth, and why they should
Juneteenth! How the Official Flag was Chosen
The red, white, and blue Juneteenth flag commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., which came over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
By Rukmini Callimachi
Lost Lives, Lost Culture:
The Forgotten History of Indigenous Native Americans. Thousands of Native Americans children attended U.S. boarding schools designed to "civilize the savage." Many died. Many who lived are reclaiming their identity....
Photo Tiffany
A Brief History of the Iconic Tiffany Diamond
(WWD) Beyoncé is one of four women who’ve worn Tiffany & Co.’s iconic 128.54-carat yellow diamond. The Tiffany Diamond is one of the fine jeweler’s oldest and most recognizable pieces, and now the iconic piece is getting newfound attention in the brand’s latest ad campaign with new faces Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Read More
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