Wait, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a fashion line? I couldn't easily find anything about it online. Or is it just that she had started taking more of an interest in fashion and dressing well and getting nice clothes custom-made for herself? I'm genuinely intrigued.

This post kind of perplexes me, because Hillary says that the question of what happened to VB's implants can only have one answer, and that seems to be exactly the answer that VB is giving. I don't think she's playing coy or being mysterious or anything like that. What I got from her answers is that she is quite…

I'm more familiar with it as common spoken shorthand for "them".

That's exactly the one that struck me too.

I agree with you. The VF website actually makes it clear:

The background blurb for the shoot (here) says that Close's rule in relation to the make-up was:

What I read in coverage of this elsewhere was that some of the subjects wore make-up and some didn't, but they key thing was that they didn't get primped and styled and whatever at the shoot itself, and the images weren't digitally altered afterwards. So however they looked when they turned up, that's how the photo…

"Whenever American media hypes up a poc as beautiful, there are times when it feels disingenuous because of the beauty standards in our society."

Well, okay, probably you would have gotten less pushback if that's what you had said in the first place, instead of muddying the waters with the devil's advocacy. Honestly, sometimes saying just what you mean makes dialogue a lot simpler. But, reading your subsequent clarifications, I get you now, and I agree with…

Oh, honey. I know you are well intentioned, but this comment is an example of one of those most frustrating things I encounter on Jezebel when there are posts like this about the marginalization of women of colour (and black women in particular) as it relates to society's standards of beauty — the voices from the…

"her features are so exquisite that I honestly thought that it trumped her skin tone.

"Pretty for a black girl." "Pretty for a dark-skinned girl." "Dark, but pretty."

Yes, Dodai. Just yes.

Seriously, every time I see a picture of grown-up Michael B. Jordan, I'm like, "Oh, wait, I have to sit down." And then I'm like, "Oh, wait, I'm already sitting down. Well, damn, then I have to lie down." It's ridiculous how he sets my heart aflutter.

Oh, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Oh, oh, oh, Michael B. Jordan. *blisses out* Would have been awesome to have Lupita on the cover too, though.

Maybe because in the particular cultural context that the author, as a black woman, is writing from, Don Cheadle and Denzel Washington are more likely to come to mind as reference points for great acting than Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro?

"Yet these four walls also harbour a terrible secret. During almost half of its long history, the Cleland Plantation was home to 250 slaves, who lived and died in conditions of unimaginable brutality."

I'm from Barbados and there are plenty of Cumberbatches there - it's a common name, to the point that I was slightly confused when Benedict Cumberbatch started turning up on Jez and people were constantly making fun of how odd his surname sounded, because it was perfectly normal to me.

I love that video. Never heard of that group before, but the video makes me want so badly to be at that awesome all-girl party they're having. And it made me realize that it's been a while since I've had that experience of getting ready for a party with my girlfriends — I miss that.

Did anyone else instantly think of Barbara Kingsolver's novel Flight Behavior when they read the headline/article?