Las Vegas fashion designer Dennaya Famous is from a city where gambling and bright lights rule the world and that electric energy is captured in her funky, fearless designs. Dennaya started her styling career just two years ago and within six months, she opened the vintage boutique, D. Fame. With a collection full of vintage…
Unless you have the luxury of working from home, looking your best at work is of the utmost importance. Some have flexible guidelines and only need to be groomed and presentable, while others must wear business attire day in and day out. It isn’t always easy to manage, especially on hot summer days when you…
From Vibe Vixen – Once Destiny Child called it quits in 2006, rumors have grown steadily about a riff between the group’s two most noticeable singers, Beyoncé Knowles and Kelly Rowland. Some of Kelly’s biggest fans believe Beyoncé and her team consistently collude with major industry players in order to make sure Kelly never reaches the…
When I first saw the headlines about Black men living longer lives in prison than they are able to do on the outside, my breath caught in my throat. I wondered, how could prison— with all of its gangs, violent inmates, exposure to diseases, and lack of services—possibly keep someone alive longer than they’d be…
Ladies, what’s the longest you’ve gone with a chip-and-smudge free manicure? For me, it’s about 5 days max, and that’s when I’m having a really good week. Manicures and pedicures are luxuries that women treat themselves to but it’s an unwritten law that we’ll have to maintain that luxury with a fresh mani/pedi within about…
A 61-year-old Colorado woman was arrested last week for allegedly groping a TSA agent as she attempted to go through an airport security checkpoint at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport. The woman, Yukari Mihamae, was reportedly “fed up” by the TSA’s new enhanced screening procedures, which allow agents to pat down travelers’ private areas in an…
There are few people in the world who can say they received millions of birthday wishes. But this morning millions of school children across South Africa sang a special Happy Birthday song in tribute of their country’s most esteemed icon. As he turns 93 today, Nelson Mandela, affectionately called “Madiba” by South African children, has…
Terry Richardson recently shot a spread featuring 11 plus size models for the unfortunately titled “Tons of Fun” spread in Vice’s Photography issue. The shoot features these women in seductive poses reportedly styled by themselves. The spread has a raw, unpolished edge with an excessive use of Flash and a set with a simplistic white…
Act like an ass, get to be in a movie telling women what’s wrong with them… I think Steve Harvey is a great comedian. And I think that his community work should be lauded. I also think something is seriously sad and lacking when you have thousands of women who look to that zoot suit…
Taking a cue from his wife, Beyonce, Jay-Z has roped in Frank Ocean to work on his upcoming solo project. The Odd Future crooner behind ‘4’’s “I Miss You” was in the studio last week working with Jay on new material that will be a part of the rapper’s next album alone. In a photo…
Tattoos are as much a form of personal expression as our style. From visually stimulating full arm sleeves to our little secret messages hidden from view, they say a lot about us and truly leave their mark, both literally and figuratively. Some of our favorite stars are “tatted up” from Rihanna to Lebron James and…
Back in the early 1990′s, you could not tell me that working at either McDonald’s or the local grocery store (where all the fine high school boys were employed) wouldn’t be the coolest thing ever to do as a teenager. My interest in ringing up McOrders came from this iconic commercial: Calvin’s life turned all the…
Both before and since the earthquake in Haiti, there has perhaps been no greater American advocate for the country’s revitalization than Bill Clinton. The former president likes to tell how he spent his honeymoon in Haiti and fell in love with the nation, its history and its people. After leaving the White House, Clinton served…
When news broke that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony were filing for divorce, reactions ranged from devastated to ambivalent. But while the couple’s personal woes made headlines, behind the scenes in Hollywood there was some worry that the couple’s split would mean bad news for their joint ventures. However, it seems whatever J….
“There’s always more joy to remember than things we want forget.” That was the line that passed through my head as I laid with my back pressed into my couch. It weighed on me heavier that it had the first time I heard it, sitting upright at a prayer meeting in a velvet plum lined…
