Spotting your first gray hair in your 20s can feel like a curveball. One day it's a single silver strand; a few months later, a few more appear. While it is easy to chalk it up to stress or bad luck, the science behind premature graying is far more layered and more manageable than most…
There is a period at the end of DIARRABLU. And it is not a typo, It is a declaration. When Diarra Bousso named her brand back in 2013, she made a deliberate choice to do something, in her own words, rebellious. She was an artist and a mathematician, and she was done pretending those two…
Soap operas have always been in the business of making audiences want things the wardrobe, the lifestyle, the sense of effortless elegance that unfolds on screen every afternoon. Since the genre's peak decades, daytime television has quietly functioned as its own kind of runway, building a visual language of aspiration that viewers did not just…
Latto is 27, pregnant with her first child, and apparently surrounded by people who take gifting seriously. The rapper posted a video to social media showing off the items her celebrity friends sent ahead of her baby's arrival, and the collection landed with the kind of weight that gets screenshots taken. She captioned the video…
The Grammy-winning artist opens up about her years-long battle with Borderline Personality Disorder — and what healing has really looked like
For years, Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini — the artist the world knows as Doja Cat — has performed behind a curtain of reinvention, trading one persona for another with seemingly effortless flair. But in…
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with dating as a Black woman. It sits somewhere between the pressure to be strong and the quiet longing to be held. Between navigating double standards and refusing to let them win. Between wanting love and not wanting to lose yourself chasing it.
None of that…
Cardi B has had enough. The Grammy Award-winning rapper took to Instagram Live this week to announce that her American Express card had been stolen and used for more than $60,000 in fraudulent purchases, and that the people responsible should start preparing for the consequences.
The card went missing approximately two weeks ago. By the…
Rap's soon-to-be big mama got spoiled by her circle — and she wants everyone to know it
When Latto decided to document the aftermath of her cheetah-themed baby shower, she did not hold back. The 27-year-old Atlanta rapper took to Instagram on Wednesday to share a gleeful, sped-up video of herself — visibly and beautifully…
There's a version of a celebrity hosting debut that plays it safe. Marsai Martin did not take that version. On March 12, the 21-year-old actress stepped onto the stage at the Fairmount Ballroom in Los Angeles for the 19th annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards and delivered a performance that felt less like a…
Is the romance with Timothée Chalamet really over — or is something else going on entirely?
Just when Hollywood thought it had the Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet love story figured out, a single photograph flipped the entire narrative on its head. The internet has been in full detective mode ever since, and honestly, the…

