Until last spring, Nia Parker and the other kids in her neighborhood commuted to school on Bus 59. But as fuel prices rose, the school district needed to find a way to cut its transportation costs. So the schools busing company redrew its route map, eliminating Nias bus altogether. Now ...
Kasha had only been in her accommodation for three months. The landlord told Kasha that she did not want "someone like that" in her home.134 Pepe Julian Oziema, a human rights activist working with Sexual Minorities Uganda and recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award 2012, told Amnesty...
It became clear to her that John had been following the dating rules too. Soon after, Dilara had a new problem: “By this time, I used all of my learning of dating in this culture which said, ‘don’t say I love you, don’t do this, don’t do that, be very free, don’t ...
But Ga-in really pushed the envelope in terms of sexuality with her solo project, leading the music video for Bloom (피어나), to be banned. The lyrics compare her to a flower in bloom, a young woman discovering her sexuality. Unusually, the sexual elements aren...
I was able to put a name to the face—or, rather, a pseudonym. As was common at the time, Ernestine Eckstein didn’t use her real name in the movement. Ernestine appeared in another iconic photo—on the June 1966 cover ofThe Ladder, the Daughters of Bilitis magazine. She was the fir...
There's so much culture in Tampa. Whenever people think about Florida, they only think about Miami, but Tampa has so much talent. Labels, go to Tampa, there's talent there!" She closed out her speech with a powerful encouragement to eclectic Black girls who may not fit into societal box...
4.Scale back the amount of praise.“Instead of saying how great something is, just a pat-on-the-back and it’s over, start a conversation with the child about her work. ‘Look how you used the color red instead of green for the grass. Tell me about why you did that.’” ...
(read: knocked-up, newly jobless, and single at thirty-eight), she decides to leave Sierra Leone and surgeon Oscar DeVries, the baby’s cheating father who, despite his huge ego and surprisingly small member, had captured her heart.So Saffron turns in her backstage pass to the ...
Her story begins in a small New Jersey town where Lane was one of two Black students at her elementary school. When her family moved to Pennsylvania, the culture shock was life-changing. Eager to extend that experience, Lane attended Virginia State University, a historically Black ...
Hannah Jackson is a fashion writer at Vogue, where she covers celebrity style, trends, and occasionally culture. Her work has also appeared in Elle, The Cut, Architectural Digest, Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone, W, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn. TopicsKim Kardashian Vogue Daily newslet...