Tahirah Hairston
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Oscars Recap: 6 Things Everyone Should Be Talking About
Read Tahira's Oscars 2018 recap, from the best wins to the best speeches. → Read More
The 7 Best Things That Happened at the Grammys Last Night
Here's your 2018 Grammys recap, including 7 things you missed if you didn't watch. → Read More
How to Get Beach Waves With Natural Hair: A Surfer’s Guide
Let me start with the truth: I started surfing by mistake. About two years ago, I was invited to Rockaway Beach on a press-related surf retreat. Once I got over my fear of dying, I fell in love with the sport. When I decide that I’m into something I become a bit of an obsessive. … → Read More
How to Get Beach Waves With Natural Hair: A Surfer’s Guide
Let me start with the truth: I started surfing by mistake. About two years ago, I was invited to Rockaway Beach on a press-related surf retreat. Once I got over my fear of dying, I fell in love with the sport. When I decide that I’m into something I become a bit of an obsessive. … → Read More
Emmy Awards Recap: 11 Things Everyone is Talking About
Donald Trump jokes, satire and backhanded compliments took center stage again at the 69th Annual Emmy Awards. From award speeches to host Stephen Colbert’s hilarious opening monologue, (almost) everyone had something clever to say. The more memorable moments, though, were the stories of women and people of color getting their overdue recognition: Atlanta won two … → Read More
Tahirah Hairston
Tahirah Hairston is a style writer from Detroit who likes Susan Miller, Rihanna's friend's Instagram accounts, ramen and ugly-but cute shoes. → Read More
How this group is gearing up to stop the policing of black and brown girls in Trump’s America
“It’s more important now than ever to really, really center in on students of color." → Read More
How this group is gearing up to stop the policing of black and brown girls in Trump’s America
“It’s more important now than ever to really, really center in on students of color." → Read More
How this group is gearing up to stop the policing of black and brown girls in Trump’s America
“It’s more important now than ever to really, really center in on students of color,” Nia Evans told me. → Read More
How this group is gearing up to stop the policing of black and brown girls in Trump’s America
“It’s more important now than ever to really, really center in on students of color,” Nia Evans told me. → Read More
Viola Davis is finally saying what needed to be said about the problems with 'The Help'
It was 2011 when Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer were both nominated for Oscars for The Help. → Read More
Here’s how Black Twitter ‘celebrated’ Donald Trump’s inauguration
Not everyone wanted to watch Donald Trump become president on Friday. → Read More
Here's how Black Twitter 'celebrated' Donald Trump's inauguration
Not everyone wanted to watch Donald Trump become president on Friday. Instead, some people on Twitter began using the hashtags #InaugurationBlackout, #ObamaDay, and #ByAnyMeans to do something else: talk about Barack Obama's legacy and celebrate legendary black movies. → Read More
These queer activists found the most amazing way to protest Mike Pence's anti-LGBTQ bigotry
Last night, America’s soon-to-be vice president Mike Pence got quite the welcome party from some of his fiercest opponents in the LGBTQ community. → Read More
This new John Lewis documentary is the perfect way for Donald Trump to educate himself
In what couldn’t be more perfect timing, PBS has announced a new documentary focusing on civil rights leader and US House Representative John Lewis as a part of its Black History Month programming. → Read More
Steve Harvey’s defense of his alliance with Donald Trump is truly pathetic
Harvey was shocked that people did not like him teaming up with Donald Trump. → Read More
Queen Latifah just teased a 'Living Single' reboot and we are so excited
Television networks have been eager to revamp some of the most beloved sitcoms lately. → Read More
Queen Latifah just teased a 'Living Single' reboot and we are so excited
Television networks have been eager to revamp some of the most beloved sitcoms lately. Some of them are actually good (like One Day At A Time), some of them are hit-and-miss (like Gilmore Girls), and some of them are getting renewed for a second season…for some reason (like Fuller House). → Read More
That insanely misguided, racist Michael Jackson show won't be airing after all
In a not-too-surprising move, British network Sky Arts has decided to pull the plug on a wildly questionable episode from its upcoming anthology series Urban Myths, in which white person Joseph Fiennes portrays black person Michael Jackson as he goes on a road trip with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando. No matter how fair-skinned Jackson became in later life, this was still straight-up… → Read More
Natalie Portman reveals the startling truth about how the gender wage gap affected her
Natalie Portman is an Oscar-winning actress who is on track to be nominated (and possibly win) her second Academy Award for her performance in Jackie. → Read More