For most of her adult life, Mariah Carey was her career. The five-octave range, the record-breaking singles, the carefully constructed persona that sold out arenas across three decades. A family, she had long maintained, was never part of the plan.
Then, on April 30, 2011, she gave birth to twins.
Moroccan and Monroe, her…
Long before Ruth E. Carter became one of Hollywood's most celebrated costume designers, she was a young girl in Springfield, Massachusetts, teaching herself to sew on her mother's old sewing machine at the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. She was the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother, and the odds of…

