Jennifer Lynn Lopez is (rightfully, finally) being honored at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards on Monday night with the annual Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, which celebrates a distinguished artist’s career milestones and achievements. (Recent past recipients include Pink, Rihanna, and Beyoncé.) Having attended numerous times since 1998, J.Lo has been responsible not only…
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On August 10, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg took her judicial oath at the White House, becoming the first Jewish woman and only the second woman justice ever appointed to the Supreme Court. Today she celebrates 25 years on the bench—a major milestone in a career that has turned her into a proud defender of women’s…
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I consider myself relatively confident. I’m strong-willed and opinionated. I go on dates without a lingering fear of rejection, and I really only have a few things I’m irrationally afraid of. Fainting during hot yoga is one of them; going through the wrong checkout line at Whole Foods is another (don’t even try to act…
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I was lying in bed on a recent Saturday morning when my dad called me yelling about something that’s long been a sore spot between us. “Why did you go over the limit of your credit card?! Did someone steal it? What’s going on?!” he screamed. I did a quick mental scan—this was the card…
Read moreI was 11 when I started relaxing my hair. My family had just moved to Houston and knowing that the humidity levels would be outrageous, my mom thought it’d make my hair easier to style. Like most black girls, I hated perm days. I sat there patiently, lying to the beautician when she’d ask if…
Read moreThe beauty—and absurdity—of the internet lies in its ability to rile people up in such a way that the drama of the day can be reduced to one tweet with no context. One I saw last night: “Black Mirror: Skin Care” and I knew exactly what the author was referring to. A story published on…
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