22-year-old Karmenife Paulino was raped during her freshman year at Wesleyan College. The assault colored the rest of her college experience, destroying a place she’d
On Friday, Ebony Magazine revealed their groundbreaking March 2016 cover, featuring four full-figured black women; designer and style blogger Gabi Gregg, known professionally as Gabifresh,
The fashion industry seems determined to celebrate cornrows on everyone BUT black women. But Vogue Spain made a statement by featuring Ivorian-British model Aya Jones
Nigerian-American events producer Mrs. Dunnie Oh had the internet giving a collective gasp of cuteness when she posted this picture of her and her daughter
Lip injections, hip and butt injection, cornrows, tanning — all of these things are becoming increasingly popular among non-black American women. And yet black women,
Yesterday we posted the first movie poster for the upcoming Nina Simone biopic starring Zoe Saldana. The poster wasn’t great, and now the trailer for
A Nina Simone biographical film starring Zoe Saldana has been in the works for several years. The film has been beset with schedule setbacks, legal
On February 23, the New York Times profiled Georg Friedrich Haas, a 62-year-old Austrian composer and Columbia University professor whose works have been commissioned by
Go’on get it then Omarion! Mr O, who normally wears his hair in a tapered undefined fro, took things to the next level with a
It all began when 26-year-old beauty blogger Nadia Gray saw an advertisement for Maybelline’s matte foundations, featuring supermodel Jourdan Dunn. The self-described “product junkie” immediately
Draya Michele recently shot a cover for Hawaii-based DisFunkshion magazine sporting a brand new look. The reality star’s clothing looked African-inspired (although it clearly pulls
Beyonce’s Formation is the pop culture gift that keeps on giving. It’s spawned a Super Bowl performance, a slew of think pieces, a fair amount
This is Danielle ‘Jazz’ Noel, a pre-med Columbia student and photographer whose work focuses on capturing hip-hop culture. On February 16, Elite Daily uploaded a
What part of the game is this?? Model Leomie Anderson tweeted this picture of a weave she was given for a New York Fashion Week
